Sarah Faux

The largest piece in the show, this giant diptych burns with fiery reds and glowing magentas. In this wide, horizontal format body forms appear as a landscape against a stark white background - a hand and a hammer or a jagged mountain top and craggy rocks? The large shapes in the foreground are super fresh and transparent, a huge arm stretching across the top from left to right, holding the butt of a hammer that's being ecstatically driven into butt cheeks. Drips abound in this energetic piece, heaving with motion. Looking within the space between large arm and small of back, a face presents itself from within a shadow, smeared with reds and greens and glancing right at you. The face belongs to a curving body, mimicking her giant double, right arm raised behind her back, hammer head jammed between cheeks.

Sarah Faux

Little trouble girl, 2023

Oil on canvas in two (2) parts

238.8 x 345.4 x 3.8 cm
94 x 136 x 1 1/2 in

In Little trouble girl (2023), what presents as a vibrant pull of red reveals a person performing for her own reflection. Hammers regularly occur in Faux's work, sometimes as euphemism...

Exhibitions

Sweetbitter, Hales New York, USA, 2023

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