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Sarah Faux

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  • Sarah Faux, Other romances, 2024
    Other romances, 2024
  • Sarah Faux, Dream pop, 2023
    Dream pop, 2023
  • Sarah Faux, Pink boy, 2024
    Pink boy, 2024
  • Sarah Faux, Flush, 2023
    Flush, 2023
  • Sarah Faux, XO, 2023
    XO, 2023
  • Sarah Faux, In and in and in, 2022
    In and in and in, 2022
  • A peaceful palette, like a soft grassy lawn with pools of fleshy corals and pinks. Prominent thumbs in the foreground are more rendered and spring forward. A grayish thumb cups a warmer one, as both hold a glowing breast like form. This orb is encircled by a third thumb resting gently atop the pile. A mass of jumbled hands appears again above, slightly more sorted. Oil stick lines delineate two hands gripping a breast with an erect nipple, a small echo of the action below. These hands are surrounded by shadows, several layers of transparent blue, magenta and black poured like a curtain. When squinting, the painting feels less literal, like rolling hills and a storm cloud. The marks are direct and quick, a mix of brushwork, scrapes and drawn lines, accumulating densely at times, leaving drips all in their wake.
    How do you know what love is, 2022
  • Sarah Faux, Peach pinch, 2022
    Peach pinch, 2022
  • Sarah Faux, Morning beautiful, 2022
    Morning beautiful, 2022
  • Sarah Faux, A jealous fire, 2022
    A jealous fire, 2022
  • Sarah Faux, Solitary hunter, 2022
    Solitary hunter, 2022
  • A mid-size painting with a wild palette – greens, pinks, blues, reds, purples and a brown so deep it's almost black. In the foreground, bottom right, hovers a brushy green breast, hinting at a body from a first person perspective, a woman looking down. With time, one might interpret the piece as an abstracted image of this body squatting, stepping upon her own reflection. Or, one could travel through the piece following winding oil stick scribbles, which begin low, gather in the center and splinter towards the top. These quick marks describe arms, thighs, the mysterious butt of a hammer... Then, top center, a small foot steps on its own bottom, vibrating as the lines that describe it shiver out of sync with its shapes. Just to the side, an acidic green face is hiding, an ear and part of a blue eye creeping out, looking at you.
    Green screen, 2022
  • A tall canvas composed of swooping motion and contrasting diagonals. A streak of crimson down the left side and across the bottom frame an inset brighter zone, filled with lines, imagery and washy poolwater blue. This dreamy zone is cut with a large sharp shape, painted economically with shadows that make it pop into vivid three dimensions. The shape could be the top of a hammer, the turned leg of a wooden chair or the familiar stretched fabric of pulled-down panties observed from above. Through a hole in the shape, a small cartoonish face calls out, one closed eye, little nostrils and an open mouth with distinctly pink, parted lips. Whatever noise she's emitting travels through the painting, reverberating in hidden body parts - a hand gripping crotch, foot curling backwards. All the while a wall of drips giving the images a sense of sliding downwards as it rises up.
    Voices carry, 2022
  • In this vertical piece, slippery colors form a watery background, dripping into each other and appearing almost woven. Two hands guide us into this abstract interior, one large one climbing up from below, one smaller down from above. Each has its pointer finger hooked under a black string, the net. Drawn directly with dark oil stick lines, this skinny net spreads in a chain-link pattern, contorting to bodily curves it encircles upon its way. A process driven, less representational piece within the group, this painting hints at feminine curves (an ass, an elbow) that were painted then scraped over with pale greens and purples. The foreground shifts to an earthier palette, and as if seen through mist here our doubled bodies reflect earth and sky.
    Safety net, 2022
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