gouache on paper-board panel
5" x 7"
digital prints on paper
each piece 5" x 5"
gouache and digital ink on paper-board panels,
dimensions variable
"Surgery
Light Still Life 1", 2003
gouache and ink on paper
14" x 11"
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1 ", 2003 gouache on paper-board panel 5" x 7" |
"Surgery
(frames 7-10 shown)", 2003 digital prints on paper each piece 5" x 5" |
"Metastatic
Explorer series", 2003 gouache and digital ink on paper-board panels, dimensions variable |
"Surgery
Light Still Life 1", 2003 |
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Artist Statement
I view socio-economic development as being similar to biological exchanges and metabolisms--as a dynamic, living tissue. Much like plants have a consciousness enough to unfurl, propogate, and recover from damage; landscapes, observed over time, can reveal the mineralization (in the form of architecture and environment) and energy shifts occurring due to the flux of socio-economic transactions.
The landscape data or "fossiling" that attracts me the most are those that bear a resemblance to cancerous activity. All cancer tissue in the body originates as healthy, normal cells. By the process of mutation, these normal cells lose their ability to self-terminate. Initially, these cells group together to form a tumor. Unable to borrow from its normal-celled neighboring tissue, the tumor must eventually grow its own vessel system to obtain a supply of oxygen.
My aim is to document this confusion between normal and abnormal systems that coexist in our current landscape. Referring to maps and aerial photos, I plot the sites either as frame sequences (several different views of a site) or by time layering (same site but several layers of data from different time periods). Organs and structures begin to emerge--copper mines like red-cell-producing spleens, stadium arenas like lymph nodes, explorer routes like tumors developing a circulatory system, and so forth. I hope to provide a vehicle in which to view historical information not in a linear context, but as tangible tissues and organs in a constant state of flux.
Sarah Trigg
May 2004
Sarah Trigg
Education
| 1995 | Cornell University, College of Architecture, Art and Planning, Bachelor of Fine Arts |
Selected Exhibitions
| 2003 | Group
show, Unframed First Look, curated by Peter Halley, Sue Williams, Ross Bleckner;
Lehmann Maupin, NY, NY Group show, Some Are Painting II, curated by David Gibson, Educational Alliance Gallery, NY, NY |
| 2002 | Group
show, In Pursuit of Visual Pleasures, curated by Waqas Wajahat, Dumbo Arts
Center (DAC), Brooklyn, NY Group show, Winter Auction, Dumbo Arts Center (DAC), Brooklyn, NY Group show, Yourself: Autoritratto, curated by Stefano Pasquini, Sesto Senso, Bologna, Italy Group show, Editions Project, curated by Mark Shunney, Brooklyn Front Gallery, NY, NY |
| 2001 | Group
show, Politics and Justice, curated by Marco Mango and Stefano Pasquini,
Festival de l'Unita' di Modena, Modena, Italy Group show, Traveling Exhibition, curated by Nicoletta West of Gretel's_FILE, Zurich, Switzerland Group show, Mint, curated by Mark Shunney, Brooklyn Front, Brooklyn, NY Group show, SUK 2, curated by Stefano Pasquini, Sesto Senso, Bologna, Italy Group show, Digital 2001: Our Sci-Tech World, Arts and Science Collaborations (ASCI), New York Hall of Science, Queens, NY |
| 2000 | Group
show, Gretel's_FILE at Penzenstadler and Schaller Architekten, curated by
Nicoletta West, Zurich, Switzerland Group show, Duchamp Traveling Exhibition, curated by Abraham Lubelski, exhibited at the Venice Biennale 2001, Italy Group show, Winter Paper, Catherine Moore Fine Art, NY, NY Group show, Hit and Run 4, curated by Ed Winkleman, Pier 40, NY, NY Group show, Out Side In, Catherine Moore Fine Art, NY, NY |
| 1999 | Group show, The Presumption of Innocence, Rush Arts, NY, NY |
| 1998 | Two-person show, Untitled, Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Berkshire Artisans Gallery, Pittsfield, MA |
| 1997 | Group show, The Long Hot Summer Part 2, Aljira Gallery, Newark, NJ |
| 1996 | Group show, The Tool Show, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland, OR |
Projects/ Flat Files
| 2004 | Flat
Files, Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Selected Artist, Online Curated Registry, White Columns, New York, NY |
| 2003 | Selected Artist, The Viewing Program, The Drawing Center, New York, NY |
| 2002 | Flat
Files, Panorama_City at Staub Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland Flat Files, LFL Gallery, New York, NY |
Reviews/Published Works
Omnivorous Practices: Recent American
Urbanism, Julio Salcedo, Arquitectura: Revista de Arquitectura, May 2004, Arquitectura
COAM Press Madrid, Spain.
New Territory (Portfolio: Sarah Trigg), Karen Steen, Metropolis, New York, April
2004, pg. 82.
Portfolio: Paintings of Sarah Trigg, Karen Steen, www.metropolis.com, New York,
April 2004, (www.metropolismag.com/html/content_0404/prt/).
Exploratory (Sarah Trigg, 2000, gouache and ink on paper, 11"x14"),
Gathering of the Tribes, Issue 10 2003, pg. 10.
Digital 2001: Our Sci-Tech World, Art and Science Collaborations, Inc. (www.asci.org),
2001, (www.asci.org/digital2001/trigg/trigg.htm)
Out Side In, Stefano Pasquini, New York Arts Magazine, July/August 2000, pg.
65.
Selected Collections
Philip Isles
Bob Tuttle and Maria Hummer
Contact
Information
Sarah Trigg
sarahtrigg@earthlink.net