2022 brought about great personal change for Artist Sarah More. The artist's natural tendency toward reflection - turning over events, puzzling the metaphors of cause and effect, pinpointing intersections of time and space - have moved her process to an almost alchemical abstraction of patterns, symbols and colors.
Each work in the exhibition marks a time of change experienced by the artist. Though the works are extremely complex and laborious to create, they represent just a split second in time, while leaving a lasting puzzle of color and shape for the eye.
Growing up, More was surrounded by her mother’s handmade quilts and her father’s massive collection of rocks and minerals. She sites these items as the seeds of her creative practice - a practice further informed by the works of Geometric Abstractionists and Bauhaus Designers - Sonia Delaunay (originally named Sarah as well), Anni Albers, and Gunta Stölzl.
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“The work in this show is the culmination of these moments that created great change in my life and artistic practice. My work has always been a place of solace for me - a place where I ruminate on life events, and escape into an abstract reality that brings comfort and exhilaration.”
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Walking Meditations
More's abstract compositions are inspired by daily walks, during which she absorbs the present through the shapes and patterns she encounters - both natural and manmade."Walking allows me an opportunity to clear my head while taking in my surroundings. Stairways, crosswalks, windows, flowers, puddles, and trash crash together in front of me. When I return to the studio, I redraw these disparate parts from memory and photographs, distilling them even further into their most basic, abstract forms," states More. -
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Installation Images
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The Scale of Things
The Making of a Meta MuralThough the circumstances alluded to in BEFORE & AFTER are largely personal, an important practical shift occurred in the artist’s practice with the opportunity to create a mural for Meta’s Open Air Arts Program. Prior to the mural, much of More’s work was gouache on paper at an intimate scale.
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Press & Events
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The Jealous Curator features Sarah More's Before & After
February 23, 2023 -
BEFORE & AFTER | Virtual Walk Through & Artist Talk
Meet Artist Sarah More 5 March 2023Join us for a virtual walk through of the BEFORE & AFTER online exhibition and meet Artist Sarah More from her home studio in Seattle. Sunday March 5th at 11am...
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