ArtSpace Gallery exhibit – Collage paintings by 莎拉·迪普雷

莎拉·迪普雷 is a non-objective abstract artist who grew up in South Central Louisiana and moved to 伊利诺斯州 in 2015. Dupré received her BFA from McNeese State University, 查尔斯湖, LA (2015) and her MFA from Northern 伊利诺斯州 University, 迪卡尔布, IL (2018). 使用石墨, 木炭, tar and influence from industrial processes, Sarah’s work is an execution of drawing, 绘画和拼贴. Her work exposes gestures and reconfigured layers that honor the relationship of erosion and liberation.

Dupré’s interest is steeped in the infrastructure of the American landscape and psyche of diverse collectives. The artist’s practice is an ongoing observation of the inevitable, 再生, cyclical cycle of decay and regrowth. In addition to Dupré’s personal studio, selected works can be found through Boccara Art, 迈阿密, FL, 工作室6 f, 芝加哥, IL, 最后一个车间, 芝加哥, IL. 莎拉·迪普雷 is a board member of Purple Window Gallery, 芝加哥, and an upcoming resident at Pouch Cove, 纽芬兰和拉布拉多, 加拿大(2024.) Her work was most recently published in 新美国绘画, No. 155, 中西部的问题, and will have work appear on an upcoming Apple TV series that will be announced later this year.

“Out the Cut” exhibits the artist’s influence from the stains seeping out of a manmade industrial landscape. Adopting a graphic approach that teeter-totters between reaction and response, Dupré draws inspiration from “rational” manufacturing and observes the irony of “reason.”

Visually, the artist is guided by oil rig lines running through the horizon of coastal waterways. She follows trails of construction deposits that trace their way down overpasses, and her lens gazes at flooding roads, back-alley canals and quick-set patchwork executed by city officials. She is directed by way of lubricated railroad iron, oxidized motor oil and plumes of diesel exhaust barreling out of tractors sowing the land. Dupré’s work is a rearranged record (sometimes literally and sometimes metaphorically) of a landscape built by her forebears. Distilling excerpts of an environment that is deceptively grounded in civic virtue, her work embraces marks of power and marks of abandonment and holds witness to their relationship of an unending poem of what was, 是什么，可能是什么.