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Sarah Atlee, Dusted,
Jacketed, 2011, Acrylic
on wood, 29x17”
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Oklahoma City artist Sarah Atlee paints primarily with acrylics. She enjoys their versatility, the textures they create, and the endless options of implementation, be it via a wash, a glaze, or impasto application. Utilizing the quick-drying advantage of acrylic, Atlee layers infinite colors and textures to create her works.
Atlee’s piece for the Concept/OK exhibition, Dusted, Jacketed, employs layers of “personal memories, imagery pulled
from magazine pictures, found paper and fabric,” and of course acrylic paint,
on a wood panel. The abstract work features deep blues, greens and reds
highlighted with whites, yellows, and pinks. The piece was inspired from a
“conversational seed” while Atlee was living in Indiana some years ago. In
2002, the IU Art Museum hosted a retrospective of Bill Blass, an illustrious
fashion designer from the mid-20th century. The piece that inspired
the conversation was a jacket composed of silk flowers. According to Atlee, she and
her friends deliberated, what would the jacket look like “if someone allowed it
to get all dusty? Would it become a dust jacket?”
Atlee considers herself to be “a complex and biased filter of
information.” Absorbing “words, sounds, images, and experiences from everything
[she] comes into contact with,” Atlee processes what is relevant and discards
what is not. What remains is a combination of instances that fascinate her,
which make “intuitive, unexpected connections.” By combining this “variety of
source imagery and found materials,” Atlee arranges them into collages, and synthesizes
this collection of visual information into her paintings.
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