Sabrina Piersol

Region: MFA Annual

Website: http://www.sabrinapiersol.com

City / State: San Diego, CA

 Collapsing inner and outer vision onto canvas, Sabrina Piersol investigates the value of the fragment as it relates to Archaic Greek, sapphic poetry through her environmental paintings. These works raise questions around desire, temporality, and speculative extrapolation by negotiating conceptual inquiry and visual logic. Piersol intends for her paintings to be accessible in their abstraction through combining explicit allusions to the natural world with purely abstract forms via a singular, cohesive painting language that prioritizes bold color and melodic composition. Silent deserts, sparkling topography, and bodily florals remain rich references for the artist. Each piece is an invitation to envision the alternate pasts and possible futures that simultaneously exist within each of us.