Sarah West
My paintings depict hybridized spaces in vivid colors, alternately
fragmenting and coalescing. I consider play and discovery
important components of both the execution of the painting
and the viewer’s experience with it. I position my viewer as an
explorer and navigator roaming through various spaces
coexistent within a single composition, addressing the potential
for fluidity between the material and the virtual.
This series combines references to Early Renaissance painting
with digital symbols and software references. By pairing sacred
narratives with digital symbols, the work suggests the spiritual
undercurrents within digital technology, in its potential for
enlightenment, transcendence, and evocation of the infinite.
Emphasizing the role of painting as portal, the work points to
our persistent desire to be transported by visual means.