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RECENT / UPCOMING:
Touch Grass, Nancy Margolis Gallery
October 15 – December 6, 2024
Nancy Margolis Gallery is thrilled to announce Sarah Pater: Touch Grass, our debut solo exhibition for the Philadelphia artist opening next month in our Online Viewing Room. Touch Grass explores the tension between physical and virtual experiences. For Pater, the title holds a double meaning — conveying both the literal act of touching grass to reconnect with nature and its use as internet slang to suggest stepping away from the digital world for a reality check.
In this new body of work, I've been combining images of skies, insects/animals, nature, and still life with images that evoke the undersea cables that comprise the physical internet. I've been trying to imagine what these undersea cables that impact everything about modern life look like. There are very few photographs of the cables, and I thought that made them good subjects for painting — an opportunity for abstraction and invention while simultaneously referring to something literal/physical. — Sarah Pater
margolis@nancymargolisgallery.com @nancymargolisgallery
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PAST:
Here, Before and After Me: Xingze Li and Sarah Pater, Yi Gallery, New York
April 13 – May 11, 2024
A two-person exhibition by Brooklyn-based Xingze Li and Philadelphia-based Sarah Pater. Opening reception will be held on Saturday, April 13 from 3 - 6 pm. Please direct inquires to info@gallery-yi.com.
Featuring new work by both artists, this exhibition highlights the formal and conceptual dialogue between Li’s photo sculptures and Pater’s paintings. Imbuing mundane subjects with significance, the artists closely study surfaces and experiences that simultaneously embody and reflect light. Their explorations of the everyday share a focus on the minutiae of ordinary experiences, blurring the aesthetics of boredom and attention. The compositions’ first-person view works to activate one’s visual experience, bringing the viewer into the meticulously constructed tableaux: marks on a wall, paper flying in a sudden gust of wind, a glass of water, flat digital screens, and an exposed fluorescent bulb rendered sublime. The experience of “looking” has changed in our daily existence, becoming more passive and disembodied in an image-saturated culture. The artists are interested in reclaiming the tactility of looking–an embodied and active experience in our perceptual world. Featuring new work by both artists, this exhibition highlights the formal and conceptual dialogue between Li’s photo sculptures and Pater’s paintings. Imbuing mundane subjects with significance, the artists closely study surfaces and experiences that simultaneously embody and reflect light. Their explorations of the everyday share a focus on the minutiae of ordinary experiences, blurring the aesthetics of boredom and attention. The compositions’ first-person view works to activate one’s visual experience, bringing the viewer into the meticulously constructed tableaux: marks on a wall, paper flying in a sudden gust of wind, a glass of water, flat digital screens, and an exposed fluorescent bulb rendered sublime. The experience of “looking” has changed in our daily existence, becoming more passive and disembodied in an image-saturated culture. The artists are interested in reclaiming the tactility of looking–an embodied and active experience in our perceptual world.
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Pablo’s Birthday at Untitled Art Fair, Miami Beach
December 6 – 10, 2023
Mona Ardeleanu, Lena Christakis, Eckart Hahn, Sarah Pater, Emily Pettigrew, and Mai Ta
︎ Wall Street Journal: Untitled Art Review: An Exuberant Fair in Miami Beach
︎ Wall Street Journal: Untitled Art Review: An Exuberant Fair in Miami Beach
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Online viewing room
Pablo’s Birthday participated in the 12th edition of Untitled Art Miami Beach 2023 with a booth concept dissecting the aesthetics of surrealism in the 21st Century. Alongside one another– Mona Ardeleanu, Lena Christakis, Eckart Hahn, Sarah Pater, Emily Pettigrew, and Mai Ta walk a fine line between reality and reverie. This collective of artists explores surrealist discourse and aesthetic concepts that seem to question reality. With their dreamlike depictions, uncanny imagery, and exploration of perception, they invite their witnesses to question the fine line between the real and the dream. Each artist's unique perspective and practice serve as a testament to the enduring relevance of surrealism’s place in the contemporary dialogue.
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Pablo’s Birthday participated in the 12th edition of Untitled Art Miami Beach 2023 with a booth concept dissecting the aesthetics of surrealism in the 21st Century. Alongside one another– Mona Ardeleanu, Lena Christakis, Eckart Hahn, Sarah Pater, Emily Pettigrew, and Mai Ta walk a fine line between reality and reverie. This collective of artists explores surrealist discourse and aesthetic concepts that seem to question reality. With their dreamlike depictions, uncanny imagery, and exploration of perception, they invite their witnesses to question the fine line between the real and the dream. Each artist's unique perspective and practice serve as a testament to the enduring relevance of surrealism’s place in the contemporary dialogue.