The Books and Records Show: Sarah Cromarty, Opening Reception FREE January 20, 2007

Free

The Books and Records Show
January 20, 2007–February 17, 2007

In the gallery's Annex, sixspace presents the The Books and Records Show by Los Angeles-based Sarah Cromarty...

Sarah Cromarty's work deals with the displacement of traditional notions of painting and sculpture, figure/ground relationships, and the authentic and the copy. In The Books and Records Show she is playing with illusory space of two-dimensional objects (vintage architectural books, nature books, and album covers) by making them three-dimensional. Cromarty achieves this by removing, replacing, revealing, and adding elements to these objects - this playing with spatial relations concepts of depicted images enhances the overall understanding of the picture. This exhibition also furthers the artist's ongoing interest with the three-dimensional by incorporating an installation-based approach. By using pedestals and custom-holders designed as extensions of the art, Cromarty integrates the work even more into our physical space.

The basis of Cromarty's books are mainly interior living room images taken from architectural books from the 1960s and 1970s but also include animal imagery from nature books. These books act as a precursor and way to inform her larger paintings - her new series of record covers are a further extension of that exploration. The albums are selected either for their humorous content, such as Neil Diamond posting on the beach for Jonathon Livingston Seagull, or for their nostalgic pseudo-spiritual aura like the hippie children standing on leaves in front of a forest on the Allman Brothers Band album "Brothers and Sisters."

Sarah Cromarty received her BFA (with distinction) from the Art Center School of Design in 2005. The same year she was included in the first annual L.A.Weekly Biennial State of Emergence: Unsuspected Cracks in the Art World Infrastructure curated by Doug Harvey and was selected as an Artist in Residence for the Cultural Service of the Consulate General of France. Her work has also been exhibited at sixspace and Rental Gallery in Los Angeles and Bucket Rider in Chicago. Her work has been reviewed in the Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, and Artnet Magazine. Cromarty will be showing at sixspace again this June in a collaborative exhibition with Salvatore Salomone.

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Official Website: http://www.sixspace.com/gallery/pr-cromarty2007/pressrelease.php