Sara Genn is a Canadian-born artist known for her use of color and form in her geometric abstract compositions. She graduated with a BFA from Queen’s University at Kingston, Ontario, and exhibits her work internationally. Genn utilizes soaking and staining techniques in an effort to shift our perceptions of the traditions of painting. Her work also strives to offer simultaneously, a place of visual shelter and excitement and to occupy space with objects that blur the signifiers of gender, craft and monuments. As much as these works seek to embody colorfield foundations and to straddle the ineffable sensations of weightiness and weightlessness, they're also concerned with tactile materiality and surface illusions. The super-flatness of saturated void spaces and their edges are meticulously created freehand without digital or mechanical aids: no projection, resist or tape is used. "People think that design is merely about how things look but really, it’s about how things function. We may understand this importance in the context of machines and technology, but the same qualities should be required of all things, especially art. Paintings are made to engage, incite and connect, but they also have the chance to quietly work within the perfection of their own archaic technology." - Sara Genn
b. 1972, Toronto, Canada
b. 1972, Toronto, Canada