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art online: April 2020

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Two of my meditation drawings are included in Deep Blue See, an exhibition curated by Krista Scenna of Ground Floor Gallery in Park Slope, Brooklyn in partnership with Prevent Child Abuse America to raise awareness for Child Abuse Prevention Month during the month of April. [edit to update: show has been extended through June 1, 2020] I appreciate the gallery pointing out how work toward preventing child abuse is more important than ever at a time when people are staying home — home is not safe for everyone.

10% of sales from this exhibition will directly benefit Prevent Child Abuse America.

You can view the exhibition on Artsy:
> artsy.net/show/ground-floor-gallery-deep-blue-see-an-exhibition-for-child-abuse-prevention-month-2020

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An oil painting from all the way back in 2014 is included in the Spring Flash Showroom by the Equity Gallery in lower Manhattan. It takes imagery from the architecture along the canal that runs through downtown Indianapolis, IN during my time studying painting at the Herron School of Art + Design.

This online sale runs for one week from April 10 – 17th. [edit to update: show has been extended through April 30, 2020.]

You can view the exhibition on the NYAE website, or Artsy.
> nyartistsequity.org/the-spring-flash-showroom/lynnette-sauer-after-a-walk
> artsy.net/show/equity-gallery-the-new-york-artists-equity-spring-flash

perfect in weakness

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Some details from a recently commissioned diptych:

+ a work in progress view on instagram

(details)
Perfect in Weakness, diptych, 36×24″, ink on paper/acrylic on paper, 2019

While working on the painting portion of this piece, I considered the way that small pieces (of the composition, of life) can feel out of place or broken, especially when observed from a place that is close-up and contained. With a more spacious point of view, there can be a perfection in observing the way things fit together that wasn’t previously apparent.

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Meditation as Visual Thinking

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  • Meditation XIX (the return of the repressed) – after Louise Bourgeois,
    ink on paper, 18×24″, 2019

This drawing is 19th in a series of textual meditations I’ve been making since 2014, and was selected to be part of the exhibition Visual Thinking at the Ronald L. Barr Gallery at Indiana University Southeast. Methodical and meditative, these drawings have proven a constant over the past five years, and I imagine will continue to be so in the years to come.

I first saw this phrase of Louise Bourgeois’ in an exhibition at MoMA which include, among many books, paintings, and sculptures spanning her career, the fabric book Ode à l’oubli. (Here‘s a photo of her piece in the exhibition Louise Bourgeois: An Unfolding Portrait.) Her prolific body of work fascinated me, and her mantra offers hope that I too might return to openness from areas of repression.

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provided we stay brave

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My friend commissioned these pieces as a gift for her husband; the text was excerpted from Wendell Berry’s poem, “The Country of Marriage“. Though I’ve been putting meditative text drawings and abstract/non-representational pieces next to each other for a couple of years now, this is the first time I’ve created a pair specifically to fit together rather than combining them after the fact. A small opportunity to practice conversation between these two ways of working.

provided we stay brave | Lynnette Therese Sauer

III.
Sometimes our life reminds me
of a forest in which there is a graceful clearing
and in that opening a house,
an orchard and garden,
comfortable shades, and flowers
red and yellow in the sun, a pattern
made in the light for the light to return to.
The forest is mostly dark, its ways
to be made anew day after day, the dark
richer than the light and more blessed,
provided we stay brave
enough to keep on going in.

–Wendell Berry, The Country of Marriage

provided we stay brave | LTS