Sarah Delaney
lives and works in Vancouver, BC.
CV
At first glance, the splashes of color evoke a decidedly organic palette. Like pools of forest water, or the glint of myriad autumn leaves, each canvas swirls with the hues of nature that the artist sees every day. On closer examination, however, each colorfield is linked, pierced, and surrounded by delicate markings that form a web of intricate connections throughout. Flitting through this network, the viewer is nearly lost in the dense layers only to step back and witness the minutiae coalesce into a dynamic whole.
Sarah Delaney is a multi-disciplinary artist, working and living in Vancouver, BC. She received her BFA in Visual Art from the University of Victoria, and her Diploma of Interior Design from the Vancouver College of Art and Design. Her work has been exhibited across North America, notably the Toronto Art Fair, and the NYC Art on Paper Fair.
CV
At first glance, the splashes of color evoke a decidedly organic palette. Like pools of forest water, or the glint of myriad autumn leaves, each canvas swirls with the hues of nature that the artist sees every day. On closer examination, however, each colorfield is linked, pierced, and surrounded by delicate markings that form a web of intricate connections throughout. Flitting through this network, the viewer is nearly lost in the dense layers only to step back and witness the minutiae coalesce into a dynamic whole.
Sarah Delaney is a multi-disciplinary artist, working and living in Vancouver, BC. She received her BFA in Visual Art from the University of Victoria, and her Diploma of Interior Design from the Vancouver College of Art and Design. Her work has been exhibited across North America, notably the Toronto Art Fair, and the NYC Art on Paper Fair.
Sarah Delaney | Moving | 2021 | Acrylic paint, pastel, graphite on canvases, torn and sewn, framed with Canadian Maple | 37.25 x 51 in. (framed)
"I’ve always wanted my work to read like an experience or a distant memory. My work consists of layers, made up of small and large abstracted markings and small colour fields, that together produce a larger feeling. I pull these markings from everyday patterns and textures I find in the world. Simply put: I equate this process to read the way a run-on sentence might present itself or a scene might unfold.
Over the past couple of months, my studio practice has gone through a period of new discovery and I’ve been creating work that is less layered, giving more focus to isolated shapes and markings. New work where visual markings are less calculated, but instead emphasis is placed on the action of creation. In doing so I hope the viewer can trace the path of creation and may experience the emotion that was put into the work.
I look forward to pushing my studio practice and exploring where this small pivot takes me." (Sarah Delaney about her new body of work, 2021)
Over the past couple of months, my studio practice has gone through a period of new discovery and I’ve been creating work that is less layered, giving more focus to isolated shapes and markings. New work where visual markings are less calculated, but instead emphasis is placed on the action of creation. In doing so I hope the viewer can trace the path of creation and may experience the emotion that was put into the work.
I look forward to pushing my studio practice and exploring where this small pivot takes me." (Sarah Delaney about her new body of work, 2021)
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SARAH DELANEY
shares her thoughts on the COVID-19 situation from Vancouver, BC. March 21, 2020 |
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Past exhibition at Mónica Reyes Gallery (formerly BGP)
The Casual Effect (2017)
In The Causal Effect, her first exhibition at Mónica Reyes Gallery (formerly Back Gallery Project) a dual exhibition with Reneé Lee Smith, Both Sides Now, Delaney continues her investigation into the temporal qualities of two-dimensional space. By methodically layering and combining various marks and areas of color, Delaney creates a visual conversation that invokes a subtle narrative while also alluding to her meditative process. Although they borrow compositionally from the fervor of action painting, Delaney’s works belie an intricate amalgamation of gestural strokes and forms, colours, and lines that the artist observes in her day-to-day.
