Sarah Kahn

Blue Moon

Dimensions: 19″ x 25″ (Framed)
Private Collection

Sarah Kahn – Artist Statement
Mixed Media Collage

As a collage artist, I enjoy the cutting, the pasting, and above all I find deep meaning in creating a whole from parts.  I work largely in acrylics, and incorporate imagery from my sketchbook entries, and from observational drawings.  I work with a variety of art materials, which allows me the freedom and pleasure to pull in particular characteristics from colored pencils, oil pastels, carbon paper, gel plate prints, etc.

Since 2001, I have gravitated to abstract imagery. It has the power to direct our focus inward, inviting us to find sensorial response. Forms, lines, textures and planes of color asks the onlooker to indulge in personal narratives, and unconscious experiences.

Abstract, or non-representational art seems accessible in ways that representational or figurative art is not. I often notice that my pieces bring interpretations in the form of nouns. Attaching nouns and stories to the artwork can serve to organize our thoughts as we make meaning out the abstracted imagery in my artwork.

As I near the completion of a piece, it is the composition that comes into deeper focus. I want to give thought to where I am offering directives for the onlooker’s eye, where I feel the “statements” and meaning are lodged, and might be augmented.