| ARTIST BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH: | Artist Sarah Nordean explores repetitive mark making through painting and drawing. Her structured panels contain strangely controlled and yet free flowing lines that seem to vibrate with colour. Referencing maps, boundaries and biology she has furthered this narrative in her works on paper with the introduction of an uncontrolled element, the spill. Her drawings begin with paint spilled onto paper and allowed to dry. She then draws back in with ink, acrylic and coloured pencil. To Nordean, this process is a way to regulate and organize the chaos of the spill and is an It is an analogy for people’s desires to regulate and organize the supposed ‘wildness’ of their environment.
Nordean holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Alberta University of the Arts and a Master of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University. She teaches drawing and painting at the Alberta University of the Arts. Recent projects include the White Rabbit Arts Residency and Festival (2018), the Carmichael Canadian Landscape Exhibition at the Orillia Museum of Art and History in Ontario (2016), a solo exhibition at Arts Commons in Calgary, Alberta (2015), and The Istanbul Design Biennial in Turkey (2014). Nrdean’s work is in the collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts.
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