Sarah Gutwirth
Cloth of Gold, 2022
Oil on canvas
40" x 38"

Artist Statement
This painting is a transitional work which navigates between the earlier smaller "Correspondence" pieces and my latest work. Both the Correspondence paintings and the new Natural Philosophy paintings are based on a grid. Cloth of Gold takes the themes of echoing forms in nature and in human-made objects, both in paintings and in decorative objects from the Correspondence works. However it plays on a composition derived from late Baroque still life, where the objects of still life are presented in the landscape. The clear reference to tropes from historical painting is a continuing theme in my work. I would say this is one of my least cerebral and most purely sensuous of paintings.

Artist Bio

Sarah Gutwirth received her BFA and BA in painting in 1978 from a joint program of Reed College and the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland OR. Her MFA in painting is from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn in 1985. In 2017 she was nominated for the prestigious Joan Mitchell Prize for Painting. She has received grants from Kentucky Arts Council, Kentucky Foundation for Women, Murray State University and United University Professions at SUNY. She has had 20 one and two person exhibits over the last thirty-one years and has had work in numerous group shows including in Philadelphia at CFEVA, INLIQUID and the Cosmopolitan Club. Her work has been shown in seven states. She has paintings is in several private and University collections, including the People's Education Press in Beijing. She held three tenure track teaching positions, receiving tenure at two. She retired in 2017 as Full Professor of Painting Emerita at Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky. In 2017 she moved to Philadelphia where she was born and raised.

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