Sarah Bienvenu: Taking Time: Thirty Years of Painting New Mexico - Softcover

Wilson-Powell, MaLin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1934491187 ISBN 13: 9781934491188

Publisher: SF Design, llc / FrescoBooks, 2010

Synopsis

For thirty years, Sarah Bienvenu's experiences painting and exploring New Mexico's mountains, canyons, and deserts have given her a unique ability to disentangle and interpret these past layers of change. She finds beauty in nature's ability to reveal accidental compositions through patterns and asymmetry: "I look to the land to tell me how best to paint it, using the natural abstract shapes I see." Being attuned to such abstractions--the undulations of a dry riverbed, the jaggedness of rock against sky--is where abstraction becomes detail: detail of texture, detail of shape, detail of light and color and composition.

Watercolors provide the perfect medium for matching the immense variation and subtlety of Bienvenu's subject. A closer look reveals that each individual element, as in nature, harmonizes with the collective whole. Realism is discovered in consonance: from a cast of light to a balance of colors.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

For thirty years, Sarah Bienvenu's experiences painting and exploring New Mexico's mountains, canyons, and deserts have given her a unique ability to disentangle and interpret these past layers of change.

About the Author:

MaLin Wilson-Powell is an art writer, curator, editor, and lecturer whose career has alternated between independent projects and curatorial work. She is a contributing editor to numerous Santa Fe regional art publications and has published twenty-five museum catalogues and more than three hundred articles in magazines and newspapers, including ART-FORUM, Art Issues, and the Los Angeles Times.

About this edition

• Publisher: SF Design, llc / FrescoBooks
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1934491187
• ISBN 13: 9781934491188
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64