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Caption: SARAH BOYTS YODER
Welcome Gallery
Charlottesville, 10/2-10/30
2015 ELBOWS ON THE TABLE
Caption: Putting your elbows on the table is a posture, an active invitation, an attitude. It encourages straightforwardness, engages conversation, dissolves formality. And, it gets down to business.
It's how I approach you with the work and how I hope you approach it too.
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Caption: New Thangs (medium & small), 2015
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Caption: In every field, on paper, in paintings or within installations, my goal is to deliberately collapse the lines between abstracted unknowability and that which we can instantly recognize. Where do they cross? Like a thief breaking into a vault with an ear pressed to the door, listening intently for the right combination to slide into place, I hunt those moments down. For the maker and for the viewer, those moments of collapse are the best parts.
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Caption: No Diving (they will make you sign forms), 48"x48", acrylic, oil stick, collage, spray paint on canvas, 2015.
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Caption: Official Vocab, site specific installation, charcoal
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Caption: All My Shoes, 36"x48", acrylic, oil stick, charcoal, spray paint on canvas, 2015
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Caption: The works come with an open and off-kilter invitation to approach. To sort through and gather together all these suspended forms and shapes like so many scattered toys after a kids' game gone wrong. Toeing that line between familiarity and strangeness IS a game. And it connects you and me. Do you see what I see? What do we add to each other's experience we see the same thing? Or, when we see it completely differently.
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Caption: Advanced Lavender, 60"x60", acrylic, oil stick, charcoal on canvas, 2015
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Caption: Younger Jungle, 24"x24", acrylic, ink, collage on canvas, 2015
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Caption: Welcome Gallery is located in downtown Charlottesville, VA
114 3rd St. NE
operated by New City Arts Initiative WITH LOVE & THANKS