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Sharon Arnold's Page
Profile Information
- Relationship status
- in a relationship
- College / University
- Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle; Pratt Institute, NY
- Program
- Sculpture, Art History, Theory & Criticism
- Graduation
- 5 May 2006
- Member type
- Artist
- If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?
- Conceptual, Drawing, Installation, Printmaking, Sculpture
- I am...
- Sharon Arnold is a Seattle-based artist and writer. She studied at Pratt Institute in New York, focusing on sculpture, art history, and semiotics; and completed her last year and a half Magna Cum Laude at Cornish College of the Arts in 2006.
Ms. Arnold is founder of the art blog and subscription projects Artomaton/LxWxH, an artist-driven public project based on the discussion and promotion of locally-based art and literature. Artomaton's primary function was to engage artists and viewers together through art and philosophy using the website as access to an artistic community. Artists submitted work collectively which participants purchased on the website as a subscription. The project was suspended in mid-2008 while Sharon returned to the studio to work on a solo exhibition, however plans are in place to renew the project LxWxH in mid 2009.
Ms. Arnold's work is borne of unique and repetitive applications of traditional and non-traditional uses of paper and printmaking. Her imagery manifests as fictional cartography, combining methods of mapping with the idea of place. Sharon has most recently shown at the Georgetown Art Center in Seattle, and her current work can be found at www.dimensionsvariable.org.
- About my artwork
- Most of the work embodies a topographical feel either by process or by pattern. While not intentional, it’s not without reason. I have purpose in materials but intuit the process, like formulæ without the math. The element of surprise is critical – the rule is don’t think about the end result, and while paper, steel, ink are the media they are not the point.
In drawings, I traverse distance by threading or tracing across a field of paper. An aesthetic result is almost circumstantial, as each mark records the path behind it. It is a marker of where I am, and of where I’ve been.
In printmaking, I corrode steel plates to destroy the surface and leave an impression on paper -- the corrosion becomes part of the finished work as well as the process. The embossed and rusted surface effectively records a moment of human interference—a stain being an inherently human deposit. This too, records that I was here.
Process, repetition, and labour are the methods by which I reach a conclusion.
Philosophy, obsession, and location are my exploration.
- Artists I like
- Those incomprehensible geniuses who take ordinary objects, concepts, and techniques to transcend their media and my expectations.
Tara Donovan
Eva Hesse
Richard Serra
Tom Friedman
Sol le Witt
- Interests
- All Art, All the Time
- What exhibitions are good at the moment?
- Mary Temple in Seattle at Western Bridge.
- Centre of the artworld:
- my studio, nowhere and everywhere
Sharon Arnold's Blog
Thank You!
I wanted to thank everyone who made it out to my show, labour ←→ wait ←→ repeat, this past December and January at the Georgetown Art Center. The show is up through 7 February, and 30% of proceeds from this show go towards the development of the teen art studios in July 2009. Please make an appointment with the GAC if you plan on seeing the work. Thanks again and I will be sure to let you know about upcoming shows in the next year!
Posted on 3rd February 2009 at 5:18pm —
Artist Statement
build ←→ destroy ←→ repair ←→ obsess ←→ labour ←→ wait ←→ repeat
Posted on 12th October 2008 at 5:30am —
CV
EDUCATION ________________________________________________________________________ 2006 BFA, Cornish College of the Arts. Seattle Washington 2002-05 Pratt Institute, New York, New York SOLO EXHIBITIONS ________________________________________________________________________ 2009, extended show, labour ←→ wait ←→ repeat, Georgetown Art Center, Seattle WA 2008 labour ←→ wait ←→ repeat, Georgetown Art Center, Seattle WA SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS _________________________________… Continue
Posted on 11th October 2008 at 7:30pm —
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The 2009 IJC is open to all artists worldwide, age 18 and older. All works must be original. Entries in the following medias will be accepted: Painting, Drawing, Mixed media, Printmaking, Watercolor, Ceramics, Sculpture, and Photography.
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I know it has been awhile, but I find your work interesting too.
Thanks again for the nice comment
pbj
Thanks for that lovely comment, It's great to get to know your work as well. Keep me posted on what you're up to.
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