Sarah Fuhrman

Sarah F paints ambidirectional landscapes that fulfill earth’s deliberately chaotic potential and vivify culture’s collective inner consciousness. Her work pushes the liminal gaps of fiction and reality and forges a seminal, tentative, yet overwhelmingly meaningful psychic space. By hovering mindfully between dreams and wakefulness, fiction and non-fiction, illusion and disillusionment, she creates a visual metaphysics for the Anthropocene. Sarah’s recent work reaches out toward a post-utopian dialectic. The contentious process craves an inner sanctuary of soul and vision, where survival seems within reason. The figures in question might exist, but the viewer wonders how and where they come and go as work unravels the unfettered surrealist fantasy of her previous output into a strikingly simplistic and peace-laden dreamscape. By deviating from pure acceptance of illusion, this work imbibes another form of realism. Her spaces could remind us of a tiny and alienated hometown, or they could be the realization of a fleeting moment in the mind that’s gripped through the canvas’s surface. Either way, her works remain tranquil and undisturbed, cobbling themselves up over time into a bucolic, even quirky, distilling of reminiscence. In a world dominated by default speed, mass overconsumption, technological depravity, and environmental vulgarity, Sarah F repels fear and harm by weaponizing landscape imagery and its inherent holistic drive.