BFA Thesis Exhibit
Sarah Turner
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Artist Statement
Touch is one of the most profound senses we experience as humans. It is the first sense to be developed and is the fundamental way that we explore, navigate and understand the world around us. Touch is our primordial communicator that provides information and allows us to extend the reach of our boundaries. Discovering the softness within the rigid and creating invisible boundaries for one to ponder.
One must touch to be touched
One can only become singular after you have been plural
We currently live in a touchless world, restricted in the ways we interact with one another. The absence of proximity to others and lost connection leads us to self reflection. The inside of the body is a vessel in which one has no direct sensory access to. These works invite the viewer to reflect on their own internal landscape.
Sculptural and light based works provoke a sensitivity within the gallery space, exploring the body as a barrier and as a vessel, negotiating the lines between internal and external. By developing an abstracted vocabulary that dances in, out, and around the body. The work speaks to experiences and shared sensations that push our understanding of touch into new and unexpected places.
One must touch to be touched
One can only become singular after you have been plural
We currently live in a touchless world, restricted in the ways we interact with one another. The absence of proximity to others and lost connection leads us to self reflection. The inside of the body is a vessel in which one has no direct sensory access to. These works invite the viewer to reflect on their own internal landscape.
Sculptural and light based works provoke a sensitivity within the gallery space, exploring the body as a barrier and as a vessel, negotiating the lines between internal and external. By developing an abstracted vocabulary that dances in, out, and around the body. The work speaks to experiences and shared sensations that push our understanding of touch into new and unexpected places.
Click to view A neon sculpture using red and blue light to depict changes over time Full-Screen
Mercuriality // Neon // 6x7 feet
Click to view Eviscerated Neon Sculpture Lights Full-Screen
Eviscerated // Neon // 2x2 feet
Click to view A three dimensional neon sculpture depicting a Bony Process Full-Screen
Bony Process // Neon // 5x5 feet
Click to view Three Dimensional Neon Sculpture Full-Screen
Eviscerated // Neon // 2x2 feet
Click to view A neon tube wrapped in Sausage Casings Full-Screen
Insides Outside // Neon // 1.5x2 feet
Click to view A neon text piece reciting the words “Losing Touch” in Red Neon Full-Screen
Losing Touch // Neon // 3x2 feet
Click to view A Neon Tube that has been wrapped with my own wax hand impression Full-Screen
Touching // Neon // 1x1 feet
Click to view An abstract neon sculpture of the pelvis Full-Screen
Basin Of Light // Neon // 1x1 feet
Click to view Neon Tubes wrapped in different kinds of Fruit and Vegetable Skins. Full-Screen
Skins // Neon // 5x4 feet
Click to view Neon tubes bend into the form of heads installed a little to close for comfort Full-Screen
Three's a Crowd // Neon // 5x5 feet