Sarah Walker
The images in Sarah Walker’s paintings are constructed from layered systems of visual data that coalesce to create places of dizzying intricacy and intense color. The artist refers to her paintings as “highly active accumulations of multiple orders,” and the workings of her mind – and her paintings – are informed by her research into fields of inquiry that rely upon the collection and analysis of staggering amounts of data. These include (but are not limited to) cosmology, neurology, computer science, meteorology, geology, physiology, and virology, as well as recent approaches to the study of data itself: chaos and complexity theory, systems and information theory, and mental mapping. Walker is in no way interested in illustrating aspects of science or its data, but rather in imagining visual metaphors for the increasingly complex interactions among the brain, the eye, technology, information, and natural phenomena and systems. Her paintings are affirmations of the dynamic interconnectedness of all things, and celebrations of the parallel complexity of our selves and the universe.
Sarah Walker resides in South Boston, MA
Image: Sarah Walker, Dust Atlas, (detail), 2006, acrylic on paper, 80” x 120”, Lent by the Artist, Courtesy Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, NY
