Michal Sagar | What Remains

Artist’s Statement
An x-ray of my mouth with a dead tooth and rose petals readied for perfume in a stone sink on the streets of Paris. Two images interacting: human teeth vital to our carnivorous heritage and soft shapes of roses after they are picked curving towards their demise. 

Where is the interplay?

Teeth hold the story for the future to read. Delicate rose petals – flush in their beauty – call to life all the openings.

A tender graphite line maps the structure. Charcoal enlivens a darker, yet nuanced mark. Conté and pastel activate forms; thin washes of oil paint mixed with sand, pumice, and wax build layers of connective tissue.

Drawn with great haste, the movement is specific, tied to forms of the female and the ocean.

In the bite is my personal story. Layers of the body. Space of the mind within the body. Fragile objects on the ground. My mother buried at the bottom of the ocean.  Coming to terms – an archeology of time.

Artist’s Biography
Michal Sagar is the Visual Arts Department Chair at Breck School and a member of Form+Content Gallery in Minneapolis, MN. She received a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Her multimedia work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Sagar’s most recent solo shows include: What Remains and A Fertile Emptiness at Form+Content Gallery; The Beginning of the Third Dream at the Schaeffer Gallery, Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, MN; Excavation at the Tychman Shapiro Gallery in Minneapolis, MN; and Coexistence at the Acanthe Gallery in La Ferté Loupière, France. 

Gallery Hours: Thursday-Saturday: 12-6 PM

Image: Aperture, graphite, charcoal, conté, pastel, sand, pumice, wax, oil paint on paper, 40” x 60” 

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