“America 250: Focus with Artist Sarah Ann Weber" at the Figge Art Museum -- July 9.
Thursday, July 9, 8 p.m.
Figge Art Museum, 225 West Second Street, Davenport IA
In celebration of America’s 250th birthday, Davenport's Figge Art Museum is hosting American Art talks throughout the month of July, and on Thursday the 9th, guests are invited to the John Deere Auditorium to hear from Chicago artist Sarah Ann Weber, whose work Their Perfume Lost is featured in the A Golden Age for Whom? exhibition currently on view in the Mary Waterman Gildehaus Community Gallery.
As stated at AnatEbgi.com: "Sarah Ann Weber employs painting and drawing to create overgrown landscapes that are both verdant and putrefied, while confounding traditional expectations of the landscape genre. Rather than replicating the surface details of our natural surroundings, Weber’s marvelous evocations of nature concern themselves with the spiritual essence of the world, decentralizing the figure. By choreographing vegetation through her imaginative stylizations, the artist proposes that psychological and emotional worlds are as complex and as ripe for exploration as the one beyond our bodies.
"Sarah Ann Weber (b. 1988, Chicago, IL) received her MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and her BFA from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. Weber has exhibited her work in solo exhibitions at Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles; 12.26, Dallas, Texas; Club Pro, Los Angeles; The Franklin, Chicago; and a two-person exhibition with Allison Hall at SOCO Gallery, Charlotte, NC. Selected group exhibitions include Stems Gallery, Paris, France; MAUVE Gallery, Vienna, Austria; Greenpoint Terminal Gallery, Brooklyn; Hunter Shaw Fine Art, Los Angeles; Galerie Nord/Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin; Locust Projects, Miami; and Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago.
"Weber’s work has been acquired by public and private collections including the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Jacksonville, Florida; Figge Art Museum, Davenport, Iowa; United States Department of State, U.S. Embassy in Guatemala City; Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art, Suzhou, China; among others. Weber lives and works in Chicago, Illinois."
America 250: Focus with Artist Sarah Ann Weber will be presented on July 9, admission to the 6 p.m. program is free, and more information is available by calling (563)326-7894 and visiting FiggeArtMuseum.org.
