Sara Robichaud: Spectral

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Sara Robichaud, "Carmine," 2019

acrylic on canvas, 24" x 18"

Opening Reception, Saturday November 9th from 2 to 5 pm.

Artist in attendance. Artist Remarks at 3:30 pm

Materially lustrous, Sara Robichaud’s new series of paintings in the exhibition “Spectral,” combine processes and ideas that embody the physicality of formalist painting, and invite imaginative, playful interpretation. Sara scrapes pools of colour together with gel medium to create mysterious floating forms on grounds that act like recesses of the mind. For the large-scale works, she has constructed a wood ‘contraption’, which allows her to glide suspended above the surface of the canvas, pouring and scraping paint, transferring a feeling of movement to contrast the stasis of vacuous space in the background. These works are the embodiment and output of an artist deep into process who becomes the unconscious conduit for creativity released into form onto canvas.

Sara Robichaud completed her Masters of Fine Arts degree at the University of Victoria in 2009 after receiving her BFA at Queen's University in 1995.  She currently lives in Nanaimo, BC and teaches on Vancouver Island. She has taught at the Surrey Art Gallery, the Vancouver Island School of Art and during her Masters, as a sessional instructor at the University of Victoria. Sara has been a Golden Certified Working Artist for Vancouver Mainland and Vancouver Island since 2006. Sara is represented in Calgary at the Herringer Kiss Gallery and in Vancouver at Gallery Jones. Her work has been exhibited nationally and at international art fairs in New York, Toronto, and Los Angeles. It is also part of numerous private and public collections in North America and the Middle East.