{"id":23432,"date":"2017-11-17T15:14:22","date_gmt":"2017-11-17T15:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artzealous.com\/?p=23432"},"modified":"2017-11-17T15:47:58","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T15:47:58","slug":"five-minutes-with-sarah-cain-in-her-dreamy-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/five-minutes-with-sarah-cain-in-her-dreamy-studio\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Minutes with Sarah Cain in Her Dreamy Studio"},"content":{"rendered":"
Aquarius artist\u00a0Sarah Cain<\/a>\u00a0is an up-and-comer on the art scene and has an amazing live\/work space in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Her works are aesthetic hybrids of sorts, she marries sculpture with painting and installation, often incorporating found objects like jewelry and textiles.\u00a0Cain<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>‘s forms are free from meditation and raw with an unconventional playfulness. They tread\u00a0the<\/span>\u00a0line between 2D and 3D, with a vividness in both color and shape, nodding to both Pop\u00a0Art<\/span>\u00a0and Abstract Expressionism.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Cain’s craft is almost as magnetic and eccentric as she is — lucky for us, she had two new projects this fall, a massive outdoor site-specific installation at the<\/span> new ICA LA<\/a>\u00a0<\/b>and solo exhibition of new works at\u00a0<\/span>Anthony Meier Fine Arts<\/span><\/a> <\/b>in San Francisco.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Whether it be installation or individual wall works, her forms are unbarred by\u00a0the\u00a0frame of a canvas, resisting any formal categorization. Visitors to both ICA LA and Anthony Meier Fine\u00a0Arts\u00a0will get to experience her approach first hand \u2013 an intimate exploration of\u00a0the\u00a0animation of both architectural and emotional spaces.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n AZ caught up with Cain to get an inside look at her crafty home studio as well as the rundown on her recent projects.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Art Zealous: Art background?<\/strong> \u2028<\/strong><\/p>\n Sarah Cain:<\/strong> Music, poetry, words, plants. I went to college in Paris and San Francisco.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n AZ: Hometown?<\/strong><\/p>\n SC:<\/strong> Los Angeles.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n AZ: Astrological sign?<\/strong><\/p>\n SC:<\/strong> Double Aquarius.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n AZ: Phone background?<\/strong><\/p>\n SC:<\/strong> I\u2019m on the edge of being too old for this question, it took me a minute to figure out what you meant, like do I remember rotary phones? Yes. Do I remember when people didn\u2019t have cell phones? Yes. Was it maybe better when everyone wasn\u2019t stuck looking at their phones? Yes. Then I realized I think you mean what is the background photo on my current phone.\u00a0 One is of my cat Grey Beau and the other is my cat Roxy.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n AZ: Favorite color? <\/strong>\u2028<\/strong><\/p>\n SC:<\/strong> I don\u2019t really have one, but I relate a lot to bright red, orange, and fluorescent yellow.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n AZ: How do you decorate your\u00a0incredible live\/work space in Los Angeles to create a studio that is conducive to your creativity? <\/strong>\u2028<\/strong><\/p>\n SC: <\/strong>I have a compound with a separate structure for the studio and the house. The studio is just there for working, there\u2019s a balcony that looks onto a mountain range, and I look at that a lot, in a sense that is the studio decoration.\u00a0 The house is also pretty utilitarian, there are a handful of cats lounging, and views onto a wild garden and some artwork mostly gifted from friends. Currently, there\u2019s art by Xylor Jane, Amy Sillman, Rema Ghuloum, Regina Bogat, Alicia McCarthy, Beatrice Wood, Colter Jacobsen, and Tam Van Tran.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n AZ: How did your new project installation at the new ICA LA come about? How long does it take to complete a huge outdoor project like that? \u2028<\/strong><\/p>\n SC: <\/strong>I completed the ICA LA work in a nine-day heat wave. Jamillah James invited me to do the project after she came by for a studio visit.\u00a0 The way I paint is to attack and resolve on site, letting the painting come to me during the install period.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n AZ: The title is from a poem written for you by celebrated poet Bernadette Mayer. Can you please share the poem, and how did you draw inspiration \u2028from those words? \u2028<\/strong><\/p>\n SC: <\/strong>Here\u2019s a recording<\/a> of Bernadette reading the poem. Bernadette and I are old friends, I draw inspiration from her as a person and relate to the way she creates her work.\u00a0 The line \u201cNow I\u2019m going to tell you everything\u201d <\/em>relates to the present tense way I work and how the boundaries between what is fair game in a painting or poem are challenged.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n AZ: We love how you don’t need a traditional canvas to create. How do you choose multi-dimensional surfaces as your canvas and what’s it like creating art outside?<\/strong><\/p>\n SC: <\/strong>I built what I do out of a sense of suffocation by the traditions of painting on a canvas.\u00a0 Creating art outside is the hardest working environment for me.\u00a0 The elements are always there either with a heat wave or rain shower, so you have to be super flexible.\u00a0 Though mostly because I don\u2019t plan paintings out in a traditional way, I need to remain super open and shed boundaries so I can be ready for the next move.\u00a0 Doing that outside creates a lot of issues so I usually always wear headphones and have someone with me whose job is mostly to keep people away from me so I can stay in the zone.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n