Sarah Meadows | Time Ends Now

Moving away from figurative work, Sarah Meadows has produced her first exhibition of landscape photographs to be shown at NATIONALE this November. Elaborating on her fascination with nature and the elastic properties of film images, she has dispensed entirely with narrative and human gesture and presents instead a concentrated study of wilderness encountered. These images are an investigation into the experience of their making: time elapsed, time slowed and smeared, and time condensed into the pictorial frame. Meadows works extensively with her negatives, scanning and cropping them repeatedly until they reveal the information they contain or until they simply fall apart. The resulting images are fragments that offer both sublime and mundane details, expanding and retracting in scale.

Out there are dark spots with no light, but also ridiculous frills and frothy foamy things like vines and flowers that only make sense in a formal way- as washes of color, buttons down the front of a sweater.

Born in Oregon in 1978, Sarah Meadows makes work around and about wild areas of the West Coast. She holds a Bachelors degree in Liberal Arts from The Evergreen State College and a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Photography from the Pacific Northwest College of Art. Her work has been featured in Humble Arts Foundation’s Group Show 9, and on Wheat Toast, an international emerging artists organization. She shoots film all the time and frequently posts images to her blog, OWL. Her portfolio can be viewed at http://www.sarah-meadows.com.

Opening reception Friday November 13th, 6-8pm
On view November 11th - December 6th, 2009