Sarah McKenzie
Gallery Affiliations: Jen Bekman Gallery
Region: West
Website: http://www.sarahmckenzie.com
City / State: Boulder, CO
My current body of work, White Walls, explores the architecture of
the exhibition space—minimalist gallery and museum interiors,
art fair tents, and video-screening rooms. I am interested in
the notion of spectacle and the role that architecture plays in
orienting the viewer’s experience of a work of art. The spaces
featured in my paintings are vessels designed to accommodate
an ever-shifting range of aesthetic experiences. These rooms are
simultaneously austere and luxurious, impersonal and sacred.
They may appear makeshift, but are in fact highly controlled
and culturally coded, raising issues of audience and access. As
with all my work, human occupants are notably absent from the
paintings, forcing the viewer to consider his or her own position
with respect to the scenes depicted.

