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Sarah McEneaney

Bedroom, 1995

Description

Maker

  • Sarah McEneaney, b.1955, American

Title

Bedroom

Year

1995

Medium

Egg tempera on gessoed wood

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • tempera

Techniques

  • gesso

Supports

  • wood

Dimensions

67.6 x 91.4 cm (26 5/8 x 36 inches)

Type

  • Paintings

Credit

Helen M. Danforth Acquisition Fund

Object Number

2004.24.1

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

The Figure

March 12, 2010 - March 3, 2011

Sarah McEneaney paints autobiographical narratives based on her immediate surroundings, such as this interior of the bedroom she lived in during her 1995 artist’s residency at Yaddo, in Saratoga Springs, New York. Working from observation, memory, and imagination, McEneaney captures the emotional as well as the physical character of a particular situation or event, whether mundane or dramatic, with remarkably vivid detail, colors, and patterns. McEneaney's use of egg tempera recalls early Renaissance panel painting, but she significantly rejects the use of one-point perspective typical of Western art since that era. In viewing the details of her experiences we observe the artist’s life, while we are asked to contemplate our own.

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