Sia Aryai

Papillon.IV edition # 2 of 3, Mixed Media on Canvas

2017

Elegant, heavyweight canvas is treated with multiple layers of varnish, hand painted with metallic chrome ink before and after printing. Aged by sanding to create visual metaphor...

The leaf of every tree brings the message from the unseen world. Look, every falling leaf is a blessing. (Rumi) This is inspired by color and pattern found in nature. Paintin...

Sara Crisp embeds found organic objects such as starfish, butterfly wings and fossils into the wax surfaces of her paintings. They have often been compared to medieval reliquaries, fossilized amber, and naturalist’s journals. Although the placement of the component objects is carefully planned, she comes across these artifacts by chance. This duality between control and spontaneity is prominent in her work. The result is visually seductive and symbolically suggestive, balancing scientific objectivity and romantic subjectivity. Her work comes across as precise, even clinical, at times, their surfaces scored and traversed by carefully measured lines and geometric forms. Carefully fashioned, polygonal sections of mica, a transparent mineral, cover the center of each painting. In addition to celebrating the process involved in creating an object, Crisp’s art...

Butterfly with Mended Wing is a study of the human condition and the work we all do in our own lives to belong more fully to ourselves. The red stitch on the wing is symbolic of our ...