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Denise Stewart-SanabriaRiding the Big Gun2021
2021
About the Item
"Riding the Big Gun" is a mixed media and plywood sculpture from Denise Stewart-Sanabria's award-winning series of free-standing representational figures. The scene depicted took place when a slightly drunk actor wandered into an opening reception Sanabria had at a friend's showroom in Knoxville. Her friend, a concrete and steel fabricator, had made a fake Gatling gun out of scrap metals, a rubber doll's head, and crayons.
Sanabria handed the actor an empty wine bottle and asked him to yell something in French as a joke. To her surprise, the actor was relatively fluent and stood behind the sculpture, bottle in hand, and began yelling French revolutionary slogans. Sanabria took a photo and recreated the moment using charcoal and pastel pencil on plywood and handmade ceramic crayons.
About the Artist:
Denise Stewart-Sanabria is a Knoxville-based artist born in Massachusetts. She received her BFA in Painting from the University of Massachusetts/Amherst.
Her recent paintings focus on commercial design over the centuries as an insight into human desire juxtaposed with contemporary food dramas. Sanabria paints hyperrealist "portraits" of everything from produce to subversive jelly donuts. These "anthropomorphic food narratives" often reflect human behavior.
"When you look at the interior design and products from different times in history, you are reading the culture, dreams, and preoccupations of that time," says Sanabria.
She is also known for her life-size charcoal portrait drawings on plywood, which are cut out, mounted on wood bases, and staged in conceptual installations. In 2019, Sanabria was awarded a Tennessee Arts Commission Individual Artist Grant for her work on wood.
Her work has been featured in multiple solo shows across the country. It is included in various museums, private, and corporate collections, including The Tennessee State Museum, The Knoxville Museum of Art, Huntsville Museum of Art, Omni and Opryland Hotels, Federal Reserve Bank in Nashville, Knoxville Botanical Gardens, and the corporate offices of McGhee Tyson Airport to name a few.
- Creator:Denise Stewart-Sanabria (American)
- Creation Year:2021
- Dimensions:Height: 70 in (177.8 cm)Width: 50 in (127 cm)Depth: 6 in (15.24 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Nashville, TN
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU167529698092
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