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The Shadow Administration, the title of Sara van der Heide’s exhibition of recent paintings hints at both the content and the mood of the work. These large-scale canvases, feature layered images thinly painted in luminous colors. The paintings play with the image and its connotations, combining a multiplicity of perspectives and narratives in a single canvas. Van der Heide’s paintings feature human beings and familiar objects in cryptic scenarios, which carry a kind of psychological charge. In her works, images and objects are transformed by memory, feeling and imagination. These are poetic works, whose exact meaning is in the confluence of dream-like images, rather than in an explicit message. Presented in cinematic scale, the paintings immerse the viewer fully in a world of intense color and richly textured imaginary scenarios.
Sara van der Heide has exhibited her work extensively in Europe and the U.S., including a 2004 exhibition at the Kustera/Tilton Gallery. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, and the Walker Art center in Minneapolis. The artist is currently in residence at the ISCP program in NYC and will have a solo show in 2008 at the Museum de Pont in Tilburg, Holland.
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