What Remains Transparent Sarah Knobel

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Synthetic Nature 2 | Archival pigment Print | 42 x 56 | 2022

EWU Gallery of Art Presents

What Remains Transparent
Sarah Knobel

Oct. 3rd, 2024 – Nov. 8th, 2024
EWU Art Building

Admission is free

Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday 9am to 6pm
Closed Weekends, Holidays, and for Spring Break March 24-28, 2025.

Artist Website: Home https://sarahknobel.com/

What Remains Transparent Sarah Knobel

Opening Reception and Lecture | Thursday, October 3rd, Noon

Join us at the opening reception for Sarah Knobels exhibition What Remains Transparent with some light refreshments and a lecture from the artist about her work.

This work represents Sarah’s grief about the aftereffects of consumption. She poetically transforms this grief into a dialogue about the complexity of these materials and our relationship to them.

Location: Eastern Washington University Gallery of Art is located in the Art Building situated in the center of the fine and performing arts complex on the EWU campus in Cheney, Washington.

Hours: Gallery hours are Monday through Friday 9am to 6pm and closed weekends, holidays and for spring break March 24-28, 2025.

Admission is free

What Remains Transparent

Artist Statement

“What Remains Transparent” showcases Sarah Knobel’s photographic works from the past four years, focusing on plastic waste. Knobel uses various photographic processes to examine the leftover packing materials that represent the remains of everyday consumer goods, questioning their symbolic significance and lasting existence. She questions their relationship with nature by placing these objects with organic materials.
This work represents Sarah’s grief about the aftereffects of consumption. She poetically transforms this grief into a dialogue about the complexity of these materials and our relationship to them.
Her photographs use micro and macro viewpoints to evoke ideas of artifacts or ecosystems. The style fluctuates between ornate and colorful collaged approaches and more minimalist alternative processes. Together, these works philosophically question the complexity of how these synthetic materials have integrated into our ecosystem.

 

Sarah Knobel

Artist Bio

Sarah Knobel is an artist captivated by the concept of commodities and their existence beyond mere utility. Through her evocative imagery, she crafts liminal spaces, inviting viewers to contemplate the enigmatic nature of everyday objects and our waste. Her work seamlessly weaves together optimism and hostility, beauty and repulsion, exploring the collision between the natural world and opposing forces. Her compelling photographs and videos have been shown both nationally and internationally. She resides in upstate New York, nestled near the Canada border, and draws inspiration from the serene surroundings. Sarah holds an MFA from the Design Architecture Art and Planning program at the University of Cincinnati.

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