By the Sea - Sarah Van Keuren (NEW)
By the Sea, Sarah Van Keuren

By the Sea

Artist

Sarah Van Keuren

Nationality

American

Heritage

European American

Medium

Offset Lithograph

Date

1989

Dimensions

30 x 22 inches

Edition Size

80 prints in this edition

Printer

Robert "Bob" Franklin

Provenance

Brandywine Workshop and Archives

Location

Philadelphia, PA

About the Work

From the Artist

I care about interacting with the materials and the physical world. Maybe it comes from an agricultural impulse: to cultivate the land and to shape it, to make patterns, to grow; to grow artistically. I have the impulse to draw and to create atmosphere, mood, or ambiance, and it’s been my push to fuse the photographic and the hand-drawn.
—Excerpted from https://www.theartblog.org/2014/04/to-work-as-the-spirit-moves-me-an-interview-with-sarah-van-keuren/, accessed 7-14-2021

Van Keuren's By The Sea—with its depiction of featureless stone-like figures, recorded by a pinhole camera, looking upon an ocean glowing in yellow, from a vantage point high above the water—addresses environmental pollution. Large choppy blocks of blue appear above and below in the frame of the print. She depicts water and air so soiled that they are virtually unrecognizable. The strong black and overlapping blue lines form a window through which the viewer sees a lifeless world.
—From Brandywine Workshop and Archives records

About the Artist

Sarah Van Keuren

Sarah van Keuren is a visual artist and author. She earned a BA in art history from Swarthmore College, PA, an MFA in photography at the University of Delaware, Newark, and studied printmaking at the Philadelphia College of Art (now University of ...

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