Sariah Park: IMMATERIAL



June 22 – July 27, 2024

Opening:
Sat. June 22nd • 4pm - dusk

Artist Talk:
Sun. July 21st • 2pm
(Upstate Art Weekend event)

Gallery hours:
Thu. - Sat. : 1-5pm
and by appointment

Please contact info@unisonarts.org to make an appointment.

(Please check our site for any changes to regular gallery hours.)

Repose
Monotype, 2023


Building on the vibrant and timely Printing With Waste series, Sariah Park’s recent large-scale monotypes respond to the landscape and ancient Indigenous petroglyphs of New Mexico, incorporating a new earth palette that includes deep yellow-gold and “rattlesnake” tones into an established range of indigos and iron oxide reds. 

A set of woven fiber and handmade paper works appear variously as matrices, ghosts, soft grids and brittle skeletons. Some are arrested by pressure and dense layers of ink, taut with shrinkage and clipping; while others celebrate gently collaborative structures and a wilder freedom of form. Traces of imprinted structures no longer present hold the potent vividness of memory and its mirror image, the imagined yet-to-come, as Park layers making and un-making to invite contemplation of warp, weft and waste – and restorative Land practices with a longer view.


Dominance
Monotype, 2023

About Sariah Park:

Sariah Park addresses issues of identity, culture, and the act of making in relation to Land. Her work questions how intrinsic identity informs what and how we make, and speaks to the devastating effects of overconsumption on the environment.

These monotypes repurpose and reimagine damaged textiles and materials into new forms as part of her Printing with Waste series. Her work shows the transformation of material made immaterial, craft as a form of ceremony, and the transfer of energy and spirit into a living process, striving to become in balance with the natural world. 

Sariah Park is an interdisciplinary artist of Indigenous descent and an enrolled member of the Chiricahua Apache Nation. Sariah’s work has been featured in Hyperallergic, the Wall Street Journal, Women’s Wear Daily, Vogue, Elle, and Harper’s Bazaar. She is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Fellowship (2019), as well as grants from Creative Capital, Foundation for the Arts, and the CERF+. Her work is included in portfolios, traveling exhibitions, and private collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. She is currently Assistant Professor of Fashion Design and Social Justice at Parsons School of Design where she has been teaching art and design for the last thirteen years.