UU Santa Fe hosts various art installations by local artists; these change bi-monthly. You will find on this page our featured artist(s).
Art on Barcelona is facilitated and curated by Virginia Asman.
Art on Barcelona is facilitated and curated by Virginia Asman.
Art on Barcelona
HAVEN
Karren Sahler
March/April 2019
Reception: Friday March 15, 2019, 5-7:30 pm
Art on Barcelona is pleased to present an art exhibit of the work of Karren Sahler, a member of UU Santa Fe.
“What does it mean to create art? To be an artist? And by whose definition? And what are the qualifications?
When I am in the middle of living my life with all the distractions, stresses, demands, obligations, responsibilities, judgments, chores, comparisons, criticisms, confrontations, chaos and choices, choices, choices, on and on and on;
I need a safe place, a Haven. And for me that means painting.
But how do I know what to paint?
How do I know that I am evolving as an artist?
What do I want to say about myself, about my world? I am told there are no limits in life but I see walls all around. I’m not the right gender, not the right color, not the right size, not the right shape, not the right age, not the right culture, not the right family?
And my fingers hurt, and I have all these art supplies and the pressure just keeps building and building to produce, to create, to be original,
to leave a Big Mark in a Big Way in a Big Life. When in fact,
“You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.”
(Thank you, Mary Oliver).
So I paint. And the mundane disappears. And what remains are these images, the tailings of my artistic mining.
I am calm. Yet I am thirsty. I am hungry. I am yearning for more visions.”—Karren Sahler
Artist, Karren Sahler, works predominantly in acrylic and pastel. She creates vibrant abstracts and non-objective works as well as more traditional pastel landscapes. All are infused with a sense of texture and vivid color. “I think that art is everywhere and in everything. From my point of view, everything is art, including terrifying or unpalatable images.” To her, all nouns and objects are art and color is the descriptor, the adjective. Not just the “real” color but also the after-image color that you see when you close your eyes, or the color that bees see or the color of our dreams. All of these things influence her use of color and her interpretation of light and shadow.
Karren Sahler
March/April 2019
Reception: Friday March 15, 2019, 5-7:30 pm
Art on Barcelona is pleased to present an art exhibit of the work of Karren Sahler, a member of UU Santa Fe.
“What does it mean to create art? To be an artist? And by whose definition? And what are the qualifications?
When I am in the middle of living my life with all the distractions, stresses, demands, obligations, responsibilities, judgments, chores, comparisons, criticisms, confrontations, chaos and choices, choices, choices, on and on and on;
I need a safe place, a Haven. And for me that means painting.
But how do I know what to paint?
How do I know that I am evolving as an artist?
What do I want to say about myself, about my world? I am told there are no limits in life but I see walls all around. I’m not the right gender, not the right color, not the right size, not the right shape, not the right age, not the right culture, not the right family?
And my fingers hurt, and I have all these art supplies and the pressure just keeps building and building to produce, to create, to be original,
to leave a Big Mark in a Big Way in a Big Life. When in fact,
“You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.”
(Thank you, Mary Oliver).
So I paint. And the mundane disappears. And what remains are these images, the tailings of my artistic mining.
I am calm. Yet I am thirsty. I am hungry. I am yearning for more visions.”—Karren Sahler
Artist, Karren Sahler, works predominantly in acrylic and pastel. She creates vibrant abstracts and non-objective works as well as more traditional pastel landscapes. All are infused with a sense of texture and vivid color. “I think that art is everywhere and in everything. From my point of view, everything is art, including terrifying or unpalatable images.” To her, all nouns and objects are art and color is the descriptor, the adjective. Not just the “real” color but also the after-image color that you see when you close your eyes, or the color that bees see or the color of our dreams. All of these things influence her use of color and her interpretation of light and shadow.
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.―Anne Frank