On View: March 9 – April 14, 2022

Fay Sanders is a figurative painter with a focus on portraiture. In her current series, she paint women in sports. By reappropriating Christian religious imagery and motifs from the Soviet avant garde, as well as footage from the Olympics, she conjure a world of all-women athletics, one both recognizable and inaccessible, full of inside jokes and insularity. In her paintings, this world is a utopia.

She’s fascinated by the way the athlete’s body becomes a tribute to its sport, a machine built for one purpose. She plays with proportion, emphasizing parts of the body that the athlete herself has emphasized through training. Beyond her figural stylizations, She renders landscape elements in bizarre ways and accentuate unnatural tones. Just as these athletes radiate dedication to sport, She hopes her paintings indicate her love of this medium. Painting, after all, like sports, is a serious form of play.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

View more of Sanders’ work at  www.faysanders.com