Sarah Buckner Kranich (Gru), 2019
Oil on linen
110 x 115 cm x 2 cm (43 1/4 x 45 1/4 in x 3/4 in)
Sarah Buckner is a storyteller. Her image world is inspired by multiple sources: real-life encounters, the dreams that sprang from them, books, and films. Thinking in paint, and through painting, Buckner has developed an intuitive and fluid approach that transforms these impressions through her material practice. Her figures feel both open-ended and precisely observed, as they appear to emerge from a fully formed narrative of which viewers can only catch a momentary glimpse. The works exude an interiority reminiscent of dreams, where an object can be many incongruous things simultaneously and signify opposite meanings without contradiction.