Sarah Buckner La rue, 2025

The painting's motif combines elements from a scene one might see happening in the street with the intensity of a dreamlike scenario. The focus of the composition is on a woman, but visible only as a silhouetted figure on the left, who appears to travel at high speed in the street, with a small child in tow. A child appears in disarray, holding on to a round shape that recalls an artist's palette, replete with a large dollop of yellow paint but which is probably a shopping bag. The work is from a body of work interrogating the significance of gender for being an artist.