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Christine Sauerteig-Pilaar: Klutch

Christine Sauerteig-Pilaar: Klutch

SKU: 2021-00044.

This portrays that moment when a secret meeting is caught. I think of it as if they were meeting in the dark, planning an uprising, and the lights are turned on, and they need to find a way to cover up what they were doing. The title ‘Klutch’ references a ‘Coffee Klutch’, an informal gathering of women for idle chat. The floor is an attempt to bring the notion of old dirty floors.

My current work is the result of a complete wiping away of the work I had been making for years. I decided to make a journey for myself, unloading and ripping away the pretexts and formality of the work I had fallen into a habit with. When I was in Art School, I was powerful and strong with my work, I pushed boundaries and tested limits. But as the years between art school and life extended, my work became closed down and buried under notions of making something ‘pretty’, showing off skill and thinking that somehow, that would be enough. But there is only so much hiding one can do within oneself, and luckily for me, I had finally hit that breaking point.
I cleansed my studio, layered paintings on top of themselves in the back space, created a drawing wall and began with simple charcoal and paper. I came back to myself, making portraits that I increasingly pushed for more bravery within myself to push more out of the way. I continue to realize my body as communication, and to face more and more truths with my body. My body has survived many atrocities and glories over the years. I have birthed two amazing girls, I have nursed them and carried them. I have broken bones, discovered illnesses, disregarded my body’s worth, harmed it, pampered it and embraced it, and pushed it to its limits. It has bled, healed, succumbed, released, and endured. Every day is another reality within this flesh, another truth I must face.
Through this exploration, I have discovered a universal woman who stands steadfast in our current political atmosphere. This woman I portray in my work comes from a primal place. She is strong and wild, she withstands, but not politely. She growls in her confrontation, and is still not afraid to be introspective. This woman is fierce and mature, flexing her muscle from all she has endured, and will use it to prove her strength now. She carries within her the seeds of change, and although they are not fresh blossoms, they are still vital and valuable.

Category: WomynsWerq. Tags: figurative, painting, representational.
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Feb 21-23, 20202 ArtFair 14C Juried Show
Jersey City, NJ
Selected piece ‘Power Struggle’

Oct 21-23 2016 39th Hilltop Country Day School’s Art Exhibit and Sale. Sparta, NJ
Several Exhibited pieces from current collection

Oct 9- 26 2016 Barn Gallery at the Ringwood Manor, Fall Juried Exhibition, Exhibited Piece, Red Sandstone Mountains

Oct-Dec 2015 Lore Degenstein Gallery , Susquahanna, PA
Seventh Annual Figurative Drawing and Painting Competition and Exhibition, Exhibited piece ‘Sleeping Beauty

May 2015 Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery
Landscapes 2015 Online Art Exhibition, Exhibited piece ‘Wallich Field’

April 2014 The Academy of Fine Arts, Lynchburgh, VA
Annual National Juried Art Exhibition, 41 Artists from 14 States
Juror: Elise Schweitzer – Hollins University
Exhibited piece ‘O Fish ‘O Happiness, I purge Thee’

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Exhibited Piece ‘The Land of Cockaigne’

Sept 2013 Linus Gallery
National Juried Online Exhibit Linus Gallery ‘Nature Speaks’
Exhibited piece ‘What?What?What?’

April 2013 The Ann White Academy Gallery, Lynchburg VA
National Juried Art Exhibition
Juror: David Dodge
http://www.academyfinearts.com/galleries/AnnWhite.asp

June 2, 2013 Montclair Art Museum, Monclair, NJ
Collecting Art: An Affordable Art Fair , Juried
Saturday, June 2 2013

Education
Parson’s School Of Design New York, New York 1992

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42in x 49in

medium

Acrylic, charcoal and pure pigment, Ink, Paper with graphite

Website

http://www.christinesauerteigpilaar.com/

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