Sabina Ott is an American painter, sculptor, installation and video artist known for her broad range of work and her central role in the art world as a teacher, administrator, and recently the founder of the exhibition space "Terrain" which invites artist to create installations and performances using the exterior of her Oak Park, Illinois home.
Ott was deeply inspired by Gertrude Stein, an American writer of novels, poetry, and plays. Raised in Oakland, California, Stein is a literary innovator and pioneer of modernest literature and also a collector of modernist art.
Ott was also inspired by the many places she traveled. Exhibiting since 1985, Ott has participated in over 100 solo and group exhibitions at institutions in Brazil, New Zealand, Australia, and many cities across the US. Her work is in numerous museum collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Oakland Museum of Art.
Ott was deeply inspired by Gertrude Stein, an American writer of novels, poetry, and plays. Raised in Oakland, California, Stein is a literary innovator and pioneer of modernest literature and also a collector of modernist art.
Ott was also inspired by the many places she traveled. Exhibiting since 1985, Ott has participated in over 100 solo and group exhibitions at institutions in Brazil, New Zealand, Australia, and many cities across the US. Her work is in numerous museum collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Oakland Museum of Art.
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What are the artist’s central ideas / concerns?
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“Everywhere there is somewhere”
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Printing creating a “lyrical storyline”
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Using and layering bold color palettes
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What inspires this artist?
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BOLD Color fields, contrast, letters, pattern
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Rose motifs
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Grid lines
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The writings of Gertrude Stein
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“Ott has created a series of visual notations
evoking a since of play that repeats and repeats.”
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What is the source material behind
this work?
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Ott merged intricate pictorial
imagery
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Children’s drawings
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Color polaroid’s
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Rose motifs with specific text to
create a “suite of richly worked monotypes.”
Attracted Meadow Meadows, 1996
Attracted Meadow Meadows, 1996
Left For Them in a Place,
1997
Like To Have Grammer, 1997
A Villa Of Lilacs Is Not
Magenta, 1997
“here
and there pink melon joy” 2014-- styrofoam, mirror, water, pump, live and
artificial plants canvas, light fixtures, spray foam and paint, plexiglass,
clock
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