Sally Schluter Tardella
SUGAR SUGAR SCAPES PLUMBING WALL ROOMS MAP PLACE BOOKS MEMORY PALACE WARDROBE WITNESS SEARCH PARALLEL MOTION POEMS RITUALS
Sally Schluter Tardella

SUGAR SUGAR

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Artist Statement

I intend Sugar Sugar as a play between language and formal elements. I dismantle discarded toys, random home décor, and kitchen tools, putting pieces together to make a sweet dessert or cake. I color the structure, using paint like icing to unify and empower the new form.

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SCAPES

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Artist Statement

In these drawings I use decorative wallpaper pattern as a cue for the nostalgia of childhood and time passed — a floor plan, cross section, or elevation view of a house, stage, orchard, or garden. “House” is an anonymous object, a symbol of the ideal or simplified American “home”.

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 plumbing

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Artist Statement

In my dreams I fly through fixtures and networks of house plumbing. The view is a longitudinal section -- a floor plan, cross section and elevation of the plumbing system. I encounter sexual desire and digestive function: the reproductive and digestive systems of body plumbing.

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wall

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Artist Statement

The paintings in this series represent individual walls. Decorative wallpaper pattern is a cue for the nostalgia of time passed, of home, of childhood. There are moments of clarity and obfuscation—of almost being able to see through a screen into deep space. We are invited in by tactility and materiality but cannot quite see or understand the space beyond.

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rooms

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Artist Statement

 

Rooms is a new series in the memory palace I am building—an evolving architectural space I visualize to organize and recall information. Each painting in this series functions as a floor plan of a single room in which I place multiple memories associated with that space in my palace.

 

map

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Artist Statement

 

The map paintings are like autobiographies, maps representing specific locations in my memory and experience. I was there. In the act of painting, I revisit these places of my past; the painting is a map of the journey.