Artist Talk with Sarah Braman

Sarah Braman transforms everyday objects into works that propel light. She combines scraps of metal with translucent pieces of color to create precariously balanced sculptures, which she has called “color fields.” Her formidable abstract sculptures suggest themes of nature, family and home. In this Zoom talk, Braman discusses her larger body of work, particularly as it relates to one of her sculptures currently on view in “Neo-Abstraction: Celebrating a Gift of Contemporary Art from John and Sara Shlesinger.”

Recorded via Zoom on October 7, 2021.

Related to the exhibition "Neo-Abstraction: Celebrating a Gift of Contemporary Art from John and Sara Shlesinger," July 17 — December 05, 2021.

At the end of 2019, John and Sara Shlesinger donated 110 works of global contemporary art from their personal collection to the Georgia Museum of Art, transforming the museum’s ability to teach and exhibit cutting-edge art of the past 25 years. This exhibition celebrates their gift by showcasing a selection of works by emerging and established artists from it. “Neo-Abstraction” highlights the resurgence of abstract art among contemporary artists, including an early spin painting by Damien Hirst and a photographic abstraction by Walead Beshty. Their works vary in method. Some employ traditional forms of painterly abstraction. Others use technology to remove bodily gesture from the equation. Still others investigate the boundary between the representational and the abstract. But, for each artist, abstraction offers a way to make visible materiality, process, expression and chance. As a result, their works bring us as viewers back to a real, physical and emotional encounter with the objecthood of our world.

https://georgiamuseum.org/exhibit/neo...