This contemporary artwork features a textured, wood-grain chessboard pattern, with red and tan squares surrounded by white, wrinkled hands reaching inward from the edges. The repetitive, grid-like composition and contrasting colors create a visually striking image, while the hands suggest a sense of confinement or entrapment within the game-like structure. The artwork's style and technique blend elements of realism and abstraction, inviting the viewer to consider the broader societal or psychological implications of the game motif. Overall, this piece seems to explore themes of control, power dynamics, and the human experience within constrained systems. ...
Sarah Margnetti blends the body with architectural elements in comic hybridizations that unsettle notions of gender, sexuality, and domesticity. Her figures move seamlessly through surfaces and change their shape, only revealing themselves in fragmented parts that are depicted in stylistic contrast to meticulously wrought trompe l’oeil’ architectural materials. Shifting intuitively between medium and scale, Margnetti creates murals, textiles, furniture, and architectural interventions that display an array of technical and performative modes while thinning the divide between interiority and exteriority. ...
