Sanderson are pleased to present Saudade, a new exhibition of works by Loren Marks.

Loren Marks (b.1991 Aotearoa, New Zealand) is an artist based between Naarm Melbourne and Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Her artworks present ethereal and dreamlike scenes whereby figures emerge from the alchemic realms of paint.

‘With motions reminiscent of Helen Frankenthaler’s “soak-stain” technique, Marks applies pools of thinned pigment to her surface. Colours bloom and mix into one another as they soak into the fibres of the canvas, bringing forth impressions of classical scenes and landscapes. From these abstracted planes, the artist adds and removes pigment allowing her figures to appear and dissolve into the turpentine washes of each layer.’

Saudade is a Galician-Portuguese word that has been used in music and poetry since the 16th century. Although the word has no direct English translation, it refers to a feeling of bittersweet longing, a persistent but indefinable yearning for something absent.

Loren Marks has found saudade to be a fitting description of her life over the last year. For her, saudade means a desire for something that does not exist, something ephemeral, simultaneously bygone and latent, and the ambivalent emotions that arise from change. Read full exhibition essay by Maya Love here.

To request an exhibition catalogue please contact the gallery via email - info@sanderson.co.nz

Price

  • Free - All Welcome

Date

  • Wed 05 Feb

Time

  • 5:30 pm — 7:00 pm

Address

  • Osborne Lane, 2 Kent Street
  • Newmarket
  • Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland, 1023