*Aperture,* graphite, charcoal, conté, pastel, sand, pumice, wax, oil paint on paper, 40” x 60”

Form+Content Gallery presents What Remains, new drawings and installation by Michal Sagar.

Exhibition Dates: October 06 – November 12, 2022

Opening Reception: Saturday, October 8, 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Free and open to the public

Artists' Talk Thursday, October 13, 7:00 pm
Free and open to the public

Artist’s Statement:
An x-ray of my mouth with a dead tooth and rose petals readied for perfume in a stone sink on the streets of Paris. Two images interacting: human teeth vital to our carnivorous heritage and soft shapes of roses after they are picked curving towards their demise.

Where is the interplay?

*Serpentine Line of Beauty,* graphite, charcoal, conté, pastel, sand, pumice, wax, oil paint on paper, 40” x 60”

Teeth hold the story for the future to read. Delicate rose petals – flush in their beauty – call to life all the openings.

A tender graphite line maps the structure. Charcoal enlivens a darker, yet nuanced mark. Conté and pastel activate forms; thin washes of oil paint mixed with sand, pumice, and wax build layers of connective tissue.

Drawn with great haste, the movement is specific, tied to forms of the female and the ocean.

In the bite is my personal story. Layers of the body. Space of the mind within the body. Fragile objects on the ground. My mother buried at the bottom of the ocean. Coming to terms – an archeology of time.

Artist’s Biography
Michal Sagar is the Visual Arts Department Chair at Breck School and a member of Form+Content Gallery in Minneapolis, MN. She received a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Her multimedia work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Sagar’s most recent solo shows include: What Remains and A Fertile Emptiness at Form+Content Gallery; The Beginning of the Third Dream at the Schaeffer Gallery, Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, MN; Excavation at the Tychman Shapiro Gallery in Minneapolis, MN; and Coexistence at the Acanthe Gallery in La Ferté Loupière, France.

.Exhibition Hours: Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 12:00 – 6:00 pm
Appointments are not required.

If you wish to visit outside of gallery hours please email formandcontent@gmail.com to make an appointment.

Exhibition Essay
Frenchy Lunning contributed an essay, Michal Sagar: What Remains, in response to Michal’s current exhibition.

Press: MPLS ART.COM What Remains: A Contemplative Series Posted September 28th, 2022 Jocelyn Suzuka Figueroa

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