Artist Interview: Sara Graham
Sara Graham, Study for Organizational Structure 01 (Generator AO), archival pigment print, 2019 - 2020. Courtesy of the Artist.
Sara Graham is a Port Moody based artist whose work is concerned with the issues and ideas of the contemporary city. In this artist interview, Graham talks about her multi-disciplinary practice and how her work responds to the transitional spaces that she observes in her community through the act of “slow walking”.
Her work is now on display as part of the exhibition Wayfinding at the Art Gallery at Evergreen in Coquitlam, B.C.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Sara Graham is primarily concerned with the issues and ideas of the contemporary city. Mapping has long been a central tenet of her artistic practice. Using a cross-disciplinary approach, she creates diagrammatic drawings, sculptural models and photographs that describe and represent urban networks, traversing that liminal space between the real and the imagined. Graham’s works have been exhibited widely across Canada, including at Kenderdine Art Gallery, Saskatoon; Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto; Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax; and the Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, St. John’s. Currently based in Port Moody, she is the city’s inaugural Artist in Residence in 2019-2020.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION:
The exhibition Wayfinding brings together recent work by local artists Leanne M. Christie, Sara Graham and Devon Knowles, who live and create art in response to their cities—Coquitlam, Port Moody and Vancouver—and the urban architecture that makes up these spaces and others like them. Through mediums such as oil painting, photography and experimental stained glass, the artists consider the language and materials of city building.
ART GALLERY AT EVERGREEN:
Serving the Tri-Cities for over twenty years, the Art Gallery at Evergreen engages visitors through curated exhibitions, activated by public programs and dynamic school workshops. The AGE focuses on contemporary art and ideas explored by professional artists working in all mediums. We believe that art is integral to the fabric of daily life and seek opportunities to connect people with artists and the creative process.
