Sarah Thibault

 

I am an artist living and working in Brooklyn. I am a recent graduate from the San Francisco Art Institute in San Francisco, CA. My work has been shown in Brooklyn, Miami, Minneapolis and San Francisco.

My current series of work is based around the concept of Post-Apocalyptic Nostalgia. This is a made-up nostalgia that situates itself in the aftermath of a fallout that may or may not happen. The nostalgia is rooted in fatalist outlook on human evolution, that we are doomed to self-destruct. Fake and unnatural prevails. Utopias and dystopias are placed side by side, merge into one another. Beauty  equals truth because of plastics and Photoshop. Boundaries between good and evil are blurred in an American Apparel advertisement.

 ("Cold Feet," sculpture, mixed media, 2008)

An excerpt from a review of "Untitled 6" at the Soo Visual Arts Center in Minneapolis, MN:

"I can’t write about all 20 of the artists in the show, but the standouts – Joe Sinness, Mason Eubanks, Audrey Bernard, Sarah Thibault, Garrett Perry, Jonas Lindberg, and Katherine Redford—all present work that has good reasons to ask for your engagement. The pieces cover the ground between their intention and your location; they don’t assume virtues that they don’t perform...

Sarah Thibault’s work here depicts “the homes of the collectors.” After a couple of decades in which collectors have been at least as influential in the artworld as artists or critics—think of Saatchi!—this bit of wit is more than pointed. And the cubistic treatment of these “homes”, so like David Hockney’s early work, and even reminiscent of Saul Steinberg’s cartoons, sharpens the joke, makes it formal, and spreads its commentary beyond the current moment. They're also really handsome paintings. "

- Ann Klefstad, www.MNArtists.org; June 18, 2007.