Sarah McEneaney, Wissahickon, 2000, egg tempera on gessoed wood, 24 x 24 inches (courtesy of the artist and Tibor de Nagy Gallery)
Jennifer Samet interviews painter Sarah McEneaney.
McEneaney comments: "My paintings are totally and purposefully autobiographical, but are also edited, embellished, and fantasized. It is not true documentary in any way. There are things I am really out there about. I have made work about traumatic events in my life. But there are also things that are private, that I don’t paint. Even when I am doing a landscape or cityscape, the paintings are autobiographical. An anecdote or story is the impetus to make the painting. But I like to think that people read into the work the way they want, that they can enter and even change the story to suit them."
via:
Hyperallergic
