Sarah Slavick

Sarah Slavick' s works are geometric abstraction. She literally constructs her oil-on-wood paintings from small rectangles she paints separately and later puts together. Sometimes the rectangles are perfect squares that give the painting the rigorous order of a grid. But on other occasions the rectangles are irregular in size and thickness, creating a surface like an interlocking puzzle that constantly, unpredictably thrusts forward and recedes. The forms on these blocks relate to cells, organs, fluids or canals that in their connections and flow imaginatively "map" the human body. Occasionally Her systems of interconnection look like actual maps of, say, a transit system, with all its stops or an irregular landscape viewed from above with routes superimposed as lines of dots.

Each organic shape generally occupies an entire rectangle, so the form's essential amorphousness is held and firmed up, so to speak, her hard-edged blocks. This gives the satisfaction common to geometric abstract, though it has been warmed by the human references and her lustrous sense of color. Here, as in the tighter, more miniscule patterns, a concentrated energy is being created, and she seems to want to make of it something at once personal, cosmic and momentous.

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