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Sarah Shebaro, 'samples, loops, and remixes' - Ewing Gallery of Art, University of Tennessee
"Printmaker Sarah Shebaro’s samples, loops, and remixes, open through Thursday, April 24 at Ewing Gallery, is an impressive visual and aural juxtaposition of found sounds and images with original medium-format photography and manually altered digital shots. She links the evocative imagery from discarded album covers to her own personal narrative; in effect, she samples the highly stylized worlds that album covers often portray and manipulates them into her visual vernacular. Much like artist Christian Marclay, Shebaro is creating a hybrid of visual art and analog culture, and it’s a blissful world filled with sun glints and faded light.
Throughout the gallery, Shebaro disperses mountains of battered records, stacks of used cassette tapes, and wood-paneled stereos and speakers. It seems as if she is concerned more with mining the cover art than examining the actual recording. In “Light Listening” she cleverly places her stamp on an intricate record collage by carefully sanding exotic album covers to exaggerate the effects of wear and tear. “Decidedly Analog” reconfigures a large-scale digital print of an urban landscape into a humorous mosaic by cheekily using clear plastic cassette cases as frames. She playfully leaves watermarks and ink on her photos, and the balance of the imperfect and the idealized is key. Shebaro’s images are striking for their perceived intimacy, and yet it’s difficult to sort out the personal from the appropriated. The result is an unsettling but glamorous collection of stolen moments." - Chris Buckner, Metro Pulse
Sarah Shebaro, 'samples, loops, and remixes' - Ewing Gallery of Art, University of Tennessee
"Printmaker Sarah Shebaro’s samples, loops, and remixes, open through Thursday, April 24 at Ewing Gallery, is an impressive visual and aural juxtaposition of found sounds and images with original medium-format photography and manually altered digital shots. She links the evocative imagery from discarded album covers to her own personal narrative; in effect, she samples the highly stylized worlds that album covers often portray and manipulates them into her visual vernacular. Much like artist Christian Marclay, Shebaro is creating a hybrid of visual art and analog culture, and it’s a blissful world filled with sun glints and faded light.
Throughout the gallery, Shebaro disperses mountains of battered records, stacks of used cassette tapes, and wood-paneled stereos and speakers. It seems as if she is concerned more with mining the cover art than examining the actual recording. In “Light Listening” she cleverly places her stamp on an intricate record collage by carefully sanding exotic album covers to exaggerate the effects of wear and tear. “Decidedly Analog” reconfigures a large-scale digital print of an urban landscape into a humorous mosaic by cheekily using clear plastic cassette cases as frames. She playfully leaves watermarks and ink on her photos, and the balance of the imperfect and the idealized is key. Shebaro’s images are striking for their perceived intimacy, and yet it’s difficult to sort out the personal from the appropriated. The result is an unsettling but glamorous collection of stolen moments." - Chris Buckner, Metro Pulse