Opener 33</br>Sarah Cain—Enter the Center

Installation view, Opener 33: Sarah Cain — Enter the Center, Tang Teaching Museum, 2021

Sarah Cain, enter the center, 2016, acrylic, chains, beads, and stick on canvas, 24 x 21 ¼ inches, collection of Iris Zurawin Marden

Sarah Cain, Mister, 2012, acrylic, canvas, sticks on canvas, 89 x 74 ¼ x 7 inches, courtesy of the artist

Sarah Cain, Martha, 2018, acrylic and UV seal on stretched and hanging canvas, 84 x 48 inches, collection of Beth Rudin DeWoody

Sarah Cain, Martha (detail), 2018, acrylic and UV seal on stretched and hanging canvas, 84 x 48 inches, collection of Beth Rudin DeWoody

Sarah Cain, RBG, 2018, acrylic, gouache, necklace on canvas, 25 ¼ x 11 ¾ inches, collection of Catherine and Robert Hilliard, Corpus Christi, Texas

Sarah Cain, Untitled (The Void), 2020, acrylic, latex, beads, plastic thread on canvas, 90 x 60 x 3 inches, courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles

Sarah Cain, Ghosting, 2020, rope, acrylic on canvas, 69 x 49 x 5 inches, courtesy of the artist and Vielmetter Los Angeles

Sarah Cain, music book (detail), 2008–2021, gouache on approximately 25 bound music sheets, 13 in x 20 inches each, courtesy of the artist

Sarah Cain brings rooms to life with experiments in color, composition, and non-conformity. Cain modifies canvases by cutting, sewing, and attaching found objects. She also paints floors, walls, and furniture on-site, grounding each space she occupies in the present tense. Her process of creation and destruction is steeped in the history of painting and feminist art practices. Enter the Center features more than a dozen major paintings from 2012 through 2020, a site-specific hand-painted gallery floor, painted furniture, and a new facsimile artist book.

Sarah Cain was born in Albany, New York, in 1979 and grew up in nearby Kinderhook. She earned her MFA at the University of California Berkeley in California and her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Recent solo exhibitions include We Will Walk Right Up to The Sun at the San Francisco International Airport; My favorite season is the fall of the patriarchy at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; and Sarah Cain: In Nature at The Momentary, Bentonville, Arkansas. In 2014, she was included in I was a double at the Tang Teaching Museum. Cain currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

Opener 33: Sarah Cain—Enter the Center is curated by Dayton Director Ian Berry in collaboration with the artist.

Sarah Cain: Enter the Center is made possible with generous support from Iris Zurawin Marden ’71. The Opener Series is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts, Ann Schapps Schaffer ’62 and Mel Schaffer, Beverly Beatson Grossman ’58, and Friends of the Tang.

Exhibition Name

Opener 33
Sarah Cain—Enter the Center

Exhibition Type

Opener Series

Solo Exhibitions

Place

Wachenheim Gallery

Dates

Jul 10, 2021 - Dec 19, 2021

Curators

Opener 33: Sarah Cain—Enter the Center is curated by Dayton Director Ian Berry in collaboration with the artist.

Artists

Sarah Cain

Student Staff

Silas in front of a snow covered hill with a building in the background.

Silas Seno Mitchell

Curatorial Intern

Three colorful painted couches, a colorful painted floor, and two colorful paintings on a gallery wall

Past Exhibitions 2021

Opener 33Sarah Cain—Enter the Center