Starfish
Solo exhibition at Royal NoneSuch Gallery in San Francisco, CA
January 12 – February 19, 2019
Royal NoneSuch Gallery presents Starfish, a solo exhibition of five new large-scale oil paintings by Sarah Thibault. The title, Starfish, refers to the slang phrase, “to starfish,” which Urban Dictionary defines as “the act of spreading one’s body out in bed, each limb and the head creating the 5 points of a star like a starfish.” The exhibition aims to articulate and magnify female and femme experiences and allow those perspectives to take up space in the gallery.
In the spirit of movements like the Women’s March and #metoo, these large-scale paintings are meant to combat the continued assaults on the female, femme and non-binary body by the government, the media and patriarchal culture. The five paintings, one for each point of the starfish, are based on Thibault’s height—using that measurement as the smallest dimension. The use of the first-person point of view, and the orange and pink color palette of salt lamps prioritize a feminine perspective that is intimate yet expansive
Starfish is a verb, Netflix takes time and space is measured in arms: A Conversation with artist & Royal NoneSuch Gallery founder, Elizabeth Bernstein, about the exhibition.
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