Artist Spotlight

Today’s SRO Spotlight shines on three of the artists, Sarah Palmer, Kirsten Kay Thoen, and Rachel Sussman who are included in 31 Women in Art Photograpy, which opened on March 6^th in New York.  Although their approaches differ from subject matter to construction, it appears these artists all construct a visual space that attempts to recreate a physical paradise.

Paradise is a constructed  idea the experience of which is never reachable. It is an ideal projected onto everyday surroundings. Sarah Palmer’s photographs from As a Real House series, question the home as a physical space we create and inhabit. Kirsten Kay Thoen constructs three-dimensional objects which she then photographs. Her objects glow, suggesting a contained environment which we can only be witnessed from outside.  In Rachel Sussman’s series, Lost in Paradise, her images break the impression of the garden as a symbol of Eden by showing the evidence of the materials used to construct and sustain it.

© Sarah Palmer

© Kirsten Kay Thoen

© Rachel Sussman