SARAH CROWNER. SERPENTEAR: READINGS BETWEEN THE ANCIENT AND THE MODERN

Crowner's connection with the Museo Amparo is related to the artist's interpretations of art history, her interest in Mexican art and its narratives, as well as the curiosity generated by the architectural spaces that allow her to establish a conversation not only with the building, but also with its history and with the institution's own collection.

The terracotta platform in cobalt blue, made with snakeskin mosaics, reinterprets one of the Museum's colonial courtyards. The installation is complemented by a pictorial intervention in the galleries that is accompanied by a selection of pieces from the Museum's Collection, used by Crowner to display a series of meditations and questionings on themes that interest her.

The entire project stands as an interface that extends the limits of artistic action, interpretation and cultural readings to generate reflections on intellectual, cultural and artistic endeavors and their scope in a world in full transformation.

Sarah Crowner (1974, Philadelphia, United States), holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1996. She also holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Hunter College, City University of New York, 2002.

In her search for a form of image making that accommodates immediacy and spontaneity, Crowner creates graphic compositions that quietly test the limits of abstract painting while engaging and reconfiguring its historical legacy.

Recent projects include solo and group exhibitions at the KMAC Museum, Kentucky, USA (2018); a participation in the 57th Carnegie International (2018); the permanent installation at the Wright Restaurant, Salomon R. Guggenheim Museum (2017); and the solo exhibition Beetle in the Leaves at MASS MoCA (2016). She has participated in several group exhibitions at Museo de Arte Zapopan, Carnegie Museum of Art (2021), American Academy of Arts and Letters, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft (2018), Mass MoCA, North Adam, MA (2017), Jewish Museum, NY (2015), WIELS Contemporary Art Centre and MoMA (both 2013), among others.