Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, photographer, and multimedia artist. She writes about art and culture for Art in America, Hyperallergic, Flash Art, Sculpture Magazine, ArtSlant, and others. She was a 2015 Kresge Literary Arts Fellow for art criticism and a 2018 recipient of the Rabkin Foundation Prize.
Mary Temple may be best known for her immersive trompe l’oeil installations-subtle room-sized paintings of light and shadows of trees, flowers and shrubs. However, for the last decade the artist has built a body of work on canvas and paper which both departs from and amplifies the installation work. While the recent paintings share the landscape as cornerstone, they expand in color, mark and complexity of surface.
Temple has exhibited her work internationally and throughout the United States. She has completed commissioned projects for solo and group institutional exhibitions that include the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SF, CA; SculptureCenter, LIC, Queens, NY; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA; The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT; Rice Gallery, Houston, TX; Western Bridge, Seattle, WA; The Drawing Center, NY, NY; Bunkamura Museum, Tokyo, Japan and the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution in D.C. and many others.
And Roses Too exhibit on view in the Heimbold Visual Arts Center Gallery through October 13th.