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M.E. Sparks uses painting, collage, and video to examine relationships between surface image and materiality, as well as content and legibility. Their work often pulls apart and recombines borrowed forms that are art historical and autobiographical, with an interest in the moment when an image loses its representational solidity. The figurative traces that remain in Sparks' paintings explore form, slips, origins, and resist singular classification. Recent works employ methods of abstraction through cutting, draping, and layering painted canvases with recycled fabrics. Sparks reimagines flatness and rigidity, exploring the potential vulnerability and transformative aspects of movement within imagery and representation. Addressing complex tensions in the depiction of femininity as seen through a patriarchal lens, Sparks engages with ideas surrounding uncertainty and unsettled spaces within historical narratives. They hold an MFA from Emily Carr University and a BFA from NSCAD University, and their work has been exhibited in several notable venues across Canada and internationally.
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