GALLERY 881
881 East Hastings Street
Vancouver, BC
Canada V6A 3Y1
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TWICE REMOVED
Solo Exhibition by Anne Sargent
Exhibition
March 13 - 29, 2025
Opening Reception
Thursday, March 13, 2025 from 6 - 9pm
EXHIBITION STATEMENT
These images exist as silent excerpts—portraits that are not of a specific person but of faces that have evolved through a process of combining, re-combining, and altering features. They are suspended between familiarity and anonymity, inviting introspection.
Reproduced through image transfer, these works straddle the line between printmaking and photography, incorporating the tactile qualities of both. At times distant, at times intimate, they hint at a larger, unseen context while remaining enigmatic and self-contained.
A pivotal moment in Anne Sargent’s practice came two years ago when she experimented with adding a plexiglass topsheet to an existing image. This intervention became the foundation for Taking Shape: Connected Moments, her 2023 solo exhibition, and continues to inform her work. The topsheet allows her to manipulate images through layering, obscuring, and revealing, creating compositions that shift between presence and absence.
Sargent’s artistic process is one of continuous articulation and synthesis—of ideas, intent, and technique. The human figure remains her central voice, framed within a minimalist aesthetic. She searches for images that convey the essential: raw, exposed, and emotionally honest. The people she portrays exist in a frozen moment, unembellished and unexplained, yet fully engaged with the viewer.
In Twice Removed, these layered portraits invite contemplation. They hover between memory and transformation, presence and erasure—an echo of the evolving nature of identity itself.
ARTIST BIO
Anne Sargent is a Vancouver-based figurative artist with a practice rooted in painting, sculpture, and mixed media. Born in Montreal and raised on the prairies, she carries a deep connection to the expansive Saskatchewan landscape—its open skies and endless horizons—an influence that informs her minimalist sensibilities.
Her formal Fine Arts education began at Parsons School of Design in Paris, where she completed the foundation program before earning a Fine Arts Diploma in Painting and Sculpture from Emily Carr College of Art and Design in 1988.
Sargent’s work is an ongoing search for representations that communicate something fundamental, honest, and direct. Rather than telling a specific narrative, her figures are crafted from elements—face, body, background—standing quietly in contemplation, inviting emotional engagement from the viewer.
Over the years, she has exhibited in both solo and group shows, with Taking Shape: Connected Moments (2023) marking her most recent solo exhibition. In the wake of that show, she has expanded her creative exploration into small-scale sculpture, photography, and the continued use of stencils and image transfers in her figurative work. She remains committed to pushing the boundaries of materials and form, seeking to create work that intrigues both visually and emotionally.
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