These paintings are from a new series of work titled Rube’s Orchard presented during Art Basel Miami at the NADA Art Fair with Oolong Gallery.
In her latest abstract works, Sally Scopa thinks through the creativity, seasonality, and strangeness of being in a body. In Upside-down Orchard, spherical, fruit-like forms float upwards and draw the viewer's eye around the scene. The piece is a meditation on what it means to nurture something outside the self, whether painting, plant or loved one. For Scopa, painting brings a sense of stillness, excitement, and an awareness of the body; her work is an invitation to share in this focused state. Her paintings take shape through a process of layering, erasing back down to excavate previous layers, and allowing moves to accumulate intuitively, each in response to the one before.
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