{"id":83109,"date":"2024-07-05T18:21:37","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T01:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=83109"},"modified":"2024-07-18T12:14:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T19:14:30","slug":"mary-sauers-park-city-exhibit-highlights-the-ongoing-dialogue-of-self-and-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/mary-sauers-park-city-exhibit-highlights-the-ongoing-dialogue-of-self-and-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Sauer\u2019s Park City Exhibit Highlights the Ongoing Dialogue of Self and Society"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mary Sauer,” Figure with Toile Background,” oil, 11×14 in.<\/p><\/div>\n

It\u2019s unlikely anyone has tried to count the number of art students who begin their practice by drawing or painting people, though it\u2019s possible a majority do. Then again, one of 15 Bytes better writers, Hannah Sandorf Davis, was able to track how art schools typically respond when such motives are reported by their students. She tells the story<\/a> of Mary Rose Sauer, a U of U graduate who recounted serial efforts to discourage her before she left to advance her art in New York, the world\u2019s last great art center, from which she has now returned to make a home for her family, raise her daughters, and carry on painting where she began.<\/h4>\n

In loyalty to her first love, 11 of the 15 works Sauer is showing at Meyer Gallery in Park City this month are figure portraits of women, while two more depict women in architectural interiors, and the other two are New York City street scenes: one of SoHo, an historic neighborhood of cast iron facades, the other an apartment probably in the same neighborhood. None of these breaks completely with her past work. On the other hand, why they\u2019re different at all directly reflects the very difficulty Sauer\u2019s teachers warned her about, and which prematurely ended the careers of so many of her potential colleagues.<\/h4>\n