A Summer Like No Other

In Sarah Cain's signature style of radiant abstraction, colors take the form of ambiguous shapes and textures to create expansive spaces that make way for myriad interpretations. "The world [that we live in] informs the spirit of the work but I don’t want to overtly push a meaning on the viewer," Cain shares. In The World (2013), the use of material such as string, beads, and chains centers the physicality of the work. From here, the composition suggests a separate reality as trapezoids flank toward the center and direct our perspective beyond; we are at once on the periphery looking in and on the inside peering out. – Grace Hong