Swanee (2011) Sculpture by Sari Grove

Sari Grove: a self-employed visual artist... (pic shows me July 17, 2011 after I cut all my hair off)
Artist Statement:
I like to wait until something significant happens...I have time, & I don’t really like to create unless there is a good reason, something needs to be
remembered, a lesson needs to be taught, someone needs to be venerated...
Purpose(which is different from meaning), is a new slant that I have added to my skillset... The sculpture of the Trumpeter Swan is not
only beautiful but it will attract real swans to a pond & detract predators...
I also care deeply about process, which means that how something is created is integral to the finished work of art...So in my painting
“Tempesta” (‘stormy’), I hand pulled the linen & hammered in black steel carpet tacks along the back & hammered copper tacks along the edges for
support & what I didn’t do was use a staple gun with staples, which really changes the way you touch the wood stretchers...
This winter I wove giant nests out of Sisal rope, to try to make a nicer place for the swans to sit on instead of sitting on the ice...Trying to get
approvals from the city to put the nests out led me to the sculpture, which seemed to follow as a nesting site signifier...My path has moved to the 3
dimensional, & into larger scale public projects...I sense my fishbowl expanding...
Mentors:
via artist.conspiracy, Art Business Coach, Alyson Stanfield (I also put this here to help other artists if they need some coaching...)
Selected Commercial Galleries & Alternative Venues:
(I like to work with a gallery director just one at a time, & I put all of my energies into that, & make that great, & if the location is beautiful & the people are nice & the
art makes you inhale deeply because it is so good, then it is a success, & I don’t really
care that much about the money part, but it seems to be better for some reason because I don’t care...)
2011 Bluffs Gallery, Scarborough (this gallery overlooks the Bluffs, which are cliffs on
Lake Ontario- I think interesting locations are so much a part of the viewing experience)! Curator: a lady named Susan Dimitrakopolous
2010 National Mailbox, Yorkville (an experiment in converting web viewers to bricks & mortar) Owner: Don Tannahill
2009 Water Lily, Davisville (Water Lily was a health supplement place with some eco-art showing as well) Director: an exotic creature from an India lineage family in
Africa named Usha Makan 2008 Kohl Gallery of Arts, Eglinton Director: Gary Kohl who was an art teacher at
Toronto schools 2007 Scollard Street Gallery, Yorkville, Grand Opening of Gallery Director: Serge
Chriqui who came from running a wood flooring business 2006 Yorkville Gallery, Yorkville Director: Chun Chen an artist with a sister who
owns real estate & a Chinese sensibility 2005 Lanes Gallery, Hazelton Lanes (Lanes gallery had gorgeous Persian carpets & I
had all their giant window space looking out from Hazelton lanes mall) Director: Bahman...

• Nationality: CANADA
• Date of birth : 1966
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary Canadian Artists