Sarah Ferguson

Sarah Ferguson

            Sarah Ferguson is a relatively new artist from America.  She specializes in color theory and her pieces reflect a constant experimentation with color.  Another feature common to all of her artworks is the use of geometry.  Ferguson says that “color invites freedom, geometric shapes invite control”.  Within her artworks, Ferguson explores the relationship and contrast between the geometric shapes and the color gradients.  Although her works of art look like they have been computer-generated, Sarah Ferguson paints each square painstakingly and also mixes all of the colors herself.  Sarah Ferguson’s exploration with the relationship between colors results in dynamic paintings.

            I chose to research Sarah Ferguson because she has been steadily gaining more attention from the art community.  I liked discovering the style of Ferguson, and I was amazed to learn that even though her paintings have a pixelated quality and appear to be designed graphically on a computer, they are all in fact hand painted.  I am inspired by her ability to consistently mix paint colors, and to lay them evenly on the canvas in such exact shapes.  My favorite painting of hers is B Five 1.  Sarah Ferguson used only rectangular shapes and different tones of the color blue to create the illusion of a flat plane dropping backwards into space.