Tuesday Night Lecture Series: Sadie Laska

As part of the Tuesday Night Lecture Series (TNLS) BU College of Fine Arts School of Visual Arts presents a lecture with artist Sadie Laska, organized by the MFA Painting program.

Sadie Laska (b. 1974, West Virginia) creates frenetic, brightly colored compositions chock-full of evocative icons and slogans rendered with sardonic flair. She invokes the absurdity of contemporary life with coded constructions that reference everything from computer icons to time-worn hieroglyphs for death. Working across painting, sculpture, fabric, and printmaking, collage is the underlying principle of her practice. Laska foregrounds evocative juxtapositions, destroying and creating various meanings as her painted symbols jockey for attention amid a fragmented excess of information. Although frequently her subject matter is drawn from the dark matter of the daily news, Laska insists on humor and pleasure amidst the gloom and doom, always striking a careful balance between life-and-death and tongue-in-cheek.