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Written by Alexa Carrasco<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s Sunday and Sadie Laska is in Forrest Hills, Queens. An average day finds her traversing the city, between Forrest Hills, Chinatown, and Industry City, carrying art supplies for either herself or an artist she works for, playing drums in her band I.U.D, going to art shows, painting. \u201cI\u2019m a painter and I can be a pretty messy painter,\u201d Sadie says. Looking at her work, a collage of loosely shifting colors and shapes that together form an uneven, imperfect whole, the label \u2018messy painter\u2019 feels fitting.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like chaos and randomness. I like to communicate that I don\u2019t completely know what I\u2019m doing and I\u2019m okay with that,\u201d she says, open and defiant. \u201cPaintings are most exciting to me when they are open and they can fail but they don\u2019t. I like to look at paintings that I can\u2019t quite understand, where you wonder why the artist made a particular decision and you wonder if you even like the work. I don\u2019t want all the information or connections to be made. I want to be confused by paintings.\u201d<\/p>\n

An artist who celebrates process and error, Sadie seems to be in a state of constant shift. \u201cI work on the floor and then later hang the works on the walls,\u201d she says. \u201cI work on many pieces at once, moving from one piece to the next with everything at various stages of completion. Sometimes I finish paintings really quickly, while others I work on over long periods of time. I\u2019ve been throwing away a lot of paintings recently. If it doesn\u2019t work, I just tear it apart and start again. There\u2019s a lot of labor happening to make unlabored feeling paintings.\u201d<\/p>\n

I like to communicate that I don\u2019t completely know what I\u2019m doing and I\u2019m okay with that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Although her current obsession is painting, Sadie once focused more on music, a member of the band Growing and drummer for I.U.D. Naturally, the two influence each other. \u201cThe experiences performing and making music have contributed to my painting practice a lot,\u201d she says. \u201cI learned to improvise and just go. My painting practice has a performative aspect. Playing music requires a particular focus and playfulness and I try to recreate that while painting. It\u2019s sort of an attitude like there are no mistakes. When I first started playing shows the best advice I was ever given was, \u2018Whatever happens just don\u2019t stop playing.\u2019 I kind of take that attitude to my painting.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Now, among a busy year with two solo exhibits, a residency in Paris, and a show in Luxembourg, Sadie is looking forward to having the time to create a new body of work that she doesn\u2019t necessarily have to show right away. She\u2019s excited to morph and grow as an artist. One way she finds her work changing, is through color. \u201cI\u2019ve recently changed my approach to color,\u201d she says. \u201cMostly, I\u2019ve minimized the colors in my paintings and started planning the palettes in advance. Color can convey anything. It can be ugly or beautiful or garish, subtle or loud, cool, warm, unsettling. Color is a lot about taste. I like color. It\u2019s disruptive and often regarded as irrational, emotional, and chaotic. Color can completely define an artist, I\u2019m still defining my\u00a0colors and I\u2019m exploring my heavy use of the color yellow.\u201d<\/p>\n

Photos: Nina Mouritzen<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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