BiographySally Kauffman explores the common ground where abstraction and figuration coincide in paintings. Using figure and place as a starting point, her work celebrates pleasure through the sensuality of paint and interplay of colors. Almost human-scale figures painted in saturated, flowing color on large format canvas entice the viewer to engage in their own narrative. Kauffman paints from personal experience, capturing moments in snapshots and digitally manipulating the composition and intensity of color. The dense, saturated images become the source for the paintings. The act of painting is the ultimate delight: stroking, swiping and splashing paint in transparent to opaque layers until a luscious surface emerges.
Kauffman has exhibited widely in and around Washington, DC. Her works reside in the collection of the DC Art Bank and the Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery in Fairfax, VA. She has received awards from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the Corcoran College of Art and Design. She received a degree in painting from the Corcoran College of Art and Design and a BFA in painting and printmaking from the University of Kansas.
