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!!IN L.A.: Sarah Cain "Freedom is a Prime Number" @ Honor Fraser Monday September 24, 2012

Honor Fraser Gallery is pleased to announce freedom is a prime number, Sarah Cain's first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. Some things about Sarah Cain:

1) Sarah Cain enjoys doing things the wrong way, always starting out with a mistake, an accident, an

errant line, an unruly string, an ugly shirt, illegible graffiti, a drunken pattern, a counterfeit pimp's horde of fake gold chain, etc. Like a radiating galaxy, they spiral a cosmos worth of color and line around that first mistake. It's not rebellious exactly, or chaotic even, just fuck-ups are always more interesting. Sublimity, according to this and that scholar, is achieved through the destruction of order. Nowhere better to start than a mistake.

2) "freedom is a prime number" is a story best left unexplained. But though numbers are pure order (mathematics often mistaken for a language without ambiguity), prime numbers have no pattern or logic. They are wild and unbroken. Divisible only by one and itself.

3) Important to note: physical space is psychological space.

4) Abstraction may free us from representation, but it doesn't free us from reality, even a fever dream is just reality boiled over. It's delusions and phantasms are very real.

5) The hard-edged abstractions of Frank Stella warp and bend, the semiotics of Ree Morton shudder under splashes of iridescence, the popular rhythms and crafty appreciations of Mary Heilman suffuse a broken picture plane, all attempted with the spiritual seriousness of Imi Knoebel and the subtleties of Richard Tuttle. Does Sarah Cain love Cy Twombly? She does.

6) Sometimes Sarah Cain's canvases stretch into the space, sometimes space penetrates into the canvas. Bones are revealed, colors leak out all over the floor, a prismatic spirit writhes all over the room. It can get messy. Form dissolving into formlessness and back again.

7) These paintings are spirited. Interpret that however you want to.

Following are a few images from the opening reception.

-Amy Duran

Sarah Cain

Freedom is a Prime Number

Honor Fraser

Through October 13, 2012