British Vogue’s Funmi Fetto sits down with emerging artist Sahara Longe to talk all about her new exhibition at Timothy Taylor Gallery in London, titled “New Shapes.”
Sahara Longe’s first solo show at esteemed London gallery Timothy Taylor, and the artist is nursing a hangover. But it’s a happy one. “I had a great time!” says Longe. Even a sartorial disaster on the night didn’t dampen her mood. “Oh my God,” she tells me conspiratorially, “So you remember the Vivienne Westwood dress I was wearing? I knew it was too small but I bought it anyway. And then yesterday I hugged someone and the zip popped.
At 29, Longe, known for her semi-abstract figures painted in rich tones, is fast becoming one of the hottest talents on the art scene, with insiders touting her as the next . In fact, the expectations for “New Shapes” were palpably high, particularly considering that Longe’s solo booth at Frieze last October was both critically acclaimed and commercially successful. To wit: everything sold out.But Longe not only met people’s expectations for “New Shapes”; she exceeded them. Her collection of gargantuan portraits of people in everyday social settings are rendered in a newly geometric style, hence the title of the show.
“For this [show], I was looking at a lot of street scenes by various artists and how they depicted people just walking by…you know, when you walk past people in the street and you sort of look at them and wonder who they are and what their lives are like? It’s about that sort of weird interaction.” She cites German expressionist Ernst Kirchner as an inspiration as well as Kandinsky . Much of the overarching inspiration, however, came from the industrialist British painter L. S. Lowry.
That said, not all of Longe’s reference points are quite as highbrow; she’s equally inspired by the party-loving crowd in Brixton, where her studio is located. “Sometimes I would work really, really late, and I’d be shuffling home, and there would always be concerts at the O2 or people going out on Brixton Road, and I’d see all these people in the lights. The colors and what people were wearing always kind of affected me.
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