Sarah Walker's 'Space Machines' Exhibition at Pierogi Gallery Explores Technological and Psychological Spaces

Sarah Walker presented her fifth solo exhibition 'Space Machines' at Pierogi gallery's new Manhattan location from September 9 to October 9, 2016. The show featured complex paintings that merge technological imagination with psychological space through dense patterns, networks, and hovering perspectives. Walker's work has evolved over two decades toward greater superimposition of forms, motion, and depth, with hot orange and yellow clusters suggesting circuits or cyborgian organs. In an interview with Mary Jones for artcritical, Walker discussed her artistic influences, including her father's neuroscience background, which shaped her view of mental space as extending into technological realms. She cited connections to artists Bill Komoski, Tom Burckhardt, Sharon Horvath, Glenn Goldberg, and Barbara Takenaga. Walker's process begins with intuitive fluid paint applications that dry into chaotic forms, serving as skeletal structures for subsequent layers. She described her paintings as mandala-like devices that operate as filters for complexity, allowing viewers to navigate multiple realities simultaneously. The artist engages with scientific and fringe narratives, such as morphic resonance theories by biologist Rupert Sheldrake and asteroid myths like 'Planet X', though these ideas serve as scaffolding rather than explicit content. Walker lives and works in Brooklyn with artist Andrew Ginzel and their son.