★★★★☆ (4.5/5) Deducting half a star for occasional academic drift, but adding an emotional infinity sign for the pieces that hit.
The Quiet Alchemy of Sara Wester: A Review of Her Oeuvre and Cultural Resonance sara wester
Critics have compared her to a less cynical Edward Hopper, but that comparison fails to account for Wester’s sense of temporal collapse . Hopper gave you the loneliness of a specific moment. Wester gives you the hangover after the loneliness. Her use of negative space is particularly aggressive; she leaves vast swaths of paper untouched, as if to say, “The event happened here, but the evidence has already been erased.” ★★★★☆ (4
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