Sara Sizer

No paint or other substance a painter might use is visible on the surfaces of the pictures Sara Sizer (b. Dallas, Texas, 1967; lives and works in Berlin) creates. They do not derive their form from any painterly medium. Sizer makes her ''paintings'' by using chemical bleach to discolor the raw canvases to varying degrees; her ''designs,'' meanwhile, gain contour as she pulls threads out of the monochrome surface. On her bleached canvases, the artist captures fleeting moments, a particular incidence of light or shadow falling across them, as though their surfaces were photosensitive. They are also tactile, so much so that they cast an almost irresistable spell. With an essay by Juilian Heynen.