{"id":34326,"date":"2019-09-06T01:00:10","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T08:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=34326"},"modified":"2019-09-05T17:27:27","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T00:27:27","slug":"sara-molcan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/06\/sara-molcan\/","title":{"rendered":"s\u00e1ra mol\u010dan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=34327\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-34327\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34327\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/saramolcan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"5212\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Self-portraiture is almost always a vulnerable endeavor, and that is definitely the case when it comes to the most recent work of Vancouver based painter <a href=\"https:\/\/saramolcan.com\">S\u00e1ra Mol\u010dan<\/a>. S\u00e1ra has taken late-night selfies off of the phone, and onto the canvas. Here&#8217;s why:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;[She] captures the universal desire to be liked through her large-scale paintings. Using herself as a vessel, Mol\u010dan\u2019s work speaks to the careful curation of our own displays of emotions, our imperfect existence, and the ambivalence towards romantic partners in an effort to seem like you don\u2019t care &#8230;\u00a0Drawing inspiration from user interfaces, sexting, and identity play, her larger-than-life selfies demand to be removed from context and placed back in the digital world.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Her paintings are beautiful, vulnerable, and very candid &#8230; and I just chose the tame ones! <em>ps. Don&#8217;t drink and text. Happy weekend.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-portraiture is almost always a vulnerable endeavor, and that is definitely the case when it comes to the most recent work of Vancouver based painter S\u00e1ra Mol\u010dan. S\u00e1ra has taken late-night selfies off of the phone, and onto the canvas. Here&#8217;s why: &#8220;[She] captures the universal desire to be liked through her large-scale paintings. Using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34326"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34326"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34340,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34326\/revisions\/34340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}