Sidney Masuga
Tracking Time
Paintings by artist Sidney Masuga
Exhibition Date: Spring 2023
In her dense, textured series, artist Sidney Masuga builds and removes layers of paint with an airbrush, palette knife, and sandpaper. She must wait for each layer to dry before adding a new color. This process of addition and subtraction is inspired by the slow growth and decay of ecosystems and represents time passed.
Masuga’s geometric paintings freeze time. This series chronicles historical events through coded astrological data. Color blocks represent the position of the sun, moon, and planets on a specific date.
About Sidney Masuga
Sidney Masuga is an interdisciplinary artist based in Denver, CO. She holds a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver, BC. Masuga participated in Adams County’s first Pride with Babe Walls, a mural collective that celebrates women and non-binary folks in art. Sidney’s Pride mural is part of an ongoing series in which the artist chronicles significant historical events through coded astronomical and astrological data. Other works include Chronology and Chronostasis from the Redline Contemporary Art Center’s exhibition Checking In in which she painted a mural with color coded data for the year 2020. Learn more about Sidney.
This program is funded in part by SCFD.
