ON STREETS LIKE OURS, IN ROOMS, UP COLLAPSING STAIRS
Sage Dawson
May 24 – June 22
Opening Reception Friday May 24, 6 – 10 PM
 
Good Citizen is pleased to present ON STREETS LIKE OURS, IN ROOMS, UP COLLAPSING STAIRS, work by Sage Dawson
 
On Streets Like Ours, In Rooms, Up Collapsing Stairs examines the history of cartographic rendering: mapping to investigate the distinct identities of spaces, dwelling rights, and contemporary perspectives of nostalgia. The work draws from on-site dwelling rights research in India, radical cartography, and phenomenological approaches to documenting abandoned and forgotten sites. Most of the places and objects explored, such as the 1163 Mary Street house in Springfield, Missouri, are nearly invisible to the communities within which they reside, though they remain intact, collecting dust and mildew atop obsolete technologies, peeling tile, furniture, and architectural remnants–such as the bathtub, a part of the 1163 Mart Street house since its construction in 1941. The work examines the production and destruction of space, and its larger impact on the people who encounter it.
 
Sage will also present an exhibition catalog with an essay by Laura Mallonee and two poems by Andrew Deloss Eaton. Laura is a writer and editor based in Brooklyn, pursuing a M.A. in NYU‘s Cultural Reporting and Criticism Department. Andrew Deloss Eaton studied poetry at the University of St. Andrews and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at Queen’s University in Belfast.
 
Sage’s work has been featured in From Here to There published by Princeton Architectural Press and in Elephant Magazine. She has recently exhibited at the International Print Center New York, the University of Pennsylvania, Pratt Munson William Proctor School of Art, the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art in Michigan, Lehman College (CUNY) in New York City, and the Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts in China. Sage has received a number of grants for her research, allowing her to lecture at Boston University, and to conduct on-site research in Nagpur, India, working at a de facto orphanage.
 
Sage holds an MFA in printmaking with a minor in museum studies from the University of New Mexico, and a BFA from Missouri State University. She writes at Printeresting, an online authority on all things print-related, where she reviews exhibitions and interviews fine art presses in the US. She also contributes to Temporary Art Review, an online publication of contemporary art criticism highlighting alternative art communities. Sage has worked on curatorial projects at the Albuquerque Museum of Art and History as well as the University of New Mexico Art Museum.