Blog: Review: Sarah Cain’s 1,000-square-foot painting is just the start

But goofiness — and girliness — enter the picture, disrupting the muscularity of Cain’s compositions. The silliness comes in the form of trinkets and mementos that the 39-year-old artist has glued to the surfaces of her works: beaded bracelets, chain-link necklaces, plastic prisms, fluffy pompoms, pretty seashells, even cat whiskers, as well as a hula hoop, a dozen coat hangers, a locket and a smattering of snapshots.