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We are wired to tell stories. To make sense out of nonsense. I’m interested in engaging not only with my own narratives, but also with the narratives that viewers create in response to my work. I love to open up space for ambiguity on the pictorial plane while also providing hints and provocations. I approach my canvases with curiosity. Making marks on a two dimensional surface creates a tension between flatness and the depth that the marks imply. That tension creates a fissure, a little crack in the universe. I feel it’s my job as a painter to crawl into that space and stumble around, to find a light switch and turn it on. Through forging images of what emerges, I hope to both invoke and trouble the fundamental narrative impulse that makes us human. The stories that you, the viewer, conjure to make sense of this imagery become an integral part of the work itself. I strive to make space for what I see and what you see. To foster the growth of a larger truth that can hold it all.

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Sarah Sagarin (b. 1976 NYC) received her BFA from the University of Montana in 2000 with a dual emphasis is painting and ceramics, and her MFA in painting from the New York Academy of Art in 2003. Sarah’s paintings have been exhibited extensively in New York City, nationally, and internationally. Her work has been included in art fairs in  NYC and Japan and her paintings are housed in several private and public collections, including the University of Montana’s permanent collection and the Copelouzos Art Museum in Athens, Greece. She has taught painting, drawing, and composition classes in a variety of settings, including as a Post Graduate Teaching Fellow for NYAA’s MFA program. Sarah has been the recipient of several prestigious residencies and fellowships, including the Bronx Museum of the Arts 2017 AIM Fellowship. She was the Director and a founding member of the South Bronx Independent Artists Coalition which hosted the annual South Bronx Open Studio Tour. Sarah is represented by Prince Street Gallery in New York City

 

Education

MFA New York Academy of Art 2003 Emphasis in Painting

BFA University of Montana 2000 Dual emphasis in Painting and Ceramics

Lorenzo de Medici Art Institute, Florence, Italy 1998 Painting and Art History

 

Awards and Residencies

2024 Vermont Studio Center AIR, Johnson VT

2023 Vermont Studio Center AIR, Johnson VT

2022 Ceramics Apprenticeship, Dan Bellow, Great Barrington, MA

2021 Casa Lu, AIR, Mexico City, MX

2020 Copelouzos Family Art Museum 35 x 35 Project, Athens, Greece

2018 Chashama, ChaNorth, Summer Residency, Pine Plains, NY

2017 Con Artist Collective, AIR, Lower East Side, NYC 

2016 Joya: Arte + Ecología AIR, Vélez Blanco, Spain

2016 AIM Fellowship, Bronx Museum of the Arts

 

Solo Exhibitions

2021 I Just Wasn't Made for These Times, Clamp Light Gallery, San Antonio, TX

2017 Happenstance has changed my plans Governor's Island Art Fair/ 4heads Governors Island, NY

2015 Inherently Flawed; Disasters in the Making La Casa Gallery, Harlem, NYC

 

2-5 Person Exhibitions

2021 Cod Liver Oil and Orange Juice, Casa Lu, Mexico City, Mexico

2020 Realism, Reality, and Surreality, BronxArtSpace, Bronx NY

2018 Angst & Contempt; New Painting Pen & Brush, NYC

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2022  Failings, Ejecta Projects, Carlisle, PA

2020 35x35 Project, Copelouzos Art museum, Athens Greece

          Postcards from the Pandemic, Beard and Weil Galleries at Wheaton College, Norton, MA

2019 Wheaton Biennial: Brush Coat Cover, Beard and Weil Galleries at Wheaton College, Norton, MA

          South Bronx Artists, Hellgate Arts, Bronx NY

          Feels Like a New Beginning, Chashama, One Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn NY

2018 Winter Residency Show Con Artists Collective, NYC

          South Bronx Artists 37 Bruckner, Bronx NY 

2017 HPGRP Gallery, Osaka, Japan

          Bronx Calling: AIM Biennial Bronx Museum of the Arts 

2016 Flesh & Bone II, Hillyer Art Space, Washington DC

          Osaka Art Fair, Osaka Japan (In partnership with HPGRP NYC)

          T.O.A.S.T One Art Space, TriBeCa, NYC

2015  XM Gallery, Crossmedia, Chelsea, NYC

          Black and White; Art Imagined in High Contrast, One Art Space, TriBeCa, NYC

          Deck the Walls, New York Academy of Art, TriBeCa, NYC

2014 Summer Salon, Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2013 Think Inside the Box, 58 Lispenard Gallery, TriBeCa, NYC 

2011 TriBeCa Ball, New York Academy of Art, TriBeCa, NYC 

2008 Salon de Refuses, Freddy's Bar, Brooklyn, NY

2007 Everyday Objects in Art; Works from the Permanent Collection, Montana Museum of Art and Culture, Missoula, MT

          Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT

          Footprints, Grand Space, Brooklyn, NY

 

Panel Discussions and Artist Talks

2021  Open X-Files, Casa Lu, Mexico City, MX

2020  Realism, Reality, and Surreality, BronxArtSpace, Bronx NY

2018  Angst & Contempt; New Painting, Pen & Brush, Moderated by Rahsaan Gandy,

 

Reviews and Press

Artnet

Editors’ Picks: 13 Things to See in New York This Week

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/editors-picks-april-2-1247603

The Feminist Art Project

Exhibition - "Angst and Contempt: New Painting"\

https://feministartproject.rutgers.edu/calendar/view/6680/?return=event_id%3D2299%26action%3Dview%26end_date%3D2018-05-31%26start_date%3D2018-05-01

Mott Haven Herald

First South Bronx Open Studio tour shows off local talent

http://www.motthavenherald.com/2018/06/02/18406/

 

Washington Post

In the galleries: Bodies that are more than flesh and bone

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/in-the-galleries-bodies-that-are-more-than-flesh-and-bone/2016/07/21/d2ef376a-4d1b-11e6-aa14-e0c1087f7583_story.html

 

Inherently Flawed; Disasters in the Making

Review by Julie Condon

http://www.lacasadearte.org/reviews/

 

The New York Times 

An Exhibition Notable for What’s Not There By Paul Berger 

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/18/nyregion/thecity/18cens.html

 

The New York Observer 

Atlantic Yards Without the Controversy By Matthew Scherman

http://observer.com/2007/02/atlantic-yards-without-the-controversy/

 

NY Arts Magazine 

Imagined Interiors Review by Jennifer Wroblewski

http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/?p=3545

 

The Brooklyn Paper 

Images the Brooklyn Public Library Doesn’t Want You to See

http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/30/7/30_07librarycensorship.html

 

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