Sarah Hunter SOMA NewArt Gallery Exhibit - "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness" - June 25 to August 1, 2010 Available Paintings - Contact gallery for more information and prices.
Image:
Catch And Release, 20" x 24"
Passersby, 24" x 20"
Sarah Hunter - Artist Statement
I am a still life painter based
out of Philadelphia. My work depicts an imagined future where humans have gone
the way of the passenger pigeon and the remaining animals have reclaimed the
earth. Here within a newly changed environment characters interact with the
debris of a past civilization.Playing out some sort of obscure narration, the paintings attempt to
address themes of uncertainty, displacement, and the drive to survive.
My work is influenced greatly by
early naturalist artists (including Audubon and Mark Catesby.) I also spend a
lot of time looking at the dioramas at the Academy of Natural Sciences. I first
saw these dioramas when I was a small child and have been trying on some level
to recreate a bit of that feel. When constructing dioramas the artists used
different elements and techniques (painting, sculpting, taxidermy) each with
different realities that add up to a coherent whole.I try in my work to combine painted cutout-like forms,
rendered object and graphite drawn marks to create a world that is accepted as
a snippet of a bigger place.
I studied oil painting at the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and have shown most recently with SOMA
Gallery (Cape May), The Rodger Lapelle Gallery (Philadelphia) and The Painting
Center (New York).
SARAH HUNTER - Resume
Born: Philadelphia, PA 1983
Education:
2006 University
of Pennsylvania, BFA
2005 Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts, Certificate in Painting
Upcoming Exhibitions:
2012 La Salle University Art Museum, Solo
Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA
2010 Philadelphia Painters, The Painting
Center, New York, NY.
Current Exhibition:
2010 Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, SOMA Gallery, Cape
May, NJ
Selected Past Exhibitions:
2010 On
Birds of Passage, Rodger La Pelle Galleries, Philadelphia PA
The Art Gangs All Here, Rodger La Pelle
Galleries, Philadelphia PA
2009 35/25: Twenty Five Painters Under
Thirty Five, The Painting Center, New York, NY
2008 Animal
Histories, The Painting Center Project Room, New York, NY
Theory of the Earth, Rodger La
Pelle Galleries, Philadelphia, PA
2007 Scenes in Reference to a Kingdom, Rodger La Pelle Galleries, Philadelphia
Feeling Good About Growing Up,
Midwives Collective Gallery Phila.
2006 The
Moore Art Gallery, Moorestown, NJ
New
Talent Exhibition, The
Rosenfeld Gallery. Philadelphia PA
Betsy Meyer Memorial Exhibition: Landscape Revisited, The Main Line Art
Center,
Haverford, PA
Fox Art Gallery, University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Out
of the Academy, The American College, Bryn Mawr, PA
2005 Annual
Student Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
Philadelphia, PA
Emerging
Artist Exhibition, Artist House Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2004 Annual
Student Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2003 Dreams to Interpretations, The Ellen
Powell Tiberino Memorial Museum of Contemporary Art
Selected Awards/ Residencies
2010 The Vermont Studio Center, October Residency,
VSC Grant
2006 Heicklen
& Bogash Award, Main Line Art Center, Betsy Meyer Memorial
Exhibitions:
2005 Lance Roy Lauffer Memorial Prize, Pennsylvania Academy of the
Fine Arts
2004 The William Emlen Cresson
Memorial Travel Scholarship, Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts
Eleanor S. Gray Prize for Still Life, Pennsylvania Academy of
the Fine Arts
Bibliography:
2009 35/25 (Twenty-five Painters
under Thirty-Five) Exhibition Catalogue With
Essay by John Yau
2008 First Friday Focus, Citypaper, Lori
Hill, 4-08
Come
What May For May's First Friday, University City Review, R.B. Strauss, 4-30-08
2006 A
Talented Group, Mainline Ticket, Marie Fowler
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