Sarah Coleman Lighting

Sarah Coleman was born in Marysville, California in 1976 and was raised in Texas and Minnesota as well as California. Traveling from place to place, she noticed how each landscape possessed a unique effect, mood and sky. These environmental and cultural changes shaped her early life experience and awakened her interest in exploring the emotional and intellectual impacts of atmosphere, weather and illusion. Sarah’s most recent work addresses Illusion while delving into society's obsession with screen time and mobile devices. With layers of mirrors and glass, she creates three-dimensional paintings that use the mirror's reflection to mimic an internal, back-lit, light source, the screen. In some works, the viewer looks out into the expansive cosmos, enshrined in stars but also confronted with her or his image inside the painting, the selfie. In other words, the glass surface is so obscured, it softens and retouches the image behind it making it more pleasing to the eye, the filter.