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Bluff by Sarah Emerson
About the Item
Born 1974
Education
2000 Master of Fine Art (Distinction) Goldsmiths College, London England
1997 Bachelor of Fine Art Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta Ga
1997 Mobility Student School of the Museum of Fine Art, Boston Ma
Solo Exhibitions
2007 “The Dark Side” SLM Projects, Roswell, GA
“The End is Near” Screen Arts, St. Augustine, FL
2005 “Big Darkness” Bartlett Gallery, Provincetown MA
“The Moon is Down” Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn NY
2004 Cosmic Galerie with Vidya Gastaldon and Maria Marshall, Paris France
“Soft Mast” part of the artist series Don’t Trust Anyone Over Thirty,
Real Art Ways, Hartford CT
2003 “Do the Collapse” Thomas Erben Gallery, New York NY
1997 “Bobbing for Water” Old Highland Bakery, Atlanta GA
1996 “Funnel Vision” Vantosh Gallery, Atlanta GA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008 “All that Glitters” Swan Coach House, Atlanta, GA
“The Possibility of Framing Infinity” Agnes Scott College, Atlanta, GA
2007 “Holiday Greetings from 10 Artsist” AG Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
“Innovations, Gallery walk at Terminus, Atlanta, GA
“Little Things Mean A Lot” Swan Coach House, Atlanta, GA
“Dead Flowers” Eyedrum, Atlanta, GA
Mason Murer Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
“Keep Abreast” Screen Arts, St. Augustine, FL
Innovations” Gallery walk at Terminus, Atlanta, GA
“Language” Spruill Gallery, Atlanta, GA
“Paper, Fire, and Light” Spruill Gallery, Atlanta, GA
“Talent Show” Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
“New Eden” Tastes Like Chicken Art Space, Brooklyn, NY “The No Name Show” SLM Projects, Roswell, GA
“Suckers & Biters: Love, Lollipops, and the Exquisite Corpse” Ad Hoc Art, Brooklyn, NY
2006 “Mischief” Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY
“Paradise Lost” Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York NY
2005 “Post Notes” curated by Adam Carr, ICA London, UK
“the Real Party” Real Art Ways, Hartford CT
2004 “Enchantment” Art Space, New Haven, CT
“East of the Sun and West of the Moon” White Columns, New York NY
2003 “Young Generations” Tache-Levy Gallery, Brussels Belgium
2002 “Boys and Girls” A Priori Presents, London England
“Core” Creative Alliance, Baltimore MD
“New American Talent 17” curated by Kathryn Kanjo, Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin TX
“The Big Picture III” Baltimore Museum of Contemporary Art, Baltimore MD “Twenty-Eight” The Whole Gallery, Baltimore MD
“Substatic” Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, NY
2001 “The Tender Trap” London House, London England
“Hi Kickin’ Hi Falutin’” VTO Gallery, London England
“Cream” Howell Mill, Atlanta GA
“Glamourhammer” Beckett Boxing Ring, London England
“Insider Trading” Mandeville Hotel, London England
2000 “Assembly, Stepney City, London England
“MA Degree Show” Goldsmiths College, London England
“Juicy” Project Space, London England
1999 “Valentine” Old Highland Bakery, Atlanta GA
1998 Alexandria Museum of Art, Juror, Jerry Cullum, Alexandria, LA
“Dana Pond Awards in Painting” School of the Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA
“19th Annual Arts on the River” SCAD Juror, Holly Solomon, Savannah, GA
“LaGrange National XX Biennial” Juror Siri J. Engberg, LaGarange Museum,
LaGrange, GA
“A Journey Into Lifestyle, Eroticism, and Imagery” Old Lake Claire Baptist
Church, Alternative Space, Atlanta, GA
1997 “Drawing and Printmaking” Colony Square, Atlanta, GA
“The November Project” Old Lake Claire Baptist Church, Alternative Space,
Atlanta GA
“ACA Juried Show” Juror J. Fleming, ACA Gallery, Atlanta, GA
“The Really, Really Small Painting Exhibition” ACA Gallery 100 Jurors Marcia Cohen, Tom Francis, Anthony Greco, Atlanta, GA
“Degrees of Excellence” ACA Gallery, Colony Square, Atlanta, GA
Arts and Crafts Council, Juror Alan Hing, Georgia Dome, Atlanta, GA
1996 Printmaking Exhibition, Juror Norman Wagner, Bellaluna, Atlanta, GA
Group Show, ACA Gallery 100, Atlanta, GA
“200x200” New Visions Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1995 “Now Here-Outdoor Installation” Autrey Mill, Alpharetta, GA
1994 “ACA Juried Show” Juror Chris Scoates, ACA Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Awards and Achievements
2007 Forward Arts Foundation Emerging Artist Award
2000 Warden’s Purchase Prize, Goldsmiths College
1998 Honorable Mention, Arts on the River, Savannah College of Art and Design
1996 CGR Scholarship, Dragon Foundation Atlanta College of Art
Publications
“Woodland Melancholy” by Felicia Feaster, Creative Loafing Online December 14, 2007
“Happy Blendings” Metropolitan Home, December 2007, p. 116
“To Keep Abreast” by Paulette Perhach & Ashley Gallam, Drift Magazine Oct 2007 Ed 002 p. 35
“Stylish paint-by-numbers” by Jerry Cullum, Atlanta Journal Constitution October 4, 2007
Catalogue Spruill Gallery, “Language” September 2007
New American Paintings, Southeast Edition, curated by Charlotta Kotik June 2007
“Q&A/ Stuart Horodner” by Kirsten Tagami Atlanta Journal Constitution June 6, 2007
“In the Gallery” Folio Weekly Jacksonville, FL, February 27, 2007
“The Darker Side of Sweet” by Denise Markonish Real Art Ways Publications 2005
“Fractured Fairy Tales” by Judy Birke, New Haven Register December 5, 2004
“Enchant Terribles” by Meral Agish, The New Haven Advocate November 25, 2004
"For Three Young Artists, a Search for the Spiritual" by Benjamin Gonacchio, New York Times,
CT Sunday March 28, 2004
“May Picks” by Christopher Chambers NY Arts Magazine Vol 8, No 5, May 2003, p 55
Centrefold Scrapbook, 60 unique books-One different collaborative drawing done in each book,
drawings done in collaboration with Diann Bauer and Nicole Urbanic-Lichf, 2003
New American Paintings Northeast Edition, curated by Charlotta Kotik February 2003
“ Short List” M-The New York Art World, Art Reviews by Lily Faust, March 2002, pp 14-15
“The Front” Shout, February 2002, p 11
“Erotica” by Lea Keel Creative Loafing March 28, 2001
“Whipped Cream” by Cathy Byrd Creative Loafing March 28, 2001
Catalogue, Assembly Exhibition 2000
Catalogue, Goldsmiths College 2000
Catalogue, Alexandria Museum of Art, 1998
“Look Back, Get Down” by Cathy Byrd Creative Loafing Jan 3, 1998
The Scene Feb 21 1998
“Praying for Sheetrock” by Cathy Byrd Creative Loafing November 22, 1997
“Learning Curve” by Donald Locke Creative Loafing December 27, 1997
“Women’s Work” by Cathy Byrd Creative Loafing December 28, 1996
Collections
apriori, London England
Atlanta College of Art, Georgia
Graham Beck, South Africa
Carmine Boccuzzi and Bernard Lumpkin, New York
Steven Butz, New York
Claudia Cargnel and Fred Bugada, Paris France
Wesley Eder, Tennessee
Financial Times, FT.com, London England
Goldsmiths College, London England
King and Spalding, Georgia
Dorothy Lanier, New York
Sara Moore, New York
Progressive Corporation, Ohio
Ruth West, Georgia
ARTIST'S STATEMENT:
In my paintings I use the violence and romantic sadness of our disappearing natural landscape to provoke a sense of fragility and splendor for the viewer.
I am deeply inspired by the increasing areas of compressed shapes in urban areas and also our increasing need for manufactured landscapes, including parks and hunting lands for hire. Urban development is inevitable and as we squeeze into our natural landscape further and further we desire to recreate it and connect with something real and majestic in a crowded and over stimulated environment. Nostalgic and symbolic, in my images I try to embrace sincerity and ambiguity in times that are hardened by the disintegration of real emotional and literal landscapes. My own abstracted landscapes and imaginary places echo the chaos and beauty of our condensed and fragile relationship to nature and progress. I like to use a variety of images with natural elements that can be seen to comment on the tragedy of lost spaces and yet I also want to convey the brilliance that the small spaces in between show us when the light shines through the cracks.
- Dimensions:Height: 48 in (121.92 cm)Width: 48 in (121.92 cm)
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- Date of Manufacture:21st Century
- Condition:Excellent Original Condition.
- Seller Location:Atlanta, GA
- Reference Number:Seller: 215081stDibs: U1104238389821
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