I'd like to welcome you to my online gallery. If you are interested in purchasing any of my work, or if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me personally. I am also currently accepting commissions.
sara@sarakathleen.com
No upcoming or current shows.
The way light streams from one source and lands and scatters across the human face is what I like to capture when I’m painting. When I first started painting, high contrast lighting was my first instinct. I wanted drama, something theatrical, something mysterious, which is still present in some of my recent work. Then I started painting with daylight, and my concept has been much clearer ever since.
Daylight interacts with human flesh differently than light from a desk lamp or fluorescent overhead lights. There is nothing like the light that streams through the kitchen window in the early afternoon. This is the light I paint in, because it presents these people in an honest way. The shadows aren’t concealing anything, and everything else is shown in the plain light of day.
The people in my paintings are not sharing their world with their viewers, but they are instead, engrossed in an unexceptional activity. This is where my oral fixation comes in. I can’t escape my fascination with the mouth; it’s where all the action is. It’s the way the jaw fluctuates as this person is chewing, the way the musculature in the human face scrunches, binds, folds, and moves with the skin as a bite is taken.
Daylight interacts with human flesh differently than light from a desk lamp or fluorescent overhead lights. There is nothing like the light that streams through the kitchen window in the early afternoon. This is the light I paint in, because it presents these people in an honest way. The shadows aren’t concealing anything, and everything else is shown in the plain light of day.
The people in my paintings are not sharing their world with their viewers, but they are instead, engrossed in an unexceptional activity. This is where my oral fixation comes in. I can’t escape my fascination with the mouth; it’s where all the action is. It’s the way the jaw fluctuates as this person is chewing, the way the musculature in the human face scrunches, binds, folds, and moves with the skin as a bite is taken.
Education:
- B.F.A. Visual Arts, Painting Concentration, SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam NY.
Graduated 2010, General Honors
Solo Art Shows:
"Unconventional Portraits" COMAND Solutions Gallery, Buffalo, NY, September 2010
A Collection of Oil Paintings and Charcoal Drawings, SPoT Coffee, Buffalo, NY, September, 2010
Selected Group Art Shows:
"STASH Show" Creative Spirit, Potsdam, NY, March 2009
"Draw Me In" Creative Spirit, Potsdam, NY, November 2009
"BFA 2010" Roland Gibson Gallery, Potsdam, NY, April 2010
Awards and Scholarships:
Kappa Pi International Honorary Art Fraternity, 2010
Saint Lawrence River Patron for the Arts Scholarship, 2009
SUNY Potsdam's Art Departmental Scholar, 2008 & 2009
- B.F.A. Visual Arts, Painting Concentration, SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam NY.
Graduated 2010, General Honors
Solo Art Shows:
"Unconventional Portraits" COMAND Solutions Gallery, Buffalo, NY, September 2010
A Collection of Oil Paintings and Charcoal Drawings, SPoT Coffee, Buffalo, NY, September, 2010
Selected Group Art Shows:
"STASH Show" Creative Spirit, Potsdam, NY, March 2009
"Draw Me In" Creative Spirit, Potsdam, NY, November 2009
"BFA 2010" Roland Gibson Gallery, Potsdam, NY, April 2010
Awards and Scholarships:
Kappa Pi International Honorary Art Fraternity, 2010
Saint Lawrence River Patron for the Arts Scholarship, 2009
SUNY Potsdam's Art Departmental Scholar, 2008 & 2009
