Sarah Crowner Ceramics

Guggenheim museum 2017 and the solo.

Sarah crowner ceramics.

Visual artist sarah crowner s work has been described as many things. With a view to establishing a more egalitarian relationship between craft and content crowner s practice exemplifies a. A participation in the 57th edition of carnegie international 2018. She received a bachelor of arts from the university of california santa cruz in 1996 and a masters of fine arts from hunter college city university of new york in 2002 she also attended école nationale supérieure des beaux arts in paris france crowner lives and works in brooklyn new york.

Sarah crowner known primarily for her vivid sewn paintings crowner draws upon art historical references infusing them with a breath of fresh air and contemporary vitality. Moving through ceramics. Sarah crowner was born in philadelphia pennsylvania in 1974. Her bold and colourful paintings and tile works incorporate forms found in architecture nature and in the history of twentieth century art and design.

Sarah crowner plastic memory 2016 exhibition view at simon lee gallery london. Invitational exhibition american academy of arts and letters new york. Sarah crowner motifs catherine bastide gallery brussels 2014. In conversation with aldy milliken december 15 2018 april 7 2019 in clay bodies.

She lives and works in brooklyn new york. Along with art history her interest in materials is also evident and pervasive. Sarah crowner 1974 was born in philadelphia. Carnegie international 57th edition 2018 carnegie museum of art pittsburgh.

The permanent installation at the wright restaurant salomon r. Hog s curve halsey mckay new york. Sarah crowner is a painter whose distinct approach emerged from her impatience with the medium. Lyrical hard edge painting primary abstraction non painterly curator gary carrion murayari coined it personal modernism she has been declared a painter a sculptor and an installation artist during her career but none of these terms feel comprehensive enough nor do they do the artist or her work justice.

Moving through ceramics kentucky museum of arts and crafts louisville. She is known for canvases in which each color and form is comprised of a different piece of cloth attached via stitches. Recent projects include individual and group exhibitions at the kmac museum louisville kentucky usa 2018. Sarah crowner s diverse practice ranges from paintings and ceramics to sculpture and theatre curtains.

Ceramics textiles and principles of interior design are presented in a continuation of crowner s dialogue between the fine and applied arts.