Artist Bio
Sarah Cromarty
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About Sarah Cromarty's painting practice involves acts of re-appropriation, defacement and recreation. The foundations of her work are landscape prints that undergo transformations via the artist’s hand such as remounting, cutting, scraping, gluing, collage, varnishing,and painting. Through such interventions the paintings go through a dramatic recreation, one that displaces traditional notions of figure/ground relationships, the authentic and the copy, as well as painting and sculpture. By playing with these formal codes, Cromarty is akin to other contemporary painters such as Peter Doig, Michael Raedecker or Dexter Dalwood as she opens up a visual place in painting that obeys the rules of an "imaginative space". Cromarty's work is painstakingly produced with a sensibility that does not shy away from the painterly virtuosity that makes for special effects of surface qualities. Her psychologically charged paintings continue to challenge and compel viewers in ways that are strange, striking, and beautiful. Lives and works in Los Angeles. Education Diploma, Idyllwild Arts Academy, Idyllwild, CA BFA, with Distinction, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA Selected Exhibitions 2008 Diamonds and Rust, September 5 - October 11, Circus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2007 Group Exhibition: One Foot High and Rising Curated by Pentti Monnonen, October 27- November 24, The Balmoral, Los Angeles, CA Two Person Exhibition with Salvatore Salamone: Reflections...an art show, June 23 - July 21, sixspace, Los Angeles, CA Project Room, Books and Records Show, January 20 – February 17, sixspace, Los Angeles Group Exhibition The Wonder of It All, March 24- April 28, Circus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2006 Group Exhibition, Chain Letter, Curated by Doug Harvey and Christian Cummings, August 21- August 31, High Energy Constructs Gallery, Chinatown, CA Group Exhibition, many, many, guys and girls, all real beauties, Curated by Julian Hoeber, May 25-June 22, Circus of Books, Hollywood, CA Group Exhibition, Debut, July 8- August 5, Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Two person exhibition with Amy Mayfield, April 28- June 3, Bucket Rider Gallery, Chicago, IL J.S.A., Curated by Pentti Monkonen, January 7, 2006- February 7, 2006, Rental Gallery, Chinatown, CA 2005 The First Annual L.A. Weekly Biennial, State of Emergence: Unsuspected Cracks in the Art World Infrastructure, Curated by Doug Harvey, October 15 - November 12, Track 16, Los Angeles, CA Group Exhibition, Several Artists Consider Books , July 9 - August 2 , Paul Kopeikin Gallery , Los Angeles CA Can't See the Forest (group exhibition), January 8 – February 12, sixspace, Los Angeles, CA Two person exhibition with Karin Weiner, April 2 – April 30, sixspace, Los Angeles, CA artLA (Art Fair), January 27-30, sixspace booth, Los Angeles, CA 2004 Group exhibition, August 13 - September 13, Compact Space, Los Angeles CA 100 Artists See Satan, July 3 – September 9, CSUF Grand Central Art Center, Fullerton, CA Featured work in Jim Shaw’s The Donner Party, January 2 - February 5, Kunsthaus Glarus Museum Awards Distinction, Art Center College of Design, 2005 "Young Talents", Artist in Residence, Cultural Service of the Consulate General of France, September 2005 Press 2008 Los Angeles Times "Painting Gets a Broader Brush", highlighting 45 painters under 45, By Christopher Knight, LA Times staff writer 2007 LA Weekly, "Hey, Ladies! The girls go wild west at Bergamot", By Doug Harvey, L.A. Weekly staff writer 2006 Artnet Magazine, "The Windy Apple", By Abraham Orden 2005 L.A. Times, AROUND THE GALLERIES, "Fresh Original Voices in L.A.", By Christopher Knight, Times Staff Writer L.A. Weekly, "The First Annual L.A. Weekly Biennial, State of Emergence: Undiscovered Cracks in the Art World Infrastructure" By Doug Harvey, L.A. weekly, Staff Writer |