Sarah Coleman was born in Marysville, CA, in 1976 and was raised in towns in Texas, Minnesota and California. Along the way, each landscape possessed a unique effect, mood and sky. These environments and their cultures shaped Sarah's early life experience and began her interest in the emotional and intellectual impacts of atmosphere, weather and illusion.
Now most affecting for the emerging artist, on the emotional level, is the cruel necessity of having to learn to cope with the gradual degradation of her beloved paternal grandmother's psyche, from the affects of Alzheimer's disease. Hazel Pauline Coleman was a Dust Bowl survivor, a strong central matriarch and a soul mate to Sarah. After years of clarity and purpose, over time, the dementia has taken its course. At length, Hazel has retained little more than the ability to observe the sky and comment upon the weather to her loved ones and friends. This slender thread of communication is a last, significant and vital connection between Sarah and her grandmother. They gaze at the heavens together.
In this series, Sarah continues to maintain that precious sustaining bond. These works are expressions of admiration, love, yearning, solace and gratitude.
Collectors include: Nate Berkus
in Chicago, Mike
"Think" Stern in San Francisco,
Joanna Newsom in
Nevada City and Brushfire Records in LA.
Shows
2011 San Francisco Fine Art Fair, George Billis Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2011 Feedback, Porter Sesnon Gallery, UC Santa Cruz, CA
2010 Supernatural, Fabric8 Galleries, San Francisco, CA
2009 Dark Crystals, Mahan Gallery, Columbus, OH
2009 Los Angeles Art Show, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009 The Story Lies Within, Koelsch Gallery, Houston, TX
2008 Out There, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Art Santa Fe, Garson Baker Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
2008 Small Wonders, Garson Baker Fine Art, New York, NY
2008 Los Angeles Art Show, Julie Baker Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Sweet 100, Suite 100 Gallery, Seattle, WA
2007 In ... the Weekly World News, Tangent Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2007 Stormy Weather, Julie Baker Fine Art, Nevada City, CA
Quotes
Coleman's insight [is] to recognize abstraction as a readymade phenomenon, and to construe her job as one of discovering and presenting natural beauty...sending viewers back out into the world, newly sensitized to the compositional potential of everything around them.
—Jonathon Keats, Conceptual Artist/Writer, Artweek