About the Artist
Sara
Sill's journey as an artist is non-linear. Her resumé
includes training in architecture and practice as
a corporate lawyer in a prominent Wall Street firm, and
subsequently a career in the non-profit sector with a
classical music organization. Concurrently she has
steadily established her credentials in the fine arts.
Most of her early works were photo-collages made during her
travels and served as visual journals of her trips. Examples
are in
Italian,
Greek, and
French
Diary Galleries. These collages were created in the old
fashioned "low-tech" way, with scissors, glue and paint,
using her own images taken with a simple point-and-shoot
camera.
As her interests in photography expanded, she became
absorbed in capturing images that went beyond documenting
reality and invited viewers to use their imagination. Some
examples can be seen in the
Off the Wall Gallery in
which she transformed abstract photographs of walls into
representational paintings of people and landscapes.
Sill's interests in music and architecture and are
apparent in her works, which often have a rhythmic
structure.
Her upcoming exhibition,
Nature Studies, at the
National Arts Club in New York, focuses on patterns and
harmonies discoverable in nature. She has had three
earlier solo exhibitions at the
National Arts Club in New York, and has won fellowships for
artist residencies at the Banff Centre (Canada) the
Vermont Studio Center, Kala Art Institute (California) and
the Montana Artists' Refuge.
She studied photography, painting, drawing, collage and
surface design at
the School of Visual Arts, the Art Students League and
Fashion Institute of Technology in New
York as well as in special programs in Italy, Greece and
France. Sara is an honors graduate of Princeton University,
where she majored in architecture.
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