Sarah Cain

Sarah Cain
Born1979 (age 44–45)
Albany, New York, US
NationalityAmerican
EducationSan Francisco Art Institute
University of California, Berkeley
Known forPainting
Websitesarahcainstudio.com

Sarah Cain (born 1979),[1] is an American contemporary artist.

Life

Cain was born in 1979 in Albany, New York, and grew up in nearby Kinderhook.[1][2] She moved to California in 1997 to study art at the San Francisco Art Institute,[3] where she received her BFA in 2001. She went on to study at the University of California, Berkeley, receiving her MFA in studio art and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2006.[4] She currently lives and works in Los Angeles.[5]

Work

Self Portrait (2020) at the National Gallery of Art in 2022

Cain uses a variety of materials, including traditional canvas, stretcher bars, and paint, as well as less common artifacts, including musical notations, leaves and branches.[6]

Quinn Latimer described Cain's work: "They court seemingly bad ideas—drawings sport feathers and doilies; installations feature eggs and hippy art teacher-like fabric swatches—and then transform them so deftly into serious painting that it can take a minute to understand what you’re looking at."[7] In 2011, Cain collaborated with George Herms at the Orange County Museum of Art, where the curator Sarah Bancroft wrote for the accompanying catalog that the two artists share "an interest in language and a frustration over its limits in describing abstract work".[8]

She has had solo exhibitions at Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the National Gallery of Art, the Momentary, amongst others. And has been included in collective exhibitions at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Imperial Belvedere Palace Museum in Vienna, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Busan Biennale.[9] In 2019, she completed her first major permanent public work at San Francisco International Airport: a 150-foot stained glass window with 270 colors, framed in soldered zinc, which was "painstakingly arranged so that no two adjoining fragments are the same shade."[2]

In writing about Cain's work for the FLAG Art Foundation, curator Jamillah James wrote, "At their very core, Cain’s abstract paintings are radical and disorienting in the best possible way. Her attack and command of both physical and pictorial space is incisive yet wildly generous, leaving the viewer with no singular place to stand or look."[10]

Poet Bernadette Mayer in her poem "Dear Sarah", described a painting by the artist as "it's like seeing a rainbow in the middle of the forest."[11]

Monographs

Selected exhibitions

Selected Press

  • Jonathan Griffin, "With Big, Bold Art, Sarah Cain Redefines Seriousness in Painting" New York Times, Sept 30, 2021[29]
  • Dodie Kazanjian, "Sarah Cain is Ready to Take Up Space", Vogue, February 22, 2021[30]
  • Andrew Berardini, "She Comes in Colors: A Portrait of Sarah Cain", Momus, May 10, 2017[31]
  • Christopher Knight, "Review: ‘Painting in Place’ flings open conceptual abstraction doors" Los Angeles Times, June 13, 2013[32]

References

  1. ^ a b "Sarah Cain: Enter the Center". Tang Teaching Museum. Retrieved 2024-03-28.
  2. ^ a b Newell-Hanson, Alice (February 7, 2009). "The Artist Creating a 150-Foot-Long Glass Rainbow". The New York Times. Retrieved April 19, 2019.
  3. ^ Kazanjian, Dodie (2021-02-22). "Sarah Cain Is Ready to Take Up Space". Vogue. Condé Nast. Retrieved 2024-03-28.
  4. ^ "CV". SARAH CAIN. Retrieved 2017-03-25.
  5. ^ Kazanjian, Dodie (2021-02-22). "Sarah Cain Is Ready to Take Up Space". Vogue. Retrieved 2024-10-30.
  6. ^ Garza, Evan J "Q&A: A Conversation with Sarah Cain," New American Painting, November 2010.
  7. ^ "Latimer, Quinn. SEILER + MOSSERI-MARLIO GALERIE, ZURICH "Sarah Cain: Double Future."" (PDF).
  8. ^ Bancroft, Sarah, Two Schools of Cool, Orange County Museum of Art and Prestel Publishing, 2012.
  9. ^ Committee, Busan Biennale Organizing. "Contemporary Art Exhibition - It Will Go Down Like a Dark Ship | Busan Biennale Organizing Committee". www.busanbiennale.org (in Korean). Retrieved 2024-10-30.
  10. ^ James, Jamillah (September 12, 2024). "From Where You Stand: On Sarah Cain's Path of Totality". The FLAG Art Foundation. Retrieved October 29, 2024.
  11. ^ Meyer, Bernadette (2015). Dear Sarah. Raleigh: Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh / DAP. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-9906909-1-7.
  12. ^ Sarah Cain: Enter the Center - ARTBOOK|D.A.P.
  13. ^ "Sarah Cain — Music Book". Tang Teaching Museum. Retrieved 2024-10-29.
  14. ^ Sarah Cain: The Imaginary Architecture of Love - ARTBOOK.
  15. ^ "Sarah Cain – LAND". nomadicdivision.org. Retrieved 2024-10-29.
  16. ^ "Spotlight: Sarah Cain". The FLAG Art Foundation. Retrieved 2024-10-30.
  17. ^ Kazanjian, Dodie (2021-02-22). "Sarah Cain Is Ready to Take Up Space". Vogue. Retrieved 2024-10-29.
  18. ^ "Artist Projects: Sarah Cain, Avish Khebrehzadeh, and Kay Rosen". www.nga.gov.
  19. ^ "Sarah Cain: In Nature". The Momentary. Retrieved 2024-10-29.
  20. ^ "Opener 33 Sarah Cain Enter The Center". Tang Teaching Museum.
  21. ^ "Sarah Cain: In Nature". The Momentary.
  22. ^ "Sarah Cain Now Im Going To Tell You Everything". Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Retrieved 2024-10-29.
  23. ^ "Sarah Cain: Mountain Song". Aspen Art Museum.
  24. ^ "Sarah Cain: The Imaginary Architecture of Love « CAM Raleigh". Archived from the original on 2016-09-18. Retrieved 2016-08-08.
  25. ^ "MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO (MCASD) PRESENTS SARAH CAIN: BLUE IN YOUR BODY RED, WHEN IT HITS THE AIR AT MCASD LA JOLLA ON MAY 9, 2015". Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. February 20, 2015.
  26. ^ Knight, Christopher (June 12, 2013). "Review: 'Painting in Place' flings open conceptual abstraction doors". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 19, 2019.
  27. ^ "Upcoming Exhibitions | Belvedere". Archived from the original on 2012-01-13. Retrieved 2012-02-02.
  28. ^ "SFMOMA Presents 2006 Seca Art Award Exhibition Sarah Cain, Kota Ezawa, Amy Franceschini, Mitzi Pederson, Leslie Shows". SFMOMA.
  29. ^ Griffin, Jonathan (September 30, 2021). "With Big, Bold Art, Sarah Cain Redefines Seriousness in Painting". The New York Times. Retrieved October 29, 2024.
  30. ^ Kazanjian, Dodie (2021-02-22). "Sarah Cain Is Ready to Take Up Space". Vogue. Retrieved 2024-10-30.
  31. ^ Berardini, Andrew (2017-05-10). ""She Comes in Colors": A Portrait of Sarah Cain, Painter". Momus. Retrieved 2024-10-30.
  32. ^ "Review: 'Painting in Place' flings open conceptual abstraction doors". Los Angeles Times. 2013-06-13. Retrieved 2024-10-30.