Sarah Cain Explained

Sarah Cain
Birth Place:Albany, New York, US
Nationality:American
Field:Painting
Training:San Francisco Art Institute
University of California, Berkeley

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.[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

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

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sarah Cain: Enter the Center . 2024-03-28 . . en.
  2. News: The Artist Creating a 150-Foot-Long Glass Rainbow. Newell-Hanson. Alice. February 7, 2009. The New York Times. April 19, 2019.
  3. Web site: Kazanjian . Dodie . 2021-02-22 . Sarah Cain Is Ready to Take Up Space . 2024-03-28 . Vogue . Condé Nast . en-US.
  4. Web site: CV. SARAH CAIN. en-US. 2017-03-25.
  5. Web site: Kazanjian . Dodie . 2021-02-22 . Sarah Cain Is Ready to Take Up Space . 2024-10-30 . Vogue . en-US.
  6. http://newamericanpaintings.wordpress.com/2010/11/15/qa-a-conversation-with-sarah-cain/ Garza, Evan J "Q&A: A Conversation with Sarah Cain," New American Painting, November 2010
  7. Web site: Latimer, Quinn. SEILER + MOSSERI-MARLIO GALERIE, ZURICH "Sarah Cain: Double Future.".
  8. Bancroft, Sarah, Two Schools of Cool, Orange County Museum of Art and Prestel Publishing, 2012.
  9. Web site: Committee . Busan Biennale Organizing . Contemporary Art Exhibition - It Will Go Down Like a Dark Ship Busan Biennale Organizing Committee . 2024-10-30 . www.busanbiennale.org . ko.
  10. Web site: James . Jamillah . September 12, 2024 . From Where You Stand: On Sarah Cain's Path of Totality . October 29, 2024 . The FLAG Art Foundation.
  11. Book: Meyer, Bernadette. Dear Sarah. Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh / DAP. 2015. 978-0-9906909-1-7. Raleigh. 13.
  12. Book: Sarah Cain: Enter the Center - ARTBOOKD.A.P..
  13. Web site: Sarah Cain — Music Book . 2024-10-29 . Tang Teaching Museum . en.
  14. Book: Sarah Cain: The Imaginary Architecture of Love - ARTBOOK.
  15. Web site: Sarah Cain – LAND . 2024-10-29 . nomadicdivision.org.
  16. Web site: Spotlight: Sarah Cain . 2024-10-30 . The FLAG Art Foundation . en-US.
  17. Web site: Kazanjian . Dodie . 2021-02-22 . Sarah Cain Is Ready to Take Up Space . 2024-10-29 . Vogue . en-US.
  18. Web site: Artist Projects: Sarah Cain, Avish Khebrehzadeh, and Kay Rosen. www.nga.gov.
  19. Web site: Sarah Cain: In Nature . 2024-10-29 . The Momentary . en-US.
  20. Web site: Opener 33 Sarah Cain Enter The Center. Tang Teaching Museum.
  21. Web site: Sarah Cain: In Nature. The Momentary.
  22. Web site: Sarah Cain Now Im Going To Tell You Everything . 2024-10-29 . Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles . en.
  23. Web site: Sarah Cain: Mountain Song. Aspen Art Museum.
  24. Web site: Sarah Cain: The Imaginary Architecture of Love « CAM Raleigh . 2016-08-08 . 2016-09-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160918125243/http://camraleigh.org/2015/01/sarah-cain-the-imaginary-architecture-of-love/ . dead .
  25. Web site: 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. February 20, 2015. Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego.
  26. News: Review: 'Painting in Place' flings open conceptual abstraction doors. Knight. Christopher. June 12, 2013. The Los Angeles Times. April 19, 2019.
  27. Web site: Upcoming Exhibitions | Belvedere . 2012-02-02 . 2012-01-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120113082013/http://www.belvedere.at/en/ausstellungen/ausstellungsvorschau/gold-e11739 . dead .
  28. Web site: SFMOMA Presents 2006 Seca Art Award Exhibition Sarah Cain, Kota Ezawa, Amy Franceschini, Mitzi Pederson, Leslie Shows. SFMOMA.
  29. News: Griffin . Jonathan . September 30, 2021 . With Big, Bold Art, Sarah Cain Redefines Seriousness in Painting . October 29, 2024 . The New York Times.
  30. Web site: Kazanjian . Dodie . 2021-02-22 . Sarah Cain Is Ready to Take Up Space . 2024-10-30 . Vogue . en-US.
  31. Web site: Berardini . Andrew . 2017-05-10 . "She Comes in Colors": A Portrait of Sarah Cain, Painter . 2024-10-30 . Momus . en-US.
  32. Web site: 2013-06-13 . Review: 'Painting in Place' flings open conceptual abstraction doors . 2024-10-30 . Los Angeles Times . en-US.

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