Sarah Hobbs Explained

Birth Date:1970
Birth Place:Lynchburg, Virginia
Nationality:American
Alma Mater:University of Georgia
Field:photography

Sarah Hobbs (born 1970) is an artist. Hobbs is from Lynchburg, Virginia. She lives and works in Atlanta.

Education

Hobbs received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in art history from the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia in 1992 and her Master of Fine Arts degree in photography in 2000, also from the University of Georgia.[1] [2]

Career

Hobbs builds psychological, room-scale still lives which engage "apprehension, frustration, confusion, indecision—emotions that trouble the soul" and photographs them as large format color images.[3] [4] Her photos, including those in "Small Problems in Living" (1999-2004), are taken on a 4x5 camera.[5] These scenes are set up in Hobb's home or the homes of close friends; they are made to be dreamlike.[6] Across her career, her photographs and installations are about "perfectionism and its cousins, obsessiveness and overcompensation."[7] Hobbs' interest in human mania has spilled out from just photographs of staged scenes and into gallery installations, which suggest craft tipping over into mania and obsession.[8] Broadly, her work also engages the psycho-social, alienation, irrational fears, little neurosis, and common bonds over shared problems.[5]

"Sarah Hobbs's work explores and gives form to various human behaviors and compulsions. She carefully stages and photographs scenes that are meant to embody phobias, neuroses, and obsessions. Her intricate tableaus are simultaneously profound and witty, reflecting Hobbs's understanding of human psychology." - Katherine A. Bussard, Assistant Curator of Photography at The Art Institute of Chicago.[9]

In 2011, her book Small Problems in Living was published; the book compiles three photographic series.[10] In this project, "apparently familiar and harmless scenes become threatening or overwhelming," like way that a familiar scene could be "perceived by someone suffering from paranoia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, phobias or neurosis."[11] Her work is featured in The Focal Press Companion to the Constructed Image in Contemporary Photography (2019) where it is reviewed as "provoking contemplation, inviting [viewers] to see spaces differently," and her contemporaries in fabricated, place-based constructed photography are listed as Noémie Goudal and Oh Soon-Hwa.[12] Vitamin Ph (2006), another book featuring Hobbs' photographs, likens her images to Woody Allen's post-modern comic manifesto, "I can't express anger. I just grow a tumor instead."

Exhibits and awards

In 2011 Hobbs received an Artadia Award.[13] She was also awarded the Dave Brown Projects: Photography Competition 2015 Grand Prize.[14] In 2017 Hobbs was an award recipient from IDEA Capital as she began to move into video work.[15] In 2003 she was a finalist for the Forward Arts Foundation Emerging Artist Award. Hobbs was a Hudgens Prize finalist in 2017.[16]

Hobbs' work has been exhibited widely and is held in notable public collections including at the Art Institute of Chicago,[17] the Brooklyn Museum,[18] the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,[19] and the Museum of Contemporary Photography.[20]

Selected exhibitions

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sarah Hobbs . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20231206043545/https://artadia.org/artist/sarah-hobbs/ . 6 December 2023 . 11 June 2019 . Artadia.
  2. Web site: Sarah Hobbs - Biography . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240521031111/https://www.artnet.com/artists/sarah-hobbs/biography . 21 May 2024 . 24 June 2021 . Artnet.
  3. News: Dimling Cochran. Rebecca. 2005. Sarah Hobbs at the Knoxville Museum of Art. 93. Art in America. 9.
  4. News: 2016 . Sarah Hobbs exhibition: 'Interior States' . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20190406214148/https://www.scad.edu/event/2016-06-17-sarah-hobbs-exhibition-interior-states . 6 April 2019 . 21 February 2017 . . en.
  5. Book: Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives in Photography. . . 2010 . 9780714856421 . London; New York, NY . en . 795174663 . 2006.
  6. Book: Hapgood, Susan . Slightly Unbalanced . . 2008 . 978-0-916365-78-3 . New York . 56 . en . 238891401.
  7. News: Harry . Lou . 16 January 2017 . Obsession permeates artist Sarah Hobbs' distressing habitats . subscription . live . https://archive.today/20240521-025618/https://www.ibj.com/articles/62050-lous-views-obsession-permeates-artist-sarah-hobbs-distressing-habitats . 21 May 2024 . 20 May 2024 . . 25A, 27A . 37 . 48 . 0274-4929 . .
  8. News: Feaster . Felicia . 5 February 2016 . 2 photographers, 2 effects in uneven Chastain show: Sarah Hobbs, Susie Winton team for engaging project . . D5 . 1539-7459 . .
  9. Web site: Sarah Hobbs: Modern Angst . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130909094517/http://www.sumtergallery.org/Sarah_Hobbs.html . 9 September 2013 . 21 February 2017 . Sumter County Gallery of Art . en.
  10. Book: Hobbs, Sarah . Sarah Hobbs: Small Problems in Living . Charta . 2011 . 978-88-8158-831-2 . en . 783446541 . Google Books.
  11. Díaz . Maribel Castro . Winter 2019 . Visual Storytelling in Hypermodernity: The Transformative Construction of Symbolic Realities Through Staged Photography . live . . 42 . 3 . 87–89 . 0252-8169 . . https://web.archive.org/web/20240225123807/https://jcla.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/JCLA-42.3-Winter-2019-Maribel-Castro-Diaz.pdf . 25 February 2024 . 21 May 2024 . Gale Academic Onefile.
  12. Book: Wells, Liz . The Focal Press Companion to the Constructed Image in Contemporary Photography . . 2018 . 978-1-315-64780-7 . Massoni . Anne Leighton . Focal Press companion . New York, NY . en . Sensations of Place: Artists Altered Environments . 1049150046 . Shindelman . Marni . https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/the-focal-press/9781317299103/xhtml/ch03.xhtml . O'Reilly.
  13. News: Fox . Catherine . 2 November 2011 . Artadia selects Atlanta prize winners, dispenses $45,000 to seven artists . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20221130022042/https://www.artsatl.org/breaking-news-artadia-selects-atlanta-prizewinners-dispenses-45000-to-seven-artists/ . 30 November 2022 . 21 May 2024 . ArtsATL.
  14. Web site: Competition Press Release: Photography Competition 2015 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230326114230/http://www.davebownprojects.com/photo_2015_competition_press_release.html . 26 March 2023 . 21 May 2024 . Dave Bown Projects . en-US . Sarah Hobbs received $2,500 USD (Grand Prize)....
  15. News: Relyea . Laura . 10 January 2017 . News: IDEA Capital announces its 2017 Award Recipients . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20221128181855/https://www.artsatl.org/news-idea-capital-announces-2017-award-recipients/ . 28 November 2022 . 21 May 2024 . ArtsATL.
  16. News: Cox . Caroline . 8 May 2017 . A conversation with Hudgens Prize finalist Sarah Hobbs . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20221129142801/https://www.artsatl.org/conversation-hudgens-prize-finalist-sarah-hobbs/ . 29 November 2022 . 21 May 2024 . ArtsATL.
  17. Web site: Artists - Sarah Hobbs . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220628120542/https://www.artic.edu/artists/102492/sarah-hobbs . 28 June 2022 . 21 May 2024 . Art Institute of Chicago.
  18. Web site: Untitled (Eggs) - Sarah Hobbs . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230716203413/https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/168614 . 16 July 2023 . 21 May 2024 . Brooklyn Museum.
  19. Web site: Sarah Hobbs . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240521234930/https://collections.lacma.org/node/160761 . 21 May 2024 . 21 May 2024 . Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
  20. Web site: Works – Hobbs, Sarah . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240522000212/https://mocp.emuseum.com/people/5941/hobbs-sarah/objects . 22 May 2024 . 21 May 2024 . Museum of Contemporary Photography.
  21. News: Bentley . Rosalind . 28 April 2021 . Women photographers are focus of High Museum show 'Underexposed' . Chicago . . Eleven of the more than 80 artists featured in the show are from Georgia including....Sarah Hobbs... . TCA Regional News.
  22. Web site: Sarah . Hobbs . 2019 . Sarah Hobbs - curriculum vitae . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20221209025953/https://img-cache.oppcdn.com/fixed/28972/assets/XakpFJ7xOkzMaLR4.pdf . 9 December 2022 . 30 March 2021.
  23. News: Feaster . Felicia . 22 March 2019 . AJC Visual Arts Review 'Louder than Words': Every picture tells a story in Zuckerman Museum group show . . D.1. . 1539-7459 . . One of the most trenchant pieces is Atlanta artist Sarah Hobbs' apocalyptic assemblage "Keep Sake.".
  24. Web site: Kuntz . Jack . 5 June 2019 . Order & Chaos: Sarah Hobbs Creates Scenes of Neurosis and Coping . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230921130352/https://www.artpapers.org/order-chaos/ . 21 September 2023 . 21 May 2024 . . en-US.
  25. News: Harrison . Shane . 18 April 2019 . Things to do in and around Atlanta: April 19-28 . Chicago . . 'Twilight Living.' Works by Atlanta photographer Sarah Hobbs. Through May 11. Free. Hathaway Gallery... . TCA Regional News.
  26. News: Dempster . Claire E. . 11 April 2019 . Everything and Nothing You Need: Sarah Hobbs at Hathaway Gallery . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20190416023855/https://burnaway.org/everything-and-nothing-you-need-sarah-hobbs-at-hathaway-gallery/ . 16 April 2019 . Burnaway.
  27. Web site: Neumann . Sean . 23 May 2017 . An Installation Artist Overhauls Rooms to Explore Our Neuroses . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230601013822/https://www.vice.com/en/article/ywm49y/sarah-hobbs-installation-artist-mental-health . 1 June 2023 . 21 May 2024 . . en.
  28. Web site: Prugh . Brian . 14 March 2017 . Sarah Hobbs: Psychological Traces . live . https://archive.today/20240521-230839/https://theseenjournal.org/sarah-hobbs-psychological-traces/ . 21 May 2024 . 21 May 2024 . The Seen . en-US.
  29. News: Collum . Jerry . 20 October 2017 . Review: Pleasant, Hobbs and Israel’s beautiful elusiveness at Whitespace . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20221203233126/https://www.artsatl.org/review-pleasant-hobbs-israels-beautiful-elusiveness-whitespace/ . 3 December 2022 . 21 May 2024 . ArtsATL.
  30. Web site: 2016 . Exhibitions: What Is Near: Reflections on Home . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240521224627/https://high.org/exhibition/what-is-near-reflections-on-home/ . 21 May 2024 . 21 May 2024 . . en-US.
  31. Web site: 2015 . Houston Center for Photography: Somewhere in the Balance . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240521232716/https://houmuse.org/explore/events/somewhere-in-the-balance/ . 21 May 2024 . 21 May 2024 . Houston Museum District . en.
  32. News: Wertz . Orion . 23 March 2015 . Art Review: 200 Words: Sarah Hobbs at the Carson McCullers Center in Columbus . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160627011622/http://burnaway.org/review/200-words-sarah-hobbs-carson-mccullers-center-columbus/ . 27 June 2016 . Burnaway.
  33. Web site: Top 50 - Critical Mass 2011 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240521202316/https://www.photolucida.org/critical-mass/top-50/?event_id=13&legacy=true . 21 May 2024 . 21 May 2024 . Photolucida . en-US.
  34. Web site: Artist Detail - Sarah Hobbs . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240521202655/https://www.photolucida.org/artist-detail/?cmid=3580 . 21 May 2024 . 21 May 2024 . Photolucida . en-US.
  35. News: Shaw . Kurt . 20 February 2011 . Artist's photos lets spaces speak volumes . . ...15 massive photographs fill Silver Eye Center for Photography....they are the work of Sarah Hobbs of Atlanta... . McClatchy - Tribune Business News.
  36. Web site: 21 January 2011 . Sarah Hobbs @ Silver Eye . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240521201018/https://www.fstopmagazine.com/blog/2011/sarah-hobbs-silver-eye/ . 21 May 2024 . 21 May 2024 . F-Stop Magazine . en.
  37. News: Foumberg . Jason . 5 May 2008 . Slightly Unbalanced . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230928044223/https://www.frieze.com/article/slightly-unbalanced . 28 September 2023 . 21 May 2024 . . en . 115 . 0962-0672.
  38. Web site: 2008 . Exhibitions - Slightly Unbalanced . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20231210052837/https://curatorsintl.org/exhibitions/9159-slightly-unbalanced . 10 December 2023 . 21 May 2024 . . en.
  39. Smith . Matthew Ryan . Jul 2009 . Songs of the Self: Slightly Unbalanced . . 32 . 3 . 34-36 . 0838-603X . .
  40. Web site: Artists - Sarah Hobbs . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20221207132452/https://photography-now.com/artist/sarah-hobbs . 7 December 2022 . 21 May 2024 . photography-now.com.
  41. Web site: Indecisiveness, from the series Small Problems in Living - 1999 - Sarah Hobbs . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240521195629/https://www.artic.edu/artworks/184299/indecisiveness-from-the-series-small-problems-in-living . 21 May 2024 . 21 May 2024 . . Exhibition History: Art Institute of Chicago, 'On the Scene: Kota Ezawa, Sarah Hobbs, Angela Strassheim,' May 19-September 3, 2007. (Katherine A. Bussard).
  42. News: Cullum . Jerry . 18 June 2006 . Picture-perfect scenes filled with inside jokes . . L.12. . 1539-7459 . .
  43. Web site: November 2004 . Small Problems in Living . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20200526182411/https://www.yossimilo.com/exhibitions/sara-hobb-2004-11 . 26 May 2020 . Yossi Milo Gallery.

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