ABOUT
Sarah Riley is a painter/printmaker/ceramic-sculptor based in Englewood & Port Charlotte FL, by way of post-professorial homesteading in Wellfleet MA, Highlands/Cashiers NC and Seagrove FL. She is Prof. Emeritus and former Art Department Chairperson and Head of Printmaking at Holland College of Arts and Media at Southeast Missouri State University. Her book on mixed-media printmaking was published in the USA in 2012 by A&C Black, London: Practical Mixed-Media Printmaking Techniques. She studied at Virginia Commonwealth University, the Tyler School of Art-Rome campus, the Societa Dante Alighieri in Florence, Italy, and the University of Missouri, Columbia. Sarah’s work is shown at Viridian Artists Inc., NYC.
“I use images to commemorate and to juxtapose. Life is fragmented, sometimes chaotic. Mixed-imagery, mixed-media seem in keeping. Subject matter comes from literature, history (especially women’s history), memory, drawings and photos. My use of anomalous shapes and textures reinforces the suggestion of memories and re-imaginings in the work. My process of experimentation with color, varying techniques and layering accentuates the re-tellings. My ceramic figures are listening for a world that is still learning its shape, an anatomy that is still deciding itself; hands form, feet listen, unread messages surface, idle, fade, repeat.”
CV available upon request.