Sara Nesbitt

IN MY WORK

In my work, both the large scale drawings, and the mixed media “Mandalas”, I tell a history of places and scenes, influenced by the present, and tinged with the past. Figures and animals, representing our most basic feelings and metaphors, run, dance, and chase each other through the landscape with the ever present architecture of buildings, representing reason and the heartbeat of the urban world. My work tells a story, a history of a place, half imagined, half experienced, always influenced by the cities I’ve lived in, such as New York, London and Rome, where my father studied Architecture, which is the heartbeat of our urban world.

Using pen and ink, and mixed media, my work creates scenes of unsettled idylls. Ambiguous space and the interactions between figures and animals explore important themes of our time such as: the ideal of the rational versus the accepted order, ”Natural Man versus the Civilized World, democracy versus inherited status, and individualism versus the collective good. Using referential historical figures from the 17th c., a time when the Western World and our country, where discovering new ideas, philosophies and lands, the unintentional ambiguity these figures shows an apt reflection of our own time.

BIOGRAPHY

Sara Nesbitt
132 Decker Road
Ancram, NY 12502

Education: BFA Program
S.U.N.Y. New Paltz, NY 1980

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

July 2024- Kim Schmidt Fine Art- Works on Paper, at the Furnace, Falls Village, CT
January 2024- IFPDA Print Fair, Kim Schmidt Fine Art, at The Armory, New York, NY
April 2023- McNay Print Fair, Kim Schmidt Fine Art, San Antonio, TX
June 2023- “Wild Things”- Beekman Arts, Hopewell Jct., NY
September 2022-“Alter Ego”- curated by Margaret Innerhofer, Grand Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY
May 2018 - Group Show, The Re Institute, Millerton, NY
January 2018 - “Postcards from the Edge”, Gallery 524, W. 26th St., NY
August 2017 - Group Show, The Re Institute, Millerton, NY
January 2014 - “Post Cards from the Edge”, Luring Augustine Gallery, 531 W. 24th St., NY
May 2013 - “Neue Now, Contemporary Artists look at the Viener Wersttate - Neue Galerie,1048 5th Ave., NY
October 2013 - “Acteon”, The Re-Institute, Boston Corners Rd., Millerton, NY
June 2011 - “Opening Exhibition”, The Re Institute, Millerton, NY
October 2008 - “Hall Pass Invitational”, Morgan Lehman Gallery, Lakeville, CT
June 2007- “New Drawings”, curated by Alexandra Kasmin, Ancramdale, NY
January 2007 -“Post Cards From the Edge”
December 2007 - “Night of a Thousand Drawings”, Artists Space, 38 Greene St., NY
July 2005 - “Mandalas”, Alexandra Kasmin, Shekomeko, NY
October 1995 - “Invitational”, Time, Space, Light, New York, NY
July 1992 - “New Jersey Artists”, Oculus, Hoboken, N.J
June 1991- Summer Invitational, River Museum, Jersey City, NJ
May 1989 - “The Female Animal”, Delaware Museum of Art, Wilmington, DE
March 1987 - “Gallery Artists”, Adams Middleton Gallery, Dallas, TX
July 1986 - “New Talent Competition”, Texas Fine Arts Society, Austen, TX
June 1980 - “BFA Thesis Show”, S.U.N.Y. New Paltz, NY

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Mr. Raymond J. Learsy, Sharon, CT
Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Cohen, NY
Mr. & Mrs. Craig Bender, NY
Mr. & Mrs. Christopher Apgar, NY
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Bernadette, Millbrook, NY
Ms. Ann Blanchard, Beverly Hills, CA
Mr. & Mrs. Guiseppe D’Alessadro, Chicago, IL
Mr. & Mrs. Mario Grasso, NY
Mr. & Mrs. Paul Kasmin, Brooklyn, NY
Ms. Elizabeth Mayhew, Millbrook, NY
Mr. Jeremy Peele, Ancramdale, NY
Mr. Doug Rogers, NY
Dr. & Mrs. Scott Small, NY
Ms. Carolyn Sollis, NY
Mr. Elie Aliman, NY
Mr. Marco Rugero, NY