Sarah Coleman was born in Marysville, CA in 1976 and grew up in various towns in Texas, Minnesota and the Sierra Foothills. As a student at the University of California in Santa Cruz, she concentrated on creating abstract expressionist paintings and large impressionistic portraits. She has designed and painted murals, taught mural painting to children and worked throughout the Bay Area as a decorative painter for Willem Racke Studio. Her recent work includes abstract wood grains and fantastical skyscapes that are intended to, among other things, promote daydreaming. She currently lives with her photographer-husband Akim Aginsky, in Grass Valley, California, where they enjoy a community full of art and skies full of imagination.
Collectors include Nate Berkus
in Chicago, Mike
"Think" Stern in San Francisco,
Joanna Newsom in
Nevada City and Brushfire Records in LA.
Shows
2009 Dark Crystals, Mahan Gallery, Columbus, OH
2009 Upstairs, Downstairs, Koelsch Gallery, Houston, TX
2008 Out There, George Billis Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Art Santa Fe, Garson Baker Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
2008 Small Wonders, Garson Baker Fine Art, New York, NY
2008 Los Angeles Art Show, Julie Baker Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Sweet 100, Suite 100 Gallery, Seattle, WA
2007 In ... the Weekly World News, Tangent Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2007 Stormy Weather, Julie Baker Fine Art, Nevada City, CA
2006 Home Grown, Julie Baker Fine Art, Nevada City, CA
2005 Get Small, Julie Baker Fine Art, Nevada City, CA
2005 Abstraction Is Dead..., Blue Tangerine Art, San Francisco, CA
2005 Interior Lifestyles, Brownstone, Las Vegas, NV
2005 May/Be, 49 Belcher Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Awards
2005 People's Choice Award, Abstraction is Dead..., SF, CA
Quotes
Coleman's insight [is] to recognize abstraction as a readymade phenomenon, and to construe her job as one of discovering and presenting natural beauty...sending viewers back out into the world, newly sensitized to the compositional potential of everything around them.
—Jonathon Keats, Conceptual Artist/Writer, Artweek
Sarah's work is very unique and will add an incredible element of the outdoors to any home.
—Tracey M Kessler, Interior Designer, T.K.I.D