Sarah Dineen

Sarah Dineen was born in Brewster, Massachusetts. She has attended artist residencies at the Golden Foundation, Columbia University, and the School of Visual Arts in New York. She has exhibited at PULSE New York art fair, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Sidney Mishkin Galley, NYC, The Last Brucennial, NYC, Edward Hopper House Art Center and Museum, Nyack, NY, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, NYC, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, KY, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA, and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA. Dineen received a BFA from Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, MA and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City where she lives and works.


Certain Dark Things is an ongoing series of paintings born form Pablo Neruda’s Sonnet XVII. I have used this piece of writing as a still life of sorts, a place to begin and a place to pull imagery from its themes of secrecy, love, and darkness.
As the series has evolved the forms have simplified, the velocity of mark making has slowed, and the idea of presence and monumentality have come to the forefront. The viewer is asked to find their own presence and their own body in relation to the presence of these large-sc...

MFA School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
BFA Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA

RESIDENCIES/WORKSHOPS
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2013 SAM AND ADELE GOLDEN FOUNDATION RESIDENCY, New Berlin, New York


2012 ADVANCED PAINTING INTENSIVE, Columbia University School of the Arts, New York, NY

THINKING WORKING SPACE WITH JUDY PFAFF, Truro Center for the Arts, Truro, MA

2009 PAINTING/MIXED MEDIA SUMMER RESIDENCY, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

2015

PULSE NEW YORK CONTEMPORARY ART FAIR, SVA Galleries Booth

SMALL WORKS BARUCH, Sidney Mishkin Gallery at Baruch College, New York, NY, curated by Richard Temperio

VISUAL AIDS 17th Annual Postcards from the Edge, Luring Augustine Gallery, New York, NY

SIDESHOW NATION III: CIRCLE THE WAGONS, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2014
ACCIDENTAL CERTAINTY, Flatiron Gallery, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

MADE IN PAINT, Sam and Adele Golden Gallery, New Berlin, NY

SURFACE LIFE, Flatiron Gallery, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY


SIX OF ONE, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA, curated by Bob Bailey

THE LAST BRUCENNIAL, Bruce High Quality Foundation, New York, NY

2013
NATIONAL MFA JURIED EXHIBITION, First Street Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Phong Bui

OPEN STUDIOS, Sam and Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts, New Berlin, NY
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CERTAIN DARK THINGS, Cultural Center of Cape Cod, Mashpee, Yarmouth, MA

2012
ADVANCED PAINTING INTENSIVE SUMMER EXHIBITION, Leroy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY

ART & ARIAS OPEN STUDIO COLLABORATION WITH CAPE COD OPERA, Brewster, MA

2011
CONDITION X, Westside Gallery, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, curated by Keren Moscovitc...