Sarah Emerson

Sarah Emerson is an artist based in Atlanta, Georgia. Her paintings and installations present viewers with highly stylized versions of nature that combine geometric patterns and mythic archetypes to examine contemporary landscape.  She uses the camouflage of beautiful colors combined with a deliberate composition to explore themes that reflect on the fragility of life, the futility of earthly pleasures, and the disintegration of our natural landscape. Emerson graduated from the Atlanta College of Art in 1998 and completed her Masters Degree at Goldsmiths College, London in 2000.  She has exhibited her work in galleries throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe, including White Columns, NY, Cosmic Gallery, Paris, Mirus Gallery, San Francisco, Ca.,  the MOCA Jacksonville, Fl., and the High Museum in Atlanta, GA.  Emerson was recently awarded the 2014/2015 MOCA GA Working Artist Project Grant selected by Siri Engberg, Senior Curator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.  

2000
Master of Fine Art (Distinction) Goldsmiths College, London England
1998
Bachelor of Fine Art Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, Ga
1997
Mobility Student School of the Museum of Fine Art, Boston Ma

2013
“Black Sea of Trees” Atrium project, MOCA Jacksonville, FL
“Dog Days” Space: Eight, Jacksonville, FL
2012
“Beneath the Setting Sun” Puritan Mill, Atlanta, GA
“Underland” Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2011
“Black Garden” Moon Gallery, Berry College, Mount Berry, GA
2009
“Soft Trap” Whitespace Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2007
“The Dark Side” SLM Projects, Roswell, GA
“The End is Near” Screen Arts, St. Augustine, FL
2005
“Big Darkness” Bartlett Gallery, Provincetown MA
“The Moon is Down” Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn NY
2004
Cosmic Galerie with Vidya Gastaldon and Maria Marshall, Paris France
“Soft Mast” part of the artist series Don’t Trust Anyone Over Thirty, Real Art Ways, Hartford CT
2003
“Do the Collapse” Thomas Erben Gallery, New York NY
1997
“Bobbing for Water” Old Highland Bakery, Atlanta GA
1996
“Funnel Vision” Vantosh Gallery, Atlanta GA

Selected Group Exhibitions
2015
“Emerging Artist Exhibit”, Macon Museum of Arts & Sciences, Macon, GA

“Showing, Thinking” Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA

2014
“Little Things Mean A Lot”, Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, GA

“Driptorch”, group show curated by John Gleason, Thomasville, GA

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