"Mary Margaret Sat on a Tac, Mary Margaret Rose." Drawing

Born Philadelphia, 1983 ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Sarah Hunter is a Philadelphia based artist. She received a Certificate in Painting from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and a BFA from the University of Pennsylvania. Currently, Hunter lives and works out of her attic apartment in the company of her cats, Betsy and Pancakes. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ My drawings and paintings are inspired by the traditions of still life and landscape genres. The work is striving for material control and layered conceptual meaning. Through precise detailed renderings of specific source objects I aim to create surreal narratives which speak to the absurd within the serious and the serious with in the absurd. The worlds I paint are intended as momentary glimpses into situations in flux within a world similar to ours, but in some way skewed. Like environments found in the natural history diorama, these worlds are based in the presentation of static objects that ask the viewer to imagine the past and future of a moment forever witnessed.