Sarah Hunter

Born Philadelphia, 1983
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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.
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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...

BFA, University of Pennsylvania, 2006
4 year Certificate in Painting, The Pennsylvania Academy of the fine Arts, 2005

2017
-Sarah Hunter - Recent Drawings, Green Line Cafe, Philadelphia

2016
-We Do What We Must, Rodger Lapelle Galleries,
Philadelphia, PA
-Flesh, Ellipsis, Philadelphia, PA

2015
-Subsurface, Rodger Lapelle Galleries, Philadelphia, PA
-The Woodmere Annual: 74th Juried Exhibition, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA

2014
-A Fine Arrangement: The Art of Still Life, PAFA, Philadelphia, PA
-Lilies, Figs and Folly, Cerulean Arts, Philadelphia, PA
-The Woodmere Annual: 73rd Juried Exhibition, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA

2013
-Animal Show, Pterodactyl, Philadelphia, PA
-Three Painters, Rodger Lapelle Galleries, Philadelphia, PA
-DownSized: Works From A Square Deal, Cheltenham Center for the Arts, Cheltenham, PA

2012
-Irresistible/Made in America: Gallery Artists, Rodger Lapelle Galleries, Philadelphia, PA
-Tiny, Small, Diminutive and Delectable: Gallery Artists, Rodger Lapelle Galleries, Philadelphia, PA

2011
-Sarah Hunter: Collected Curiosities, LaSalle University Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA

2010
-Philadelphia Painters, The Painting Center, New York, NY
-Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, SOMA Gallery, Cape May, NJ
-On Birds of Passage, Rodg...