Sara Larkin

He who has the most beautiful smile in the end wins.The primary focus of my life for the past thirty years has been painting. I have produced a large body of work encompassing a wide range of subject matter, emotions, and techniques. Only in the past several years have I become conscious that I have done so, strictly adhering to a vital principal of the Chinese ink painting tradition that I so much admired and wrote about extensively in the seventies. The guiding principal I called then and now is creation in sincerity. There is no posing or striving for effect, only the expression of my own mind and nature as I travel through life. I did not even consciously entertain the hope of arriving at any special destination - but I have.I discovered looking at my own paintings that they dont lie. They collectively revealed the truth of my own life, allowing me to arrive at what I can best express as selfhood. Up through the muck and mire the white lotus blooms.

Graduated from The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, America's oldest arts academy. The artist also holds an Ivy League degree earning her BFA from The University of Pennsylvania. She is a painter and an acknowledged scholar in Chinese Art. During her career she has owned a gallery in Hongkong specializing in contemporary Chinese art. Sara Larkin Fine Arts in Washington D.C.,Sotheby.com Associate until 2003 and agent for such artists as Lu Shou-kun, Wong Wuxie and Zhang Yi.For Spacescape Series she received a National Endowment Grant to study with Voyager Imaging Team at Jet Propulsion Laboratories in Pasadena California. She has had one-woman shows at NASA Headquarters, Langley and included in group exhibition at the National Air and Space Museum, National Museum of Women in the Arts. ,

Recent Exhibitions

NASA 50th Anniversary, 2011
Hidden Garden Gallery, Costa Rica, 2011


Selected Group Exhibitions

National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C.
University of Houston, Clear Lake, Houston, Texas
Alabama Space and Rocket Center, Huntsville, Alabama
Pan American Health Organization Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, Ohio
NASA Visitors Center, Mississippi
Dansforth Museum, Framingham, Massachusetts
Old State House, Hartford, Connecticut
Museum of Science and Natural History, St. Louis, Missouri
Kansas Cosmosphere and Discovery Center, Hutchinson, Kansas
Brevard Art Center and Museum, Melbourne, Florida
Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida
University of Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Dane G. Hansen Memorial Museum, Logan, Kansas
Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida
El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas
Expo ’86, Tokyo, Japan Mitsukoshi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Heritage-Hjemkomst Interpretive Center, Moorehead, Minnesota
Govinda Gallery, Washington, D.C.
National Arts Club, Membership Show
John F. Kennedy Space Center, Spaceport USA
Exhibition of Permanent Collection, Federal Reserve, Washington, D.C.
Massachussetts Bay Community College
Alpha Gallery, Rockvil...