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Sarah Sagarin works intuitively, approaching her canvases with curiosity. She begins construction of her compositions with automatic mark making and a deep dive into the picture plane to discover and conger imagery. Using no source material, Sarah draws on her wealth of training in figurative art and baroque painting techniques to create large scale, surreal, oil paintings which open up ambiguous narratives. The results are each unique works with subject matter ranging from relationships and familial trauma, to the natural world and the human condition.

Sarah Sagarin: https://www.sarahsagarin.org/

Tim Saternow’s paintings are what he sees on his walks around New York City, the dignified old buildings and neglected side streets, then revealed in watercolor. These are the still moments, wet and dirty, with sunlight showing the rich worn colors of this old city. Saternow’s earlier career in scenic design and film art direction is apparent in these street portraits, exposed by the glancing light as it exposes the brick and glass, pavement and puddles.  “I make the City quiet.”

Tim Saternow: https://www.timsaternow.com/

Mark Willie’s work is primarily derived from plein air landscape studies: the drawing, painting, collaging, mark-making process emerges through the experience, contemplative or spontaneous, of the environment of which it is engaged. The landscapes are generally small scale interpretive and abstracted compositional responses to their natural surroundings. Much of the work finds its way back to the studio or gets reworked into imagined landscapes, abstractions, montages (and occasionally still life) and in experiments in stone lithography and collage.

Mark Willie: https://ceruleanarts.com/pages/mark-willie?srsltid=AfmBOopbClOjiNXmNjv4Hp0dkgyVLngewlmtbH7l1IHrjbWLLsd6WuKI

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