Sarah Boyle
Painter based in Chicago, IL
ABOUT
Sarah lives and works in Chicago, IL and has been a resident at the Cornelia Arts Building in Chicago from 2015 to present. Recent catalogue and print features include Where Art Works: Artist Communities and Creative Placemaking and Vanity Fair UK March, April, and May. She is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has a multidisciplinary background in fashion, costume design, illustration, and makeup artistry.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My painting and drawing practice is focused on place; a means of detangling the randomness of memory and finding balance between pragmatic ways of seeing as well as narrative, symbolism, and abstraction. I start with my own collection of photographs, sketches, and experiences, repeatedly flipping through an archive of inconsequential moments; hyper aware that each location is influenced by subtle familiar signals. While meditating on landscape, I see formal elements of painting and forage through memories to find that thing before it is forgotten. Landscape transforms from tangible subject into wordless thought. This drifting to and from the subject is the respite within the confusion and desire to recreate the memory. What is painted ultimately reveals more about the present than the past.
Website: saraheboyle.com
Instagram: @saraheboyle_painting