Sarah E 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 since 2015. She is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has a multidisciplinary background in fashion and costume design, theater design, illustration, and makeup artistry. Recent interviews, publications and media features include New Visionary Podcast, Edward Hopper House Museum and Study Center, Create! Magazine, New Visionary Magazine, Studio Visit Magazine, Hyperallergic, Artnet, and Vanity Fair UK. Sarah has exhibited in Chicago, New York City, and throughout the U.S.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Sarah’s art revolves around the places she has encountered and is a means of detangling the randomness of memory while finding balance with a pragmatic ways of seeing. Taking an archival approach, she collects photographs, sketches, objects, and video snips from both inconsequential and novel moments, repeatedly flipping through them when exploring new project themes. Her longest running collection is exterior views of lit windows at night, something she finds every day. This Night Windows series takes its name from Edward Hopper’s 1928 painting and reflects the introspective pause one has when gazing into a lit interior from outside. These paintings are primarily created in oil, but she enjoys experimenting with media, surface and scale to push the psychological experience of what could be a mundane subject. The series represents one way she considers consistent ideas of voyeurism, loneliness, parallel worlds, the illusions of the everyday, and longing.
Website: saraheboyle.com
Instagram: @saraheboyle_painting