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Sarah G. Sharp

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Come see these little needlepoints and a panel discussion led by Leesa Hubbell this Saturday, Sept 21st at 3pm. Details below!

Top L: Diamond Echo, 2022
Bottom L: La Freccia Grimani, 2023

Both: Wool and metallic embroidery thread on needlepoint canvas
6.5 x 6.5”

Both on R: Artist and Provenance unknown. Probably made in Iran, purchased in Bangkok.

The Beautiful Forevers

Rara Avis
546 50th Avenue Long Island City, Queens, New York 11101

Regular Opening Hours 1- 6 pm through Sunday, Sept. 22nd.

Curator: Margaret Lanzetta
Artists: Steve DeFrank, Tamara Gonzales, Joyce Kozloff, Holly Miller, Margaret Lanzetta, and Sarah G. Sharp

Please join us for a talk with the artists and textile designer Leesa Hubbell at the exhibition The Beautiful Forevers, contemporary painting and historic textiles.

Leesa Hubbell has worn many hats in the NYC design industry—from interior designer at MTV to textile designer, design journalist, vintage trend forecaster and FIT educator. Leesa collaborated with Javanese artisans in Bali to design a batik fabric & clothing collection and was guest curator of Batik Fashion/American Style at the American Textile History Museum in Lowell, MA in 2005. She has twice been invited by the Indonesian Embassy to judge contemporary batik designs to foster interest in that country’s virtuosic batik textiles.

The Beautiful Forevers presents a visual and conceptual dialogue between six artists and textiles drawn from Margaret Lanzetta’s extensive collection. Each artist expresses an affinity to one or more significant aspects of textiles: Steve DeFrank: color, Tamara Gonzales: symbolism, Joyce Kozloff: politics, Margaret Lanzetta: pattern, Holly Miller: materiality, and Sarah G. Sharp: thread

The Beautiful Forevers is featured as part of New York Textile Month IX: NYTM 2024

@newyorktextilemonth @frodadottir @lanzetta_studio

#NYTM2024 #nytm #needlework #textileart by @sarahgsharp

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2 years ago

Excited to share new install photos by #caseydorobek!
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I am at @narsfoundation today, Saturday, June 19th, until 6pm and tomorrow, Sunday June 20th, 12-4pm (masks required).
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If you can't make it this weekend, the gallery will be open this week Mon-Wed from 12-5pm.
#feministpress #womenartists #nycartists #augmentedrealityart
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Burn Witch Burn, 2021, Custom cotton fabric, linen, wood, 6 modular 40 x 30” triangles
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This work combines various custom fabrics based on text and images from 1970’s feminist publications and my own landscape photos. The essay Burn Witch Burn, published in “Woman: A Journal of Liberation,” (Baltimore MD, 1972), discusses “witches” throughout history as women healers whose empirical approach to medicine threatened religious patriarchal power structures. The modular triangle components can be recombined into numerous shapes, referencing non-hierarchical, flexible systems.
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Women Looking/Revolution Repeat, Custom Wallpaper, Variable Dimensions
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Women Looking/Revolution Diamond, Custom Wallpaper, Variable Dimensions
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Women Looking is a series of custom wallpapers based on images found in radical feminist publications from the early 1970's. During my research I found images of women with automatic weapons and handguns as symbols of revolution and solidarity with global movements. Gun use was often framed as an issue of personal safety and learning to shoot a gun was part of the many feminist skill-sharing articles in these publications. The patterns in Women Looking also activate an Augmented Reality (AR) App. When these patterns are viewed through the app on your phone or tablet, layers of imagery, video, and sound that evoke the complex relationships marginalized communities have to gun ownership are revealed. taken in NARS Foundation by @sarahgsharp

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I am really happy to announce that, after a multi-year process, my site-specific artwork is now installed in the lobby of the PSQ85 Annex. A huge thanks to Kimberly LaPorte, Tania Duvergne and Molly Dilworth at Public Art for Public Schools in NYC.

From Equinox to Solstice, 2024
Ceramic pigment on porcelain tile with gold leaf

A site-specific artwork for the lobby of the new P.S. 85 Annex, in Astoria, Queens.

This floor-to-ceiling tile mural features familiar landmarks from the surrounding neighborhood including the Robert
F. Kennedy and Hell Gate bridges that famously frame Astoria and connect three New York City boroughs. The repeated triangle forms found in these structures are referenced through overlapping rays of colorful light. Images of local flowers, plants, fungi, lichen and oysters are co-mingled with silhouettes of local trees and buildings.

To create the artwork, Sharp collaged images from various sources including vintage postcards and magazines, photographs and prints, each with unique patterns, textures and finishes. The collage was printed onto porcelain tile with ceramic pigments. Gold-leaf accents appear as shining sunrays, dandelions, leaves and seed pods.

The cityscape is set within a natural landscape that transitions from autumn to spring representing the school year and acting as a symbol for time passing and the persistence of the cycle of life in every season. It also acts as a backdrop to a story of growth and transformation shown through the metamorphosis a monarch butterfly starting as a caterpillar climbing a tree, transforming into a chrysalis, and finally emerging as a butterfly. In celebrating this triumphant lifecycle, Sharp draws a metaphor with students who will thrive, grow and change over the course of their primary school years.

Collection of the NYC Department of Education, Public Art for Public Schools

Commissioned by the NYC Department of Education, NYC School Construction Authority Public Art for Public Schools program, in collaboration with NYC Department of Cultural Affairs Percent for Art program.

Photos by Kick Art
#publicartforpublicschools, #nycsca, #nyculture, #artinschools, #publicart by @sarahgsharp

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2 years ago

1-11 Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind at the Broad Museum

12-20 Treasures from the Getty Villa by @sarahgsharp

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“Meeting Point” is off to a new home. This one is from 2024. Wool on canvas, 7.75x5.75” by @sarahgsharp

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3 months ago

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We’re pleased to share an interview with noted New York City artist Sarah G. Sharp as episode three of season one, available on both Spotify and our YouTube channel. (via linktr.ee in bio.)
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Welcome to Queer Art Podcast. This interview series documents the prodigious yet visually dissonant work of LGBTQIA+ artists. The podcast, created and moderated by New York City artist Christopher Stout, shares perspectives and life stories from trailblazing elders and rising voices. The goal of this podcast is to broaden our understanding of both the aesthetics and the people defining contemporary queer art. If you’d like to support us, please share this episode with the art lovers in your life. Thank you for listening!
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Image credit: Joanna Eldredge Morrissey taken in New York City by @sarahgsharp

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Favorites from Mass MoCA (Sound on for the full effect… )

1-7 Jeffrey Gibson
8-14 Cecilia Vicuna
15-16 Jimena Sarno
17-19 Three Sisters Sculpture Sanctuary, Goshen Ma by @sarahgsharp

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Some things from the @whitneymuseum biennial:

1-3 Basil Abbas and Rouanne Abou-Rahne
4-5 Samia Halaby
6 Jonathan Gonzalez
7 Mao Ishikawa
8-9 Jasmin Sian, cut outs on fast food wrappers
10 Teresa Baker
11-12 Enzo Camacho and Amy Lien
13 Agosto Machado
14 Nani Chacon
15 Sarah M Rodriguez
16 Anna Tsouhlarakis
17-18 David L Johnson, removed codes of conduct signs…
19-20 Kainoa Gruspe by @sarahgsharp

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I used some of my recent fabric designs to make pillows as gifts for some friends… by @sarahgsharp

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4 months ago

I’ve been working on repairing this 100 yr old needlework ball that my great grandmother made for her son, (my great uncle?) around 1920. It’s taken me awhile because I thought it was made with single crochet, like a crab stitch, but I couldn’t quite replicate the stitch. I finally took it to reddit and learned that it’s a Singlade Bollar, a Swedish and Danish working class craft that became popular in the early 1800’s. It is a way to use up scrap yarn to make toy balls. My great grandmother worked for a millner to support her family, and made crochet lace and super fine needlepoint work throughout most of her life.

It’s been really fun to “collaborate” with her across so many years and see all of the different 100+ yr old yarn ends so perfectly stitched into the ball.

1-6 Singlade Bollar
7 Starting repair
8 G Grandma and G Uncle (maybe around the age he played with this ball?)
9 My grandma and her cousin in Aalborg, Denmark
10 G Grandma

#singlade #singladebollar @mindysu by @sarahgsharp

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4 months ago

I only took a few pics of this great little show of textile works and painting with @diane.lorio and @a11yce.

Thanks to the friends that made it to the opening!

Connected Geometry
Howard County Arts Council @hocoarts
Through March 28 | Gallery II by @sarahgsharp

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7 months ago

Some post-show images of @toolbookproject from “absolute alternatives” curated by @malekejg.

1) Community Quilt
2) Installation image
3) Tool Book Banner
4-7)Tool Book Project Volume III: Workbook and “Plants and People Kicking Ass” poster by @ashacanalos. by @sarahgsharp

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