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Thrilled to be showing new work at @thearmoryshow with @patrick_mikhail_gallery

Paraselene, oil and acrylic on canvas, 108.5” x 87”, 2026

#thearmoryshow #patrickmikhail #sarahtompkins #canadianart #contemporaryart by @sarahtomps

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THE ARMORY SHOW
NEW YORK
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SEPTEMBER 24 TO 27, 2026
JAVITS CENTER
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New work by Canadian artist
SARAH TOMPKINS.
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SARAH TOMPKINS
PARASELENE
OIL, ACRYLIC ON CANVAS
87 X 108.5 INCHES
2026
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Visit us in Booth 306 in the Galleries Section.
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@patrick_mikhail_gallery @sarahtomps @thearmoryshow by @sarahtomps

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Installation views of Sarah Tompkins' Bad Alchemy are live on our website!💥 Visit the show in person; it's on view until July 11th!

#contemporaryart #abstractpainting #canadianartist by @sarahtomps

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Detail of 𝘈𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘳, 2026. For many months this work was a vast site of tender and vicious negotiations of space/form, presence/absence, light/shadow, and colour most of all. There are little secrets of the heart scattered throughout the work, shimmering through layers of paint and disguised by spiderwebs of gesture.

I’ll be sitting down with the incomparable Zoë Foster this Wednesday, July 8th for a conversation about the exhibition, 𝘉𝘢𝘥 𝘈𝘭𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘺, and truly hope to see you there.
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#contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #canadianart #abstraction #sarahtompkins by @sarahtomps

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3 months ago

🚨 FINAL DAY 🚨 Today is the last day of Sarah Tompkins' Bad Alchemy! The artist will be on-site today from 2 to 4 pm, come say hi ✨

Sarah Tompkins
Unholy Subsistence I, 2025
oil and acrylic on canvas
60" x 48"

#sarahtompkins #contemporaryart #abstractpainting #canadianartist by @sarahtomps

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Detail, 𝘈𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘳, oil and acrylic on canvas, 120” x 240”, 2026
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𝘉𝘢𝘥 𝘈𝘭𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘺 is on at @olgakorpergallery until July 11th.❤️‍🔥
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#contemporarypainting #expandedpainting #canadianart #sarahtompkins #contemporaryart by @sarahtomps

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4 months ago

Thank you to everyone who joined us for last night's artist talk! Sarah Tompkins and Zoë Foster did a remarkable job, sharing their passion and insights, while unpacking Sarah's unique approach to abstract painting ❤️ Bad Alchemy continues until July 11th!

Stay tuned for the recorded version of the artist talk.

#sarahtompkins #canadianart #abstractpainting #contemporaryart #artisttalk by @sarahtomps

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3 months ago

Save the date! Join us on Wednesday July 8th, from 7 - 8 pm for an Artist Talk & Summer Cocktails🌞

Sarah Tompkins will be in conversation with curator Zoë Foster to discuss her creative process, inspiration and the making of her current exhibition, Bad Alchemy 🔥

In Conversation:
Sarah Tompkins & Zoë Foster
🔹 Date: Wednesday, July 8th
🔹 Time: 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
🔹 Location: Olga Korper Gallery
🔹 Free event, all welcome. Seating available. Summer Cocktails!
🔸 RSVP link in bio

About the Speakers:

Sarah Tompkins is an abstract painter whose work explores the tension between the known and the unknowable through a body-oriented search for meaning amid uncertain futures. She holds an MFA from the University of Ottawa, where she received the Michel Goulet Prize for Outstanding Thesis Exhibition and the Stonecroft Scholarship. Her work has been exhibited nationally in various solo and group exhibitions. Her work is held in notable collections including Google Canada, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, and the Global Affairs Visual Arts Collection. She was appointed the 2025 Invited Professor in Painting at the University of Ottawa.

Zoë Foster is a cultural consultant with extensive experience in the International Art World, having founded galleries in London (f a projects) and Los Angeles (Chung King Projects) and worked with leading organizations including Anthony d’Offay and Christie’s. She has organized exhibitions by internationally recognized artists, served on selection panels for prizes and residencies, and edited and contributed to numerous art publications. Since moving to Canada, she has co-founded Canada <-> International, an organization that promotes Canadian art and culture internationally, making institutional connections and fostering collaborative exchange.
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#contemporarypainting #contemporaryart#canadianart #abstraction #sarahtompkins by @sarahtomps

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It is the final two days to visit Bad Alchemy🔥 Tomorrow, Saturday July 11th, Sarah Tompkins will be onsite from 2 - 4 pm for the last day. Come say hi 👋 You won't want to miss this!

Across paintings both intimate and monumental, the exhibition ultimately proposes painting as a contemporary form of alchemy: not because it turns lead into gold, but because it transforms experience into something material, luminous, and strangely alive. In these works, change is neither miraculous nor complete. It is imperfect, ongoing, and inseparable from the forces that produce it.

Sarah Tompkins
Thin Fire (diptych), 2025
oil on canvas
60" x 48" (each)/ 60" x 101"

#sarahtompkins #contemporaryart #canadianpainting #abstractpainting by @sarahtomps

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3 months ago

Countdown to the opening of Sarah Tompkins’ debut exhibition, Bad Alchemy❤️‍🔥 Join us as we celebrate at the opening reception this Saturday, June 13th, from 2 - 5 pm.

In her debut solo exhibition at Olga Korper Gallery, Sarah Tompkins draws upon the mythology and material logic of alchemy as a framework for understanding painting itself. Historically, alchemy promised impossible transformations: the transmutation of base metals into gold, the discovery of universal remedies, the pursuit of hidden knowledge through fire, experimentation, and faith. For Tompkins, these pursuits become an analogy for the act of painting, where intention collides with uncertainty and where every mark enters a chain reaction whose outcome can never be fully known.

Sarah Tompkins: Bad Alchemy
🔸June 13 - July 11
🔸opening reception: Saturday June 13, 2:00 - 5:00 PM

Featured artwork: Bad Alchemy, 2026, oil and acrylic on canvas, 72” x 60” by @sarahtomps

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Happy Saturday! Sarah Tompkins' Bad Alchemy continues at OKG until July 11th ❤️‍🔥

The exhibition’s central work, Athanor, borrows its title from the self-feeding furnace used by medieval alchemists in their attempts to produce the philosopher’s stone. Designed to sustain a constant heat over long durations, the athanor embodied the belief that matter could be transformed through patience, repetition, and the secret action of fire. Installed across the gallery’s largest wall, Tompkins’ monumental painting adopts the furnace as both metaphor and method. The work functions as a site of continual becoming, accumulating decisions, revisions, erasures, and discoveries into a dense field of consequence. Like its namesake, it is sustained through duration rather than immediacy.

Sarah Tompkins, Athanor, 2026, oil and acrylic on canvas, 120" x 240" (10' x 20')

📌Programming Event
Sarah Tompkins & Zoë Foster, In Conversation
🔹 Date: Wednesday, July 8th
🔹 Time: 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
🔹 Location: Olga Korper Gallery
🔹 Free event, all welcome. Seating available. Summer Cocktails!
🔸 RSVP link in bio

#sarahtompkins #abstractpainting #contemporaryart #canadianartist by @sarahtomps

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3 months ago

TOMORROW‼️ Join us from 7 - 8 pm for Sarah Tompkins' artist talk in conversation with Zoe Foster 🔥 It's the last week of the show, so bring a friend and come enjoy the talk!

📌Programming Event
Sarah Tompkins & Zoë Foster, In Conversation
🔹 Date: Wednesday, July 8th
🔹 Time: 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
🔹 Location: Olga Korper Gallery
🔹 Free event, all welcome. Seating available. Summer Cocktails!
🔸 RSVP link in bio

Artwork details:
Sarah Tompkins
Asunder, 2024
mixed media on canvas
60" x 48"

#sarahtompkins #abstractpainting #contemporaryart #canadianartist by @sarahtomps

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