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① Artwork:
Fancy Restaurants of the Future
In this painting, brightly-colored wine glasses, flower vases and fruits fill the canvas.
Part of the artist's latest series, You Don’t Have To Go Home, But You Can’t Stay Here, she reinvigorates the classic still life with her intense palette. Banal objects like wine glasses, bananas, and cherries get hotly lit with nightclub lighting, creating the perfect metaphor for a hedonistic world hurtling toward its demise.
Sara Woster paints swirling and vibrant paintings of complicated and anxious scenes. Ultimately, she attempts to paint a world where nature, man, and technology all struggle to co-exist.
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③ Artist:
Sara Woster paints swirling and vibrant images of complicated and anxious landscapes, animals, and people that vacillate between being crowded or lonely. Pictures of blue skies teem with predators that hunt over terrain full of prey across, wild vegetation and long stretches of highway. Ultimately, she attempts to paint a world where nature, man, and technology all struggle to co-exist.
BIO:
Sara Woster (b. 1971) lives and works between Brooklyn and the Catskills. She studied painting at the University of Minnesota before getting a degree in Creative Writing at The New School.
The artist has exhibited her paintings and animations at various galleries worldwide, including Freight + Volume Gallery, New York City, NY, Hendershot Gallery, New York City, NY, The South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings, SD, and The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN. Her multi-media, collaborative performances have been staged at venues that include The Hammer Museum, UCLA, in Los Angeles, CA, and Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis, MN.
She has been granted the Jerome Foundation Emerging Artist Fellowship, a Franconia Sculpture Park residency, and a Brooklyn Arts Council SU-CASA residency.
Woster is also the author of a painting how-to and memoir titled Painting Can Save Your Life: How and Why We Paint, released by Penguin Random House/TarcherPerigee in July 2022.
