Art Exhibit in the Library: Bending the Mind’s Eye

Paintings by Sarah Dobkin

February 29-March 30, 2024

Downstairs Gallery

Holliston artist Sarah Dobkin, originally from western New York, studied art at Brandeis (BFA) and Pratt (MFA), in the early 2000s. She has exhibited her paintings in galleries on the East Coast, and in Boston and Metro West. Sarah has traveled widely, including Europe, Islands in South America, Israel, India, and more. She has called the greater Boston area her home since 2007. Her studio is in the Holliston Mills Artist complex. Most days you can find her in the studio painting, drawing, or with my family who are a source of inspiration as well as a constant reminder to live in the moment.

Sarah says of her work:

“All that I see, hear, and touch find its way into the images you see before you. Through an unapologetic devotion to abstraction, using shape, color, and texture, a conversation begins to form. From brushstrokes to glazed surfaces elements interact on the painted surface. Drawing is also elementary, it helps to isolate concepts and join disparate ideas and bring them into being. I have always felt that the act of drawing and painting is a bridge that connects the artist to the word at large. I love building tension by carving out forms from negative space or abutting a curved line against a rigid wall. Layers of color, bold or translucent emerge and interact like characters in a play transfixed in time and space. What inspires me most is seeing color fill space as it becomes vibrant, as if light spilled into a room, forever changing the mood.”

More of Sarah’s work can be found at: www.sdartstudio.com