resume & statement

Sara Eichner

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One Person Exhibitions
2008  Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, NY
2006  Sight Lines, Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, NY, Fall 2008
2005  Interior/Exterior, McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, OH
2004  Façade, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2003  Brickwork, PPOW Gallery, New York, NY
2001  Sidings, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Group Exhibitions
2008  Stone Canoe Journal Exhibition, Delavan Gallery, Syracuse, NY
2007  Ferragosto, Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, NY
2006  Wedgwood Rundown, Jay Street Bar, Brooklyn, NY
2006  World Without End, McKenzie Fine Arts, New York, NY
2006  Greatest Hits, Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, NY
2006  Building Structures, Westby Gallery, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ
2006  Bright Ideas, Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, NY
2005  Rigorous Fun, Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, NY
2004  The Matzo files, New York, NY
2004  AAF Contemporary Art Fair, New York, NY
2004  Picante, Athens Institute of Contemporary Art, Athens, GA
2003  At Present, Painting & Sculpture, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2003  Superstructures, ArtSpace, New Haven, CT
2003  AAF Contemporary Art Fair, New York, NY
2003  Classical/Vernacular, with Tom Krueger. Earlville Opera House, Earlville, NY
2002  Scratch, Arena Gallery, New York, NY
2002  Locations, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2002  Best of Stock, Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2002  A Special Place, Arena Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2001  New York Foundation of Arts, Painting Fellowships, Sotheby’s, New York, NY
2001  Back and Forth; Mapping the Commute, Vacancy Gallery, Bronx, NY
2000  Artist In The Marketplace 20th Annual Exhibition, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
2000  Fresh Produce, Charas Center, New York, NY
1999  A.I.R. Gallery Invitational Exhibition, New York, NY
1999  Group Exhibition, Morlan Art Gallery, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY
1998  Saltonstall Foundation Exhibition, State of the Art Gallery, Ithaca, NY
1998  Cazenovia Counterpoint Invitational Exhibition, Cazenovia College Art Gallery, Cazenovia, NY
1998  Masters of Fine Arts Presentation, Lowe Art Gallery. Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
1998  Group Drawing Exhibition, Cooperstown Art Association, Cooperstown, NY
1997  Apple Nock Leaf, The Drawing Room, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
1997  Traveling Drawing Exhibition, 1. SUNY Oneanta 2. Oregon University 3. Syracuse University

Awards
2005  New American Paintings, #62, 2005 North East Edition, Curated by Bill Arning
2000  New York Foundation for the Arts, Artist Fellowship, New York, NY
2000  Artist in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, NY
1999  Millay Colony Residency Fellowship, Austerlitz, NY
1998  Graduate Student Painting award, Syracuse University Painting Department, Syracuse, NY
1997  Saltonstall Foundation Residency Fellowship, Ithaca, NY
1996  Graduate Student Painting award, Syracuse University Painting Department, Syracuse, NY

Publications & Reviews
• Stone Canoe, A Journal of Arts and Ideas from Upstate NY, #2, 2007
• Melissa Friedling, "Sight Lines", essay for exhibition catalogue, October, 2006
• New American Paintings, #62, 2005 North East Edition, Curated by Bill Arning
• Lisa Hatchadoorian, Building Structures, exhibition brochure essay, 2005
• Dan Tranberg, "Dualities and Paradoxes in the works of Russell Maltz and Sara Eichner", brochure for "Interior/Exterior" exhibition at the McDonough Museum of Art in Youngstown, OH. 2005
• Jennifer Alt, “Picante: Latino Influence on American Culture” Eco Latino, Volume 2, Issue 5. August, 2004
• R.B. Strauss, “Move It, Pentimenti changes locations and offers a monumental show”, Art Matters, March 2004
• R.B. Strauss, “First friday: March marches in”, Press/Preview, March 2004
• Lori Hill, “First Friday Focus” Philadelphia City Paper, Review, March 2004
• Judy Birke, “At Artspace, a lively meditation on architecture in ‘Superstructures,’” New Haven Register, May 25, 2003
• Ian Kerr, Catalogue essay for “SuperStructures” exhibition at ArtSpace, New Haven, CT. May 2003
• Brian Boucher, “Back and Forth: A Series of Exhibitions Curated by Grady Gerbracht at Vacancy Gallery,” and John Christ,
“Spaces in Between Places, Retracing the Commute.” Both essays on the Back and Forth Web site, 2001
• Lori Hill, “First Friday Focus” Philadelphia City Paper, Review, March 2001
• Holland Cotter, “Picking Out Distinctive Voices in a Pluralistic Chorus,” The New York Times, August 18, 2000
• Artist in the Marketplace, 20th Annual Exhibition Catalogue, 2000
• Antiquarian Book Monthly, June 1999
• Seven Trees, lithographs with poems by Julia Alvarez. Kat Ran Press, 1999
• Sherry Chayat, Syracuse Herald Journal, review, April 1998

Education
1998 Syracuse University, Masters of Fine Arts, painting
1992 Kenyon College, Bachelor of Arts, studio art major

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Statement

Engaging hand and eye in a labor-intensive painting process, each brush stroke records the physical process of making the painting. The record shows a battle between the effort to create exact repetitions of pattern in perspectival shifts and my inevitable failure to achieve perfect marks and neatness. Couched within a rigorous grid distorted by perspective, my mistakes and variations in stroke are set off by the structure and humanize the end result.

I apply this process to mass-produced architectural planes and building patterns that surround us in an increasingly digital environment. In an effort to claim my place within it I assert a perspective from which to view this built environment. Yet this point of view is by nature continuously changing and ephemeral. The endless and shifting planes, and the relationship between the physical, phenomenological nature of the paintings with the illusory space of their images allow me to create a visceral example of this describing a constantly shifting perception of my surroundings and the larger world.