Statement

Sarah Hinckley lives and works in New York City with a studio in the Brooklyn navy yard. Her paintings are in the corporate collections of the Federal Reserve Bank, General Electric and Pfizer, and in private collections throughout the country.

Sarah grew up on cape cod where she lived just a short walk from the marsh and water. Family gatherings on or around the beach have inspired her paintings since high school, when she would make paintings of the marsh, water and sky.

She studied at California College of Arts & Crafts in the early 70's and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston where she found the means to challenge herself as a painter, then to Columbia University where she received an MFA in painting.

"Painting is how I know what I am thinking, feeling and where I am going. How I filter all that is in the world around me. I hope the final object becomes something beautiful for the viewer to be inspired by...and yet a bit challenging. I have no set idea when I begin a painting. My interest is in pursuing the process intuitively, without predetermined structure. Oil painting gives the artist the ability to create many different depths and layers with thin washes of paint. This process can evolve over great periods of time, the colors grow and develop. Building up the paint creates a dialogue...putting down a layer of wash, mark, or a line of color and then stepping back...to look and take in what i have done...and what has happened on the surface of the painting. Responding... to a mark or a layer of wash by adding or taking away these simple steps continue an interactive process that consumes me and builds the energy with which I focus days may go by because of life's responsibilities when I walk back into the studio and see with new eyes what happened before I begin the process again as the painting evolves the process slows more time is needed to look so much time looking... and thinking...the process becomes more and more interesting...and all consuming."

Bio

Sarah Hinckley was born in Hyannis, Massachusetts in 1954.

Education

• Columbia University, New York, MFA
• School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Diploma & 5th year certificate
• Tufts University, Medford, MA and BFA
• California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, California

Solo/Two Person Exhibitions

2007

Two Graces Gallery, Taos, NM

2006

Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY Daily Practice

2004

Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY Recent Paintings

2002

Steven Harris & Associates, New York, NY 2-person exhibit with Bruce Halpin

2001

Steven Harris & Associates, New York, NY 2-person exhibit with Phil Shinnik

2000

Deborah Berke & Partners, New York, NY

1997

Deborah Berke & Partners, New York, NY

1994

210 Gallery, Santa Rosa, Florida

Group Exhibitions

2008

Cool and Austere, Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles

Emily Amy Gallery, Atlanta, GA

One Night Only, 3875-1204 Gallery, Los Angeles, Curated by Mery Lynn McCorkle and Tom Jancar

2007

Visual Aid Sixth Annual Spring Auction & Benefit, San Francisco, CA

Steven Harris & Associates, New York, NY

Oliver Art Center, Oakland, CA
California College of Art

50 Bond Street, Showroom, New York, NY

2006

ANERA, Silent Auction, Washington, DC

Affordable Art Fair, New York, NY Dolby Chadwick Gallery

2005

San Francisco Art Fair, San Francisco, CA
Dolby Chadwick Gallery

Affordable Art Fair, New York, NY
Dolby Chadwick Gallery

Art LA, Los Angles, CA
Dolby Chadwick Gallery

2004

Affordable Art Fair, New York, NY
Dolby Chadwick Gallery

Art LA, Los Angles, CA
Dolby Chadwick Gallery

San Francisco Art Fair, San Francisco, CA
Dolby Chadwick Gallery

Steven Harris & Associates, New York, NY
Summer Selections

American Embassy, San Jose, Costa Rica
Art in Embassies program

2003

Affordable Art Fair, New York, NY
Sears Peyton Gallery

Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY
Easy Breezy

Robert Green Fine Art, Mill Valley, CA Summer

Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY
Playground curator, Lisa Hatchadoorian

New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
International juror, William Zimmer, art critic

2001

Aidekman Arts Center, Tufts University , MA
Alumni

Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FL
October International juror, Peter Frank

Silvernine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT
Art of the Northeast juror, Bill Arning

Schoharie County Arts Council, Cobleskill, NY
National Small Works juror, David Beitzel

Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA
juror, Anne Philbin

2000

General Electric Corporate Headquarters, Fairfield, CT
4 women painters

1999

A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY

Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA

1998

Deborah Berke & Partners, New York, NY
4 Painters

The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA
Juror, Laura Hoptmann

1996

Deborah Berke & Partners, New York, NY

1994

Open Studio, Brooklyn, New York Six Abstract Painters

1992

Open Studio, Brooklyn, New York

1991

New York University, New York
Small Works juror, Peter Seltz

1990

Wallach Gallery, Columbia University, New York
Selected MFA

Vargoss Gallery, Hunter College, New York
New York City selected MFA

Columbia University, Prentis Hall, New York

1989

Columbia University, Low Library, New York
Summer Selections

Columbia University, Prentis Hall, New York

Grossman Gallery, SMFA, Boston, MA

1988

David Williams Gallery, Provincetown, MA

Grossman Gallery, SMFA, Boston, MA

1986

Mills Gallery, Boston, MA

Collections

• Acadian Asset Management, Boston, MA
• Alliance Capital Management Corporation, New York, NY
• Analysis Group, Boston, MA
• Barkclays Global Investors, San Francisco, CA
• Belliargo, Las Vegas, NV
• Calfox, Inc., San Francisco, CA
• Capital G, Hamitlon, Bermuda
• DLA Piper Rudnick Gray, San Francisco, CA
• Encantado Resort, New Mexico
• The Federal Reserve Bank, Boston, MA
• Gallery Koyanagi, Tokyo, Japan
• Genentech, Inc., San Francisco, CA
• General Electric Corporate Headquarters, Fairfield, CT
• Goodwin Proctor, Boston, MA
• Graciela Hotel, Burbank, CA
• Guayamas Restaurant, Rancho Merage, CA
• Hyatt Regency, Atlanta, GA
• IXIS Asset Management, Boston, MA
• KPMG Peat Marwick, San Francisco, CA
• KTR Capital Partners, New York, NY
• Mutual Holdings, Boston, MA
• New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY
• The Palazzo Resort, Las Vegas, NV
• Pzifer, New York, NY
• Ritz Carlton Rancho Mirage, Rancho Mirage, CA
• Scios Inc, Fremont, CA
• Spear Street Capitol, San Francisco, CA
• VeriSign, Inc., San Francisco, CA
• Venetian Resort, Macau, China
• Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale & Dorr, Boston, MA
• Winston & Strawn, LLP, Chicago, IL
• Winston & Strawn, LLP, San Francisco, CA

Press

• Architectural Digest, "A Southern Spell" July 2007
• Taos News, "Beauty Within" by Virginia L. Clark Two Graces Gallery, June 7-13, 2007
• Southern Accents, "Watersound Showhouse" page 106, July/August, 2005
• Details, "in the works" page 92-93, August 2003
• The New York Times, Critics Choice, New and Noteworthy "Playground" Sears Peyton Gallery, Friday, June 16 & 23, 2002
• The New York Times Magazine, "Handyman's Special" September 30, 2001
• Home Magazine, "White Light" November 2001
• O The Oprah Magazine, "Comfort Zone: Take This Job...and Redecorate it" February 2001
• The South Advocate, "Beauty Returns to Contemporary Art" by Mary Bell, 1998
• Interior Design, "forum in the community" September 1997
• Interior Design, "House Double-Steven Harris" October 1996
• The Columbia Spectator, "Make it New Art" by Tamara Cochran, 1990