Sarah Boyts Yoder is a mixed media painter based in Charlottesville, VA. She received an MFA in painting from James Madison University in 2006. Boyts Yoder’s work has been featured in numerous publications and exhibitions throughout the United States including the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art. Her work has been included in Fresh Paint Magazine (#10), Studio Visit Magazine (#13) and FOA (Friend of the Artist, Issue #5). In 2014 she was awarded a professional fellowship in painting from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Sarah has twice been a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (2013, 2014). She was awarded a residency at 100W Corsicana in June of 2017 and 2018. Sarah was also a finalist for the Bethesda Painting Awards (2018).
Boyts Yoder uses cartoonish iconography, occasional text, and collage materials simultaneously, creating a complex and textured painterly surface. Situated squarely in the realm of painterly abstraction, her works demonstrate the creative process as both content and journey. Listening becomes as important as doing, viewer is invited in as interpreter, and the resulting images are playfully open-ended.
A multitude of associations and experiences springs from these images. A trove of possible meanings explores the imagination’s capabilities, questions what painting can be, dreams of the unseen, and illuminates the potential for human connection that exists in these questions.
These playful abstract works are based my painting practice that relies on repetition and improvisation within structure to unlock the grace and humour in the everyday.
Possessed with a wide and opportunistic gaze, I adopt simple forms and materials often hiding in plain sight. Combining principles of formal abstraction and an obsession with colour, I transfigure them into a lexicon of cartoonish and talismanic iconography.
‘Look At All There Is To Have’ references my belief that all surfaces, all forms, are available to us as bearers of grace and points of focus in a world that too often insists on inevitability and separateness.
Please click on images below to enlarge. All works on canvas are box framed in natural timber. Works on paper and collage are mounted, and framed under glass with white frame.
1. A SEAT AT GREEN FAUCETS – Acrylic, oil stick, ink an watercolor on canvas (2017), in natural timber box frame 162 x 130 cm $5,990.00 (SOLD)
2. BRONZE POWER – Acrylic, ink, oil stick, spray paint on canvas (2018) in natural timber box frame 125 x 95 cm $3,600.00 (SOLD)
3. PICNIC AT PRINCES PARK – Acrylic, ink on canvas (2018) in natural timber box frame 80 x 65 cm $2,400.00 (SOLD)
4. DIPT – Acrylic, oil stick and ink on canvas (2018) in natural timber box frame 80 x 65 cm $2,400.00
5. POWER LINES – Acrylic, ink, oil stick, charcoal on canvas (2018) in natural timber box frame 80 x 65 cm $2,400.00
6. STONE FACE – Acrylic and watercolor on canvas (2018) in natural timber box frame 80 x 65 cm $2,400.00 (SOLD)
7. NIGHT LOOKOUT – Acrylic on canvas (2018) in natural timber box frame 64 x 54 cm $1,900.00
8. ANOTHER HIDER – Acrylic and ink on canvas (2018 ) in natural timber box frame 28 x 22 cm $750.00 (SOLD)
9. SPRING STAG – Acrylic and ink on canvas (2018) in natural timber box frame 28 x 22 cm $750.00
10. EXCAVATING UP – Acrylic and ink on paper (2018) in white frame, on white mount, under glass. 90 x 60 cm $960.00 (SOLD)
11. CARMINE SOLUTION – Acrylic and paint stick on paper (2019) in white frame, on white mount, under glass. 75 x 60 cm $880.00
12. A QUICK LIGHT STEP IN GREEN – Acrylic on paper (2018) in white frame, on white mount, under glass. 75 x 60 cm $880.00 (SOLD)
13. AUTUMN SHIELD – Acrylic and ink on paper (2018) in white frame, on white mount, under glass. 55 x 50 cm $660.00 (SOLD)
14. GUIDE SHIELD – Acrylic on canvas collage (2018) in white frame, on white mount, under glass. 52 x 47cm $560.00
15. FLOATING GATE – Acrylic on paper (2019) in white frame, on white mount, under glass. 45 x 50 cm $495.00 (SOLD)
16. FLOATING HOLDER – Acrylic on paper (2019) in white frame, on white mount, under glass. 45 x 50 cm $495.00 (SOLD)
17. GREEN ECHO – Acrylic on paper (2019) in white frame, on white mount, under glass. 45 x 50 cm $495.00 (SOLD)
18. GREEN VESSEL – (Two Handles) Acrylic on paper (2019) in white frame, on white mount, under glass. 45 x 50 cm $495.00 (SOLD)
19. HEAVY CARRY – Acrylic on paper (2019) in white frame, on white mount, under glass. 45 x 50 cm $495.00 (SOLD)
20. RISING BEARER – Acrylic on paper (2019) in white frame, on white mount, under glass. 45 x 50 cm $495.00 (SOLD)
21. SLIGHT VESSELS – Acrylic on paper (2019) in white frame, on white mount, under glass. 45 x 50 cm $495.00
22. SINGLE HANDED – Acrylic on paper (2019) in white frame, on white mount, under glass. 45 x 50 cm $495.00
23. SINGLE PITCHER – Acrylic on paper (2019) in white frame, on white mount, under glass. 45 x 50 cm $495.00
24. VERDANT VESSEL – Acrylic on paper (2019) in white frame, on white mount, under glass. 45 x 50 cm $495.00
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LOOK AT ALL THERE IS TO HAVE | Sarah Boyts Yoder & Sophie Nolan
Curated & presented by Amber Creswell Bell
@ Saint Cloche
37 Macdonald Street, Paddington NSW
Exhibition runs: 22 May – 2 June
Opening reception: Wednesday 22 May
Gallery hours: Wed to Sun, 10 – 5
Contact: amber@ambercreswell.com/ 0414 747 761