Sarah Cain

Cain was born in 1979 in Albany, New York, and grew up in nearby Kinderhook.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/07/t-magazine/sarah-cain-san-francisco-airport.html|title=The Artist Creating a 150-Foot-Long Glass Rainbow|last=Newell-Hanson|first=Alice|date=February 7, 2009|work=The New York Times|access-date=April 19, 2019}} She moved to California in 1997 to study art at the San Francisco Art Institute,{{Cite web |last=Kazanjian |first=Dodie |date=2021-02-22 |title=Sarah Cain Is Ready to Take Up Space |url=https://www.vogue.com/article/sarah-cain-national-gallery-of-arts-takeover |access-date=2024-03-28 |website=Vogue |publisher=Condé Nast |language=en-US}} where she received her BFA in 2001. She went on to study at the University of California, Berkeley, receiving her MFA in studio art and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2006.{{cite web|url=http://www.sarahcainstudio.com/about-ba/|title=CV|website=SARAH CAIN|language=en-US|access-date=2017-03-25}} She currently lives and works in Los Angeles.{{Cite web |last=Kazanjian |first=Dodie |date=2021-02-22 |title=Sarah Cain Is Ready to Take Up Space |url=https://www.vogue.com/article/sarah-cain-national-gallery-of-arts-takeover |access-date=2024-10-30 |website=Vogue |language=en-US}}

File:Self Portrait, 2020, Sarah Cain at NGA 2022.jpeg in 2022]]

Cain uses a variety of materials, including traditional canvas, stretcher bars, and paint, as well as less common artifacts, including musical notations, leaves and branches.[http://newamericanpaintings.wordpress.com/2010/11/15/qa-a-conversation-with-sarah-cain/ Garza, Evan J "Q&A: A Conversation with Sarah Cain," New American Painting, November 2010].

Quinn Latimer described Cain's work: "They court seemingly bad ideas—drawings sport feathers and doilies; installations feature eggs and hippy art teacher-like fabric swatches—and then transform them so deftly into serious painting that it can take a minute to understand what you’re looking at."{{cite web|url=http://www.honorfraser.com/pdf/press/2010QuinnLatimerSC.pdf|title=Latimer, Quinn. SEILER + MOSSERI-MARLIO GALERIE, ZURICH "Sarah Cain: Double Future."}} In 2011, Cain collaborated with George Herms at the Orange County Museum of Art, where the curator Sarah Bancroft wrote for the accompanying catalog that the two artists share "an interest in language and a frustration over its limits in describing abstract work".Bancroft, Sarah, Two Schools of Cool, Orange County Museum of Art and Prestel Publishing, 2012.

She has had solo exhibitions at Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the National Gallery of Art, the Momentary, amongst others. And has been included in collective exhibitions at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Imperial Belvedere Palace Museum in Vienna, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Busan Biennale.{{Cite web |last=Committee |first=Busan Biennale Organizing |title=Contemporary Art Exhibition - It Will Go Down Like a Dark Ship {{!}} Busan Biennale Organizing Committee |url=http://www.busanbiennale.org/BBOCen/index.php?pCode=MN2000164&CgCode=2006&pg=7&mode=view&idx=8638 |access-date=2024-10-30 |website=www.busanbiennale.org |language=ko}} In 2019, she completed her first major permanent public work at San Francisco International Airport: a 150-foot stained glass window with 270 colors, framed in soldered zinc, which was "painstakingly arranged so that no two adjoining fragments are the same shade."

In writing about Cain's work for the FLAG Art Foundation, curator Jamillah James wrote, "At their very core, Cain’s abstract paintings are radical and disorienting in the best possible way. Her attack and command of both physical and pictorial space is incisive yet wildly generous, leaving the viewer with no singular place to stand or look."{{Cite web |last=James |first=Jamillah |date=September 12, 2024 |title=From Where You Stand: On Sarah Cain's Path of Totality |url=https://www.flagartfoundation.org/spotlight-sarah-cain |access-date=October 29, 2024 |website=The FLAG Art Foundation}}

Poet Bernadette Mayer in her poem "Dear Sarah", described a painting by the artist as "it's like seeing a rainbow in the middle of the forest."{{Cite book|title=Dear Sarah|last=Meyer|first=Bernadette|publisher=Contemporary Art Museum, Raleigh / DAP|year=2015|isbn=978-0-9906909-1-7|location=Raleigh|page=13}}

• [https://www.artbook.com/9781636810140.html Sarah Cain: Enter the Center, Delmonico/Tang], 2022.{{Cite book |url=https://www.artbook.com/9781636810140.html |title=Sarah Cain: Enter the Center - ARTBOOK{{!}}D.A.P.}}
• [https://www.xartistsbooks.com/books/music-book Sarah Cain: Music Book, X Artist's Books/Tang, 2021] {{Cite web |title=Sarah Cain — Music Book |url=https://tang.skidmore.edu/publications/84-sarah-cain-music-book |access-date=2024-10-29 |website=Tang Teaching Museum |language=en}}
• [https://www.artbook.com/9780990690917.html Sarah Cain: The Imaginary Architecture of Love, CAM Raleigh], 2016{{Cite book |url=https://www.artbook.com/9780990690917.html |title=Sarah Cain: The Imaginary Architecture of Love - ARTBOOK}}
• [https://nomadicdivision.org/product/sarah-cain/ Sarah Cain, LAND, 2012] {{Cite web |title=Sarah Cain – LAND |url=https://nomadicdivision.org/product/sarah-cain/ |access-date=2024-10-29 |website=nomadicdivision.org}}

• Spotlight: Sarah Cain, The FLAG Art Foundation, 2024{{Cite web |title=Spotlight: Sarah Cain |url=https://www.flagartfoundation.org/spotlight-sarah-cain |access-date=2024-10-30 |website=The FLAG Art Foundation |language=en-US}}
• Sarah Cain: My Favorite Season is the Fall of the Patriarchy, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2021{{Cite web |last=Kazanjian |first=Dodie |date=2021-02-22 |title=Sarah Cain Is Ready to Take Up Space |url=https://www.vogue.com/article/sarah-cain-national-gallery-of-arts-takeover |access-date=2024-10-29 |website=Vogue |language=en-US}}{{cite web|url=https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2021/artist-projects-sarah-cain-avish-khebrehzadeh-kay-rosen.html|title=Artist Projects: Sarah Cain, Avish Khebrehzadeh, and Kay Rosen|website=www.nga.gov}}
• Sarah Cain: In Nature, The Momentary at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, curated by Lauren Haynes, 2021{{Cite web |title=Sarah Cain: In Nature |url=https://themomentary.org/calendar/sarah-cain-in-nature/ |access-date=2024-10-29 |website=The Momentary |language=en-US}}
• Sarah Cain: Opener 33 - Enter the Center, the Tang Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, 2021{{cite web|url=https://tang.skidmore.edu/exhibitions/278-opener-33-sarah-cain-enter-the-center|title=Opener 33 Sarah Cain Enter The Center|website=Tang Teaching Museum}}
• Sarah Cain: In Nature, The Momentary at the Crystal Bridges Art Museum, Bentonville, AR, 2021{{cite web|url=https://themomentary.org/calendar/sarah-cain-in-nature/|title=Sarah Cain: In Nature|website=The Momentary}}
• Sarah Cain: Now I'm Going to Tell You Everything, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, curated by Jamillah James, 2017{{Cite web |title=Sarah Cain Now Im Going To Tell You Everything |url=https://www.theicala.org/en/exhibitions/5-sarah-cain-now-im-going-to-tell-you-everything |access-date=2024-10-29 |website=Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles |language=en}}
• Sarah Cain, Aspen Art Museum at the Elk Camp on Snowmass Mountain, CO, 2017{{cite web|url=https://www.aspenartmuseum.org/exhibitions/131-sarah-cain-mountain-song|title=Sarah Cain: Mountain Song|website=Aspen Art Museum}}
• Sarah Cain: The Imaginary Architecture of Love, Contemporary Art Museum Raleigh, Raleigh, NC, 2015{{Cite web |url=http://camraleigh.org/2015/01/sarah-cain-the-imaginary-architecture-of-love/ |title=Sarah Cain: The Imaginary Architecture of Love « CAM Raleigh |access-date=2016-08-08 |archive-date=2016-09-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160918125243/http://camraleigh.org/2015/01/sarah-cain-the-imaginary-architecture-of-love/ |url-status=dead }}
• Sarah Cain: blue in your body, red when it hits the air, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 2015{{cite web|url=https://www.mcasd.org/about/press/museum-contemporary-art-san-diego-mcasd-presents-sarah-cain-blue-your-body-red-when-it|title=MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO (MCASD) PRESENTS SARAH CAIN: BLUE IN YOUR BODY RED, WHEN IT HITS THE AIR AT MCASD LA JOLLA ON MAY 9, 2015|date=February 20, 2015|website=Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego}}
• Painting in Place, Los Angeles Nomadic Division, Los Angeles, CA, 2013{{Cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-xpm-2013-jun-13-la-et-cm-knight-painting-review-20130614-story.html|title=Review: 'Painting in Place' flings open conceptual abstraction doors|last=Knight|first=Christopher|date=June 12, 2013|work=The Los Angeles Times|access-date=April 19, 2019}}
• Gold, Curated by Thomas Zaunschirm, Imperial Belvedere Museum, Vienna, 2012{{Cite web |url=http://www.belvedere.at/en/ausstellungen/ausstellungsvorschau/gold-e11739 |title=Upcoming Exhibitions | Belvedere |access-date=2012-02-02 |archive-date=2012-01-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120113082013/http://www.belvedere.at/en/ausstellungen/ausstellungsvorschau/gold-e11739 |url-status=dead }}
• SECA Art Award Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, 2007{{cite web|url=https://www.sfmoma.org/press-release/sfmoma-presents-2006-seca-art-award-exhibition-sa/|title=SFMOMA Presents 2006 Seca Art Award Exhibition Sarah Cain, Kota Ezawa, Amy Franceschini, Mitzi Pederson, Leslie Shows|website=SFMOMA}}
• Sarah Cain: I Believe We Are Believers, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA, 2006
• Sarah Cain: A River of If's, Queens Nails Annex, San Francisco, CA, 2005

• Jonathan Griffin, "With Big, Bold Art, Sarah Cain Redefines Seriousness in Painting" New York Times, Sept 30, 2021{{Cite news |last=Griffin |first=Jonathan |date=September 30, 2021 |title=With Big, Bold Art, Sarah Cain Redefines Seriousness in Painting |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/30/arts/sarah-cain-national-gallery-painter.html |access-date=October 29, 2024 |work=The New York Times}}
• Dodie Kazanjian, "Sarah Cain is Ready to Take Up Space", Vogue, February 22, 2021{{Cite web |last=Kazanjian |first=Dodie |date=2021-02-22 |title=Sarah Cain Is Ready to Take Up Space |url=https://www.vogue.com/article/sarah-cain-national-gallery-of-arts-takeover |access-date=2024-10-30 |website=Vogue |language=en-US}}
• Andrew Berardini, "She Comes in Colors: A Portrait of Sarah Cain", Momus, May 10, 2017{{Cite web |last=Berardini |first=Andrew |date=2017-05-10 |title="She Comes in Colors": A Portrait of Sarah Cain, Painter |url=https://momus.ca/comes-colors-portrait-sarah-cain-painter/ |access-date=2024-10-30 |website=Momus |language=en-US}}
• Christopher Knight, "Review: ‘Painting in Place’ flings open conceptual abstraction doors" Los Angeles Times, June 13, 2013{{Cite web |date=2013-06-13 |title=Review: 'Painting in Place' flings open conceptual abstraction doors |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-xpm-2013-jun-13-la-et-cm-knight-painting-review-20130614-story.html |access-date=2024-10-30 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}

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