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Painting Collage Objects Drawing Photography Live
Wanting
Bolt Gathering
Lady In Red With Lightning
7 7/8 x 8 inches, oil paint on paper, 2019. Framed prints available in the shop: https://etsy.me/35nmBgl
Dance of the Storm Witch
Dance of the Storm Witch, Oracles & Evacuations series, oil on paper, ~8" x 12"
Taken And Made In The Dark
7.5″x9.5″, oil on aged paper, mounted on reclaimed wood. 2013
Channel
Oracles and Evacuations Series
Leaving The Forest
Leaving The Forest, Oil on paper, 8″ x 5″
Portrait of a Man with Whiskers
Oil on aged paper, 6 6/8"x5 6/8"
Abstract Hunters
Abstract Hunters, 5.5″ x 6.75″ (before frame), Oil on paper and reclaimed wood.
Abstract Hunters
Oil on paper and reclaimed wood, historic nails. 5.5″ x 6.75″ (before frame)
Hunteds
17" x 14", watercolor on Canson paper
Empath's Horizon
Oil on paper and reclaimed wood, historic nails. 15.5″ x 9.25″
When You Became Human
6" x 9"
Rook Reckoning
8" x 6.25"
Leaving The Forest
Oil on paper, 3.75″ x 3.5″
Hurricane Woman
Daily Kindwords
Daily Kindwords, 2014, oil on paper and wood, 13.25″ x 10″
Daily Kindwords
Daily Kindwords, 2014, oil on paper and wood, 13.25″ x 10″
Conversion On The Commons (detail)
When The Time Comes
Oil on paper, 7.5″ x 10″
Ill Composed Boy
Leni the Fence
Drift
Footnotes
Interior Collection Agency
Dirigibles In Training (detail)
Oil, paper, reclaimed wood, historic nails. 14.5″ x 16.75″ dir·i·gi·ble/ˈdirijəbəl/ Adjective: Capable of being steered, guided, or directed. Noun: A lighter than air craft or hovering body. *It is unclear whether the dirigibles are the boys or the bubbles they are blowing, or something else entirely.
Dark House
Sketch for Picnic with Vultures
Sketch for Picnic with Vultures, oil on board, 8" x 10" Sometimes, all the violence leaks into the sketch, and there's nothing you can do about it. Like children.
Serpent House
Serpent House, Oracles & Evacuations series, ~7" x 7.5"
Going Down
Portrait
Burning Poppies
Steer of Fate I
This series is based on two trust games. One is called The Stag Hunt, the other is called Relationships. In Rousseau’s “A Discourse on Inequality”, and Hume’s “Treatise”, The Stag Hunt is a theoretical blind trust game used to describe the social contract, and its attendant risks. In The Stag Hunt, two hunters go on a hunt together. Each must choose to hunt either a hare or a stag, but they must choose blindly. In other words, they cannot know the choice of the other. If one chooses a hare, the hare can be caught without the cooperation of the other. If one chooses to hunt a stag, the cooperation of the other is essential for success. The stag is more valuable, but the hare is easier to catch. They only have a chance at catching the stag if they both decide to hunt the stag. In this painting, the figures are stand-ins for any two individuals in absolutely any kind of relationship. Even if both know the possible set of strategies, and the attendant risks, they still may not make the decisions that will yield the highest success for them. The likelihood of catching a hare alone is much greater than the possibility of both individuals happening to trust enough to choose to hunt the stag. In fact, each hunter’s chances of catching a hare goes up if there is no competition, so if both players do not decide to trust and go for the stag, one player’s chance of catching a hare on his own goes up if the other player chose to hunt a stag instead. In their 2001 presidential address to the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association, Skyrms and Irvine said, “In the Stag Hunt, what is rational for one player to choose depends on his beliefs about what the other will choose. Both stag hunting and hare hunting are equilibria. That is just to say that it is best to hunt stag if the other player hunts stag and it is best to hunt hare if the other player hunts hare. A player who chooses to hunt stag takes a risk that the other will choose not to cooperate in the Stag Hunt. A player who chooses to hunt hare runs no such risk, since his payoff does not depend on the choice of action of the other player, but he foregoes the potential payoff of a successful stag hunt. Here, rational players are pulled in one direction by considerations of mutual benefit and in the other by considerations of personal risk.” The tension of the uncertain relationship between the man and the powerful animal (the stag, or deer/ Dear) dominates the horizontal axis of the painting, but it is the rope (a symbol of connection) that binds them together and balances the figures and the plane. If one stopped pulling, the other would topple. It is the active engagement in the struggle to hold (and possibly steer) that maintains the link. Because all of the weight in the painting is being created and held in the taut rope / chord, it indicates that the connection between the two figures is the most important place in this landscape. This painting was created as a meditation on relationships as encounters in an uncertain wilderness. The outer edges of this little painting were rubbed with iodine. Iodine is both extremely touch sensitive, and used to stabilize filaments in light bulbs. This delicate substance used to stabilize objects of illumination seemed an appropriate symbol to surround this depiction of the difference between the moment of having and the work of holding.
Our Arms The Oars Our Feet The Flood
Gnosis
The Well Diggers, The Well Diggers Triptych
Locking The Door
Becoming Alter (detail)
Wraps War
Leaving The Forest
Oil on paper, 8″ x 5″
Take Me Home
Oil on aged paper, 6"x4 1/2"
Folio Filia
Field Masking
The Plot
The Scientist in His Tower
8.5”x 5”, oil on pine. Abstracted portrait of Professor John Delano, Mentor, SUNY Albany, Presidential Honors Program.
Imaginary Traps for Real People
33" x- 41.5", oil on linen
Seemingly Harmless Objects Causing Pain 16”x 12” oil on pine Sarah Zar paintings
16” x 12” oil on pine.
Midday Volery
Becoming Alter
The Well-diggers Triptych. 4.75”x 15”, oil on wood
Man with Suspenders of Disbelief
Man with Suspenders of Disbelief, oil on pine, 4.5”x 3.5”
My Buddy
Into The Wild
Landscape painting, upstate NY.
Naptime In The Bleach Pit
The Man Who Became His Medium
Nomads On The Shore (right)
Oil on paper, 9″ x 11″
Perspectochive
Headless Beings
The Well-diggers Triptych. 7”x 14”, oil on wood
Misery's the River of the World
14.5”x7”, oil on wood.
Abjection In The Flowers
11.5″ x 15″ (at the widest axes). Oil, paper, reclaimed wood, historic nails.
Into the Well
Into the Well, Oil on canvas.
Nomads On The Shore (left)
Oil on paper, 9″ x 11″
How to Catch a Snake
Lady of the Brambles
Conversion On The Commons
From The Withing in the Woods series. Oil, paper, reclaimed wood, historic nails. 11.5″ x 14″ People often mistake the item in her hand for a golf club. It is actually a butterfly net, though she still has the stance of a golfer. The important difference is that the tool she isn’t holding is used to hit things AWAY from the self. This collection is comprised of paper, oil paint, recycled woods, and the occasional antique hand-hewn nail.
Wakes
21.5”x 11”, oil on board
The Anesthesiologist
The Anesthesiologist, oil on wood miniature.
Mister The Whisper
Rumi
Pomegranate, oil, and tea on pine
Dirigibles In Training
Oil, paper, reclaimed wood, historic nails. 14.5″ x 16.75″ dir·i·gi·ble/ˈdirijəbəl/ Adjective: Capable of being steered, guided, or directed. Noun: A lighter than air craft or hovering body. *It is unclear whether the dirigibles are the boys or the bubbles they are blowing, or something else entirely.
Light Can Be The Undertow
From The Withing in the Woods series. Oil, paper, reclaimed wood, historic nails. 10.75″ x 14.75″
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Leaving the Forest
Leaving The Forest
Oil on paper, 8″ x 6.5″
Happy Happy Happy
Las Menositas
Las Menositas, oil on reclaimed wood and paper, 5.25 x 6.15 x 1" The little sleeper in the white frame: Las Menositas. The painting was larger at first. It was Las Meninas (via Diego Velázquez), but all the subjects fell asleep...possibly dead...maybe just unconscious or Elsewhere...the doorway was empty, showing nothing but the boots, and all the bodies were on the floor. In the end, the others were cut away and only the image of her remained, like the rumors of Anastasia Romanov, whose possible survival was eventually conclusively disproved...
Before The Tide (framed)
Before The Tide
Greeter
Still Life - Chair
detail
detail
In The Druff
Oil on paper, 3.5″ x 5″
Black Stars On His Lids
Oil on paper. 2016
In The Villa of Amun
Oil on paper. 2016 Before seeing the written lyrics of ★, while taking in the video, I was convinced that David Bowie was singing, "In the villa of Amun, stands a solitary candle", and I was completely 'blown away' by the beauty of this sentence (pardon the pun, but it's necessary to connect humans to the candle, vessels of memory and memorial) . The image of the ancient god of wind having a candle in his home completely floored me. Just imagine... if he ever arrives in his own home, the candle's flame will be blown out. What a poignant and wild way to address mortality! When I searched for the written words, and discovered the actual written lyrics (Ormen, not Amun), I started to wonder if this too was one of Bowie's tricks, or if it was just chance. I love to dream-wash extra layers of symbolism onto everything, but I still wonder, in this case. Bowie was certainly clever enough. Could he have left that ambiguity as a way of creating yet another field of divergent possibilities? Riffing on the idea that sound and the sound of words are the waves, and the written words are like particles.... placing him somewhere through and between those positions, succeeding where Whitman's Sleepers failed, and re-insuring his immortality, by building his message into all of the in-betweens.... Even if I'm completely wrong, I'd like to imagine he gave us that trick as part of his final message....
Walking with Wolves
Cloud Weaver
Turret Lady
Digital collage, 2007
Burning Secrets
Burning Secrets collage. Three women in flames, telling secrets.
City In Recline
A reclining woman erupting with skyscrapers. Real estate collages. Wherein human dwellings transfer themselves onto unattainable canvases, and and dance away into the past with their sisters. Gentrification at its finest in a vintage photograph.
Ceiling Dance
Real estate collages. Wherein human dwellings transfer themselves onto unattainable canvases, and and dance away into the past with their sisters. Graceful women with skyscraper heads pose in a vintage photograph.
Togetherness
Togetherness, digital collage
Getting Warmer
Matchmaker, matchmaker, make me a match....
Your-Time-Will-Come-Sarah-Zar
Historic Manscapes
Collision Between Two Good Sized Galaxies
Collision Between Two Good Sized Galaxies, by NYC collage artist Sarah Zar
Dark Horse
Leitmotif
Lure
Mounted Kingdoms
Mounted Kingdoms, limited edition collage
Me and My Shadows - Sphinx Paper Company
Pencil on photo book page, 6.5″ x 7.13″ Collage for a song on the nearly impossible to find album, “Sphynx Paper Company”
Row Raven Row
Digital projection. This tiny motion picture was projected 2″ from floor onto a white wall over miniature couch at exactly this scale, where an invisible audience once watched, before getting up to take action and steer the course of their lives.
Vernacular Architecture
Inhabitation collage series
Converging Fields
Digital collage for limited edition prints. From "At Night The Clouds Are Forgotten", a series of 6 ‘time lapse’ collages. The scene: where quantum entanglements and converging fields go to have a nice cup of tea and brush each Other’s hair.
Paint-horse Rising
Digital collage for limited edition prints. From "At Night The Clouds Are Forgotten", a series of 6 ‘time lapse’ collages.
Fallen Starfields
Digital collage for limited edition prints. From "At Night The Clouds Are Forgotten", a series of 6 ‘time lapse’ collages.
The Liftoff
Digital collage for limited edition prints. From "At Night The Clouds Are Forgotten", a series of 6 ‘time lapse’ collages.
Equixy
Digital collage for limited edition prints. From "At Night The Clouds Are Forgotten", a series of 6 ‘time lapse’ collages.
Spotted Man
Spotty research for "Riddled With Spots", a posthumous collaboration with Charles Whymper.
Paint For Dinner
Eating paint as a family.
Den of Snake
Den of Snake
gloom
Ill fortune cookies, ltd.ed.
ill fortune cookies
Ill Fortune Cookies, ltd.ed. print
Still Life Model
Climate change collage
Plato's Patterns
Elvis Kennedy
Over Easy
Map of Influence
Patiently Awaiting Shipwreck
Research for "Riddled With Spots", a posthumous collaboration with Charles Whymper.
Oracle
A digital remix of Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys' The Pearl (British, 1829–1904)
Too much pop.
Stretch Legs
Dolphin Cloud Formation
Dolphin Cloud Formation, black and white collage
Bird Nanny, 3.5" x 5.5"
Meesha and potatoes
This Russian babushka discovers something strange in her food, when she puts it on the scale. Meesha and potatoes, food market collage.
Santa vs. Cod
Historic Manscapes 3
These Historic Manned-Scape collages exist as a limited edition series of prints.
Historic Manscapes 4
These Historic Manned-Scape collages exist as a limited edition series of prints.
Historic Manscapes 5
These Historic Manned-Scape collages exist as a limited edition series of prints.
Historic Manscapes 5 in pink
These Historic Manned-Scape collages exist as a limited edition series of prints.
Horizon Lynne
Inhabitation collage series
Compassion
Inhabitation collage series
Strip of Ice
Inhabitation collage series
History’s Comb-hither Smile
History’s Comb-Hither Smile Postcard. Collage printed on postcard, for Into The Forest Weight 350gsm Finish Gloss laminate on the image side, unlaminated on the reverse. Production Sourced from sustainable forests. Elemental Chlorine free, wood free. Printed on premium quality sustainably sourced paper (16pt / 350gsm). The image side has a glossy laminated finish, the other side is uncoated to make it easier to write on.
Lullaloo For Slee, Modern Ears Concerto
Invitation poster for an event that is impossible to attend. For the Torcher Chamber Ensemble.
Cheering Up Depressing Sculptures
Segal intervention, Montclair, NJ
The New Or Times
Front page of The New Or Times, an absurdist newspaper.
Washout
Detail from the International News Section of "The New Or Times", an absurdist newspaper.
Denturetainment, or Detournement for Dyslexics
Detail from the Arts and Culture Section of "The New Or Times", an absurdist newspaper.
~ An American marble bust of George Washington.
~ An American marble bust of George Washington. "We believe this to be a unique and unknown very beautiful likeness" - Florene Maine Antiques, Ridgefield, Conn. 06877. Research for "Riddled With Spots", a posthumous collaboration with Charles Whymper.
Women’s History Upload
Shadow Static
A cultural commemoration collage from the “Deportment of the Interior” series.
Deportment Of The Interior Historic Places National Register Plaque
A cultural commemoration collage from the “Deportment of the Interior” series.
Prisoner with Interiority Complex Sarah Zar collage
A cultural commemoration collage from the “Deportment of the Interior” series.
Plowden Weston takes a Lesson in Bubble Gum
Plowden Weston takes a Lesson in Bubble Gum. Research for "Riddled With Spots", a posthumous collaboration with Charles Whymper.
We Will Breathe Under Water
The New Novel, Riddled with Spots, via Homer
Research for "Riddled With Spots", a posthumous collaboration with Charles Whymper.
Robert Anderson, In Defense of Trees
Robert Anderson, In Defense of Trees, 1861, via Powell. Research for "Riddled With Spots", a posthumous collaboration with Charles Whymper.
~An Impromptu Affair, via -Frederick James
Research for "Riddled With Spots", a posthumous collaboration with Charles Whymper.
~Shrove Tuesday, via Walter Blackman
Research for "Riddled With Spots", a posthumous collaboration with Charles Whymper.
~An Impromptu Affair, via -Frederick James
~An Impromptu Affair, via -Frederick James. Research for "Riddled With Spots", a posthumous collaboration with Charles Whymper.
George Brinton McClellan In Defense of Trees
George Brinton McClellan In Defense of Trees. Research for "Riddled With Spots", a posthumous collaboration with Charles Whymper.
George and Belle Townsley Smith
George and Belle Townsley Smith. Research for "Riddled With Spots", a posthumous collaboration with Charles Whymper.
Hunting with Franz Wilhelm Schiertz
Research for "Riddled With Spots", a posthumous collaboration with Charles Whymper.
His Only Comfort
His Only Comfort. Research for "Riddled With Spots", a posthumous collaboration with Charles Whymper.
~An Impromptu Affair, via -Frederick James
~An Impromptu Affair, via -Frederick James. Research for "Riddled With Spots", a posthumous collaboration with Charles Whymper.
See Spots Run
See Spots Run, mixed media
Two Men Hunting An Anxious Moment
Two Men Hunting An Anxious Moment, via Arthur Fitzwilliam Tate. Research for "Riddled With Spots", a posthumous collaboration with Charles Whymper.
At Night The Clouds Are Forgotton
From the "Mounted Kingdoms" Series.
Paper Airplanes
Mixed media on photo from old book, 10″ x 13″
EAU DE JOY
From Deleuzian Objects Series. Eau de Joy, is an inverted container. Its label reads, “Outside of this vessel, all the joy in the world is contained.” Its purpose is to designate a potential field of joy external to its own spatially specific literal vessel, reminding its Perceivers that joy is therefore possible in the zone they inhabit. It is a reminder that we create our own lens and can take an active role as the curators of our own reality. Art does not need to be only a studio practice. A studio does not need to be any smaller than a universe or a life.
Under Stand
Under Stand, ceramic, paint, velvet runner, wood.
Altarpiece
5″ x 5″ x 8″. plaster, paint, wax, leaf. *This piece no longer exists. It was destroyed in an unfortunate jack-hammer incident.
Take Heart Poppet, one day at a time
Why It’s Over
*This piece no longer exists. It was destroyed in an unfortunate jack-hammer incident, in which it was ground to a fine powder, leaving nothing behind but plaster dust and remnants of the bindings.
Palette Knife for Mixed Media
How They Get the Holes In Buttons
Riddled With Spots by Sarah Zar and Charles Whymper at the MOMA
The art book, Riddled With Spots, by Sarah Zar and Charles Whymper. At the MoMA (Museum of Modern Art).
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Riddled with Spots is a short book about the Maker’s search. It traces the journey of artists (also known as The Moonlight Hunters) on the search for their creations. This pictorial poem was created as a posthumous collaboration between contemporary artist Sarah Zar and the late Charles Whymper. A visual narrative that invites interpretation, the space and pacing reflects how artists internalize the world, and how the world internalizes them.
Modified Woman
Modified "Woman” via Naples Royal Porcelain Manufactory (Ferdinand IV period, ca. 1771–ca.1807), Italian, Naples via The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
A Moonlight Hunter
Moonlight Hunter, sculpted for the book "Riddled With Spots".
Invisible Messengers
Dear John - bottomless bird cages - installation detail- Sarah Zar sculptures
miniature book necklace
The writing inside: Absit omen This is Latin for “May the omen be absent”, which means may this not be an omen. The words are a psychological talisman to ward off the ever-dreaded writer’s block. If you would like one of your own, please reach out with the contact tab on this site.
Optimist Detector Locket
WEARABLE PSYCHOLOGY Type–tokens are a series of jewelry, accessories, and baubles that can be used as tools to help us explore our understanding of the people around us. Each piece in the Wearable Psychology line has a different purpose. This amulet can be used to determine the tambor of a person's life perspective at the moment of viewing. *Tambor- a set of two interlocking hoops between which cloth is stretched before stitching.
Memory Finger
In olden days, people tied pieces of cloth around any painful part of their body to hold the “spirit of life” in that area. They believed this would cure it and keep the pain from spreading to other parts of the body. The tradition of tying a string on the finger was similarly designed to “keep” the thought there, to be remembered later when it was needed. Give this handmade sculpted finger as a gift to help preserve a memory or to create a new one. (*…could theoretically be used for blackmail, but if it is, we accept no responsibility for that...or for laughing.) TAG READS: “I will always remember …”
The Order Of The Days
An illustration for Brendan Schweda's upcoming book, "The Order Of The Days". He's investigating the ancient roots of the concept of days, and their symbolic progression through the history of our kind. All of the components in the drawing are tied to the history of Saturday, it's gods, myths, and archetypes...
Soaring Through the Science of the Sky, 29.5″ x 22.25″ inches, drawing on archival Somerset paper, 2020
Riddled with Spots, front book cover image, by S. Zar & Whymper, A. Keck Press
Riddled with Spots, front book cover image, by S. Zar & Whymper, A. Keck Press
Special edition page preview from Riddled With Spots
Carry-on
carrion / carry-on, graphite drawing
Single File - detail
Single File - detail
Feed
Feed. Mixed media drawing with charcoal, white-wash, and water. Why yes, this is a picture of business men in suits eating each other's faces with their pointy bird beaks.
Preparing to Be a King - kit label
Preparing to Be a Man - kit label
Hand Me Downs
Sphinx Rehabilitation Project- Mythitarian Relief Fund
Sphinx Rehabilitation Project- Mythitarian Relief Fund, Oracles & Evacuations series, 14" x 17"
Shaking The Bugs Out
Rough Photocopy of an early drawing
Riddled with Spots, interior image.
Riddled with Spots, interior artist edition book image, by S. Zar & Whymper, A. Keck Press
Plaids and Ladies
Collaboration with Chadwick Kesterbell. Could you copy that for me in triplicate?
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verbitas
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“When diving into a stranger hear the splash of your own veins.”
Shadows Where Nothing Should Be
Hoping For Rain
Echo Chamber
Samuel Beckett
Home Maker
Thistler
You Make a Better Door Than a Window
flame catchers
Leonora Carrington Taken Away
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dig for it
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Hold Onto That Silver Lining Like It's The Reigns Of A Charging Steed
Patience-Sarah-Zar
lonesome-soldier-veterans-day
lesson-birds
when-I-feel-alone-i-hold-a-hand-Sarah-Zar-scaled
rearing view mare
Tell-Me-About-The-Environment-scan-eagle-stump
man-training-lion-circus-zoo
Never-come-between-a-lady-and-her-book
rose zar -wolf rider
save the frame
weather it out
The Long Grain of Sleep
Paper, 35mm photographs, recycled woods, and the occasional antique hand-hewn nail. 6″ x 8″
A Stare There
Paper, 35mm photographs, recycled woods. 5.5″ x 3.25″ Circa the past. Some pictures just aren’t ready to emerge until they’ve been drowned in the trunk of a flooded car for 6 months. Finally, it feels like a good “likeness”.
Double Chair Gestalt
8.5″ x 3.5″ Text reads: “It is there. So is he. It is with him.” Paper, 35mm photographs, recycled woods, and the occasional antique hand-hewn nail.
Self Pastrait
Paper, 35mm photographs, recycled woods. 7.5″ x 7.5″ This collection is comprised of paper, 35mm photographs, recycled woods, and the occasional antique hand-hewn nail.
Self Pastrait (detail)
The photographs in this series were taken between 1999 and 2005 with an old 35mm camera Zar’s grandfather used to take pictures of orphans he and his wife rescued after WWII. After being developed, they were lost in an unnoticed flood (the pictures, not the orphans), until the well of weather-water was discovered, and they were repurposed into these pieces. The negatives were all destroyed.
There Was
There Was, 3.5″ x 3.25″ Paper, 35mm photographs, recycled woods, and the occasional antique hand-hewn nail.
Lady Of Touch
Visitations
The photographs in this series were taken between 1999 and 2005 with an old 35mm camera Zar’s grandfather used to take pictures of orphans he and his wife rescued after WWII. After being developed, they were lost in an unnoticed flood (the pictures, not the orphans), until the well of weather-water was discovered, and they were repurposed into these pieces. The negatives were all destroyed.
Visitation Portraits - Curtains - Troy NY
Visitations portraits – Double Chair Gestalt – Chairiots 1
Visitations portraits – Double Chair Gestalt – Chairiots 2
If You Let Her
1.5″ x 4″ x 6″ This collection is comprised of paper, 35mm photographs, recycled woods, and the occasional antique hand-hewn nail.
House of Leaving
18.25″ x 12.5″ Paper, 35mm photographs, recycled woods, and the occasional antique hand-hewn nail.
Solo or Duet
This collection is comprised of paper, 35mm photographs, recycled woods, and the occasional antique hand-hewn nail.
Solo or Duet (detail)
8″ x 7.5″ This collection is comprised of paper, 35mm photographs, recycled woods, and the occasional antique hand-hewn nail.
The Long Grain of Sleep (detail)
Letters to Birds
Actual size: smaller than 2"
Gathering Wands
Musical Saw (for Kotorino, NYC)
Musical saw player, Brooklyn, NY. Photo by Naomi White.
Performance with Torcher Chamber Ensemble
Becoming Lantern
Wolf Priestess
Ryder Cooley and Sarah Zar locking antlers as deers.
Performance at Spectrum Theater with Ryder Cooley
Vestuary Operatics (performance still)
Brooklyn based artist, Sarah Zar, paints, sculpts and builds installations that create postmodern narratives that mingle with external and interior realities. Her paintings, often executed in low-lit, moody colors, are filled with bizarre figures, interacting or inhabiting solitary scenes with other unnatural presences, absences, and transpositions. She is often influenced and inspired by history, literature and libraries.
Vestuary Operatics (installation view)
Vestuary Operatics (installation view)
Interactive installation. A small child wandering through the forest of branches and brambles to drop her wish into the well. It will live in the floor of the abandoned church until it crumbles. The building has since been reopeneded as a community arts center, and when the floors are replaced in the process of the restoration, the words and wishes left in the well will become a part of the building. Interactive installation/ performance for VESTUARY OPERATICS. Saint Anthony’s Cathedral, Albany, NY, 2007
Vestuary Operatics (performance still), photo by Leif Zurmuhlen
Vestuary Operatics (performance still), photo by Leif Zurmuhlen
Mural Painting performance with Ryder Cooley
(Live mural painting performances on ladders with C. Ryder Cooley), Albany Center Gallery, Albany NY, July 4 and 18th, 2008
Slay (performance with Ryder Cooley)
Portrait still from Sarah Zar's performance piece in Athens, NY, with Carolyn Ryder Cooley
Wrangling The Sky (performance still)
Musical saw playing at Lost Circus -Burning Man Fundraiser, NYC
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