S A R A P O S T
Abstract painting and drawing are a visual way of thinking with an abstract language written in marks and materials--a world of surfaces that speak to beauty and ambiguity.
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A I R B O R N E : S A R A P O S T
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H A B I T A T
S A R A P O S T + T H O M A S P O S T
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D O L P H I N G A L L E R Y / G U A L A L A A R T S
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B I O G R A P H Y
Sara Post, American abstract painter, was born in Dallas, Texas. She lived with her grandmother, a writer and poet who was almost completely deaf. Childhood was marked by silent spaces. An early visual memory focuses on the convent grounds across the street, the presence of air and space and towering trees. Her great uncle, a newspaper man, kept her supplied with stacks of newsprint pads and ballpoint pens from the Dallas Morning News. With those materials, she drew everything.
Post traveled to London after completing a degree in English and art at Southern Methodist University. She worked briefly at a pottery in Chelsea, returning to the U.S. to study ceramics in Don Bendel's innovative process centered program at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. After completing graduate studies, she and her husband, artist Thomas Post, moved to Davis, California where they opened a studio pottery, active from 1981 until 2010.
Post concentrated on ceramic wall pieces, which were recognized for their innovative color and painterly abstract imagery. Her work was exhibited and sold at local and national venues including the American Craft Museum and the Smithsonian. Public commissions followed, from large single works to whole floor installations. In 2008, she rediscovered drawing and printmaking during a residency in Italy at Il Bisonte press in Florence. Those activities led to experiments with mixed media painting combining collage, drawing, oil paint and cold wax medium.
Post currently maintains a studio, Art 26 in downtown Davis. Her paintings are known for beautiful, complex, abstract surfaces. She exhibits widely and teaches adult workshops in abstract painting and drawing at art centers and studios nationally. She is represented by Sparrow Gallery in Sacramento, California and Sager-Braudis Gallery in Columbia, Missouri.
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Solo and 2 Person Exhibits
2022
Airborne, Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA
2021
Compass, with Sandy Delehanty, Sparrow Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2020
This Is Not A Dream, The Pence Gallery, Davis, CA
2019
Other Places, Jen Tough Gallery, Benicia, CA
2018
Weather, Sparrow Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2017
Shoreline, Sparrow Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Home + The World, International House, University of California Davis, Davis, CA
Looking Around, Bresnick-Holmes Gallery, Winters, CA
2016
North Coast, Art 26, Davis, CA
2010
Ink, Paper, Wax, Latitudes, Auburn, CA
Juried / Invitational
2021
(re)Building, Atlantic Gallery, New York, NY, Jerry McLaughlin, juror
Hierarchy, Gearbox Gallery, Oakland, CA, Elena Gross, juror
New Year, New Directions, The Pence Gallery, Davis CA, invitational
Lifting The Sky, American Women Artists 2021 National Online Juried Show
Yosemite Renaissance, Yosemite Gateway Art Center/Yosemite Museum, private jury, Yosemite National Park, CA
2020
Slice: A Selection of Regional Art, Hearne Pardee, juror, Pence Gallery, Davis CA
Small Works, Sager-Braudis Gallery, Columbia, MO
2019
Content Matters, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA, Jack Fischer, juror
Yellow/Yellow, Orangeland Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Candace Loheed, juror
The March Show, Sager-Braudis Gallery, Columbia, MO, invitational
Coastal, Downtown Art Works, San Rafael, CA, Elia Haworth, juror
2017
Bluets: To Fall Under A Spell, GearBox Gallery, Oakland, CA, Jack Fischer, juror
Wax, Jen Tough Gallery, Vallejo, CA, invitationalWomen In The Abstract, Jen Tough Gallery, Vallejo, CA, invitational
2016
Fall National Exhibit, Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA, Susan Snyder, juror
Slice: A Selection of Regional Art, Pence Gallery, Davis CA, DeWitt Cheng, juror
2015
Material Worlds: Sixteen Artists + Their Materials, Davis Arts Center Tsao Gallery, Davis, CA, invitational
California Fine Arts, California State Fair, Sacramento, CA merit award for 2D work, Selected Five Best of Show
2014
Winter’s Tales: 23 Artists Interpret The Season, The Artery Gallery, Davis, CASlice: A Survey of Regional Art, Pence Gallery, Davis, CA, Carrie Lederer, juror
2013
California Clay Competition, Tony Natsoulas, juror, The Artery, Davis, CA juror’s award
Good Company: Great Clay and Glass in California 1932-2012, Kathleen Hanna, juror, Petaluma Art Center, Petaluma, CA
2010
Lessons From Things, Davis Art Center Tsao Gallery, Davis, CA
20/20, 20th Street Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2009
Thinking In Layers, Davis Art Center Tsao Gallery, Davis, CA
ACGA at PARC, Ceramics at Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, CA
Commissions/Public Collections
University Retirement Center, Davis, CA,
Davis Transmedia Sculpture Walk, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CAPhoenix Children’s Hospital, Phoenix, AZ
Riverside Medical Center, Riverside, CA
Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, TX
Alta Bates, Berkeley, CA
Carol Read Breast Care Center, Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, Berkeley, CA
Kaiser Permanente, Washington D.C., San Diego, CA, Walnut Creek, CA, Irvine, CA
Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston TX
Mercy Hospital, Ypsalanti, MI
Northwestern Mutual Insurance, Franklin, WI
Eisenhower Medical Center, Renker Pavillion, Rancho Mirage, CA
Gilette Children’s Hospital, Minneapolis, MN
Prentice Women’s Hospial, Chicago, IL
Marriot Hotel, Laguna Cliffs, CA
Memorial Hemann Katy Hospital, Katy TX
Residencies
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA, upcoming, September, 2021
Westerbeke Ranch, Sonoma CA, August1-31, 2020
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA, July 24-31, 2018
Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA, January 15-March 1, 2018
Publications / Projects / Workshops
Publications
Jung Journal, Creativity Issue, Sara Post, Summer, 2019
Cold Wax Medium: Techniques, Concepts, Conversation, Rebecca Crowell, Jerry McLaughlin, Squeegee Press, 2017
Making and Installing Handmade Tile, Lark Books, 2005
The Artful Home, Guild Publications, 2005, 2006, 2007
Crafts Of Northern California, Alcove Books, 2003
The Best Of Pottery, Angela Fina, Writers Digest Book, 1996
Projects
Curatorial: Tsao Gallery, Davis Arts Center, Davis, CA 2002-2014
Textile Collection: Close to Home, 24 designs, P-B Fabrics 2012
Juror
Sierra Wax Artists At The Crocker, 2020, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Flux: Wax In All Forms (national exhibit), 2020, Benicia Arts, Benicia, CA
Workshop Leader
Pacific Northwest School of the Arts, Whidbey Island, WA, 2019, oil mixed media
Shake Rag Alley, Mineral Point, WI, Collage, Oil Mixed Media, 2018, 2019
Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA, Collage, Oil Mixed Media,February and August, 2012-present
Myrtle Press at Verge Center for the Arts, Sacramento, CA, 2016, 2019 watercolor monotype
Art 26, Davis CA 2015-present
Davis Arts Center, Davis, CA 2002-2017
Education
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, BA English/studio art/art education Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, MA ceramics/art education
University of California, Davis, CA, directed studies with Robert Arneson, ceramics
