Sarah Atlee
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Bio Sarah Atlee is an Austin, Texas based painter focusing on contemporary still life and abstract paintings. A self-described “paint-slinging, steak-chewing, kombucha-sipping, sushi-chomping, yoga-pantsing, sketchbook-doodling visual artist” Sarah was born in Norman, Oklahoma and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico where she remained until receiving her Bachelors of Fine Art in Painting at the University of New Mexico. In 2006, Sarah received her Masters of Fine Arts from the Rochester Institute of Technology. After graduating she returned to Oklahoma where she became immersed in the regional art scene. Mounting numerous solo exhibitions and being invited to participate in several invitational exhibitions and juried shows. This is her first solo exhibition since relocating to Texas. |
Sarah Atlee, Peel, 2015, Acrylic on Unstretched Canvas, 24"x24"
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Artist statement
Sarah Atlee's geometric abstractions in paint and paper are infused with the play between spontaneity and perfection. "I am increasingly influenced by modern quiltmaking, balancing the dual impulses of precision and improvisation - making perfect versus making do." She explores the pure pleasure of placing color next to color, building a composition one stroke (or stitch) at a time, and honoring artisans of the past and present by building on tradition. Atlee paints and sews without an alarm clock in her Austin, TX studio. Visitors are always welcome at sarahatlee.com.
Sarah Atlee's geometric abstractions in paint and paper are infused with the play between spontaneity and perfection. "I am increasingly influenced by modern quiltmaking, balancing the dual impulses of precision and improvisation - making perfect versus making do." She explores the pure pleasure of placing color next to color, building a composition one stroke (or stitch) at a time, and honoring artisans of the past and present by building on tradition. Atlee paints and sews without an alarm clock in her Austin, TX studio. Visitors are always welcome at sarahatlee.com.
Curriculum Vitae
Solo Exhibitions
Wyld Flowerz STASH, Norman, Oklahoma, 2015
The Jennifer Rooms aka gallery, Oklahoma City, 2014
Delish! Paintings of Food and Drink Broadway Wine Merchants, Oklahoma City, 2013
Figure & Ground aka gallery, Oklahoma City, 2011
Heavens to Betsy aka gallery, Oklahoma City, 2010
Pluparfait Goodwin Law Firm, Oklahoma City, 2009
Back to Normal: Normal, OK Revisited Oklahoma Heritage Association’s Gaylord-Pickens Museum, Oklahoma City, 2009
Idiolect: Personal Visual Vocabulary aka gallery, Oklahoma City, 2008
Innovandi (adoratonis parati nupri ut eos adametis) aka gallery, Oklahoma City, 2007
Surprise! Riney Fine Arts Center, Friends University, Wichita, Kansas, 2007
Pictures Tell Stories Midwest City Library, Oklahoma City, 2006
Sweet II MFA Thesis Exhibition, Bevier Gallery, Rochester, New York, 2005
Wallace Memorial Library Purchase Prize
Game Room A\V Space, Rochester, New York, 2005
Sweet Deano’s Vino, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2003
Since Then Artist’s Row Gallery, Bloomington, Indiana, 2002
Actual Size BFA Honors Thesis Exhibition, University of New Mexico, 2001
_____ day of my life ASA Gallery, University of New Mexico, 2000
2 & 3 Person Exhibitions
For Real With James Isaac Zamora, Ro2 Gallery, Dallas, Texas, 2015
You’re Pretty With Holly Wilson and Micheal Jones, Leslie Powell Foundation Gallery, Lawton, Oklahoma, 2011
Gruff & the P.I.P. List With Cassie Stover, 611 Creative, Oklahoma City, 2008
Triple Deco With Paul Mays and Natalie Moore, Individual Artists of Oklahoma Project Room, Oklahoma City, 2007
I knew I should’ve taken that left turn at Albuquerque III With Paho Mann and Leigh Merrill, Studio C, Phoenix, 2006
(Part II: 2005, Part I: 2002)
Selected Group Exhibitions
On Edge Cerulean Gallery, Amarillo, Texas, 2016
CHAOS Small works invitational Ro2 Art, Dallas, Texas, 2016 (2015)
A Hiding Place Curated by Ben Meyers and Jane Vincent Taylor, [Artspace] at Untitled, Oklahoma City, 2016
bARTer Current Studio, Oklahoma City, 2016
Yeah, It’s Salon Style Ro2 Art, Dallas, Texas, 2015
The Scenic Route Cerulean Gallery, Amarillo, Texas, 2015
Dallas Art Fair Ro2 Art at the Dallas Art Fair, Dallas, Texas, 2015
Women’s Works Northwest Area Arts Council, Woodstock, Illinois, 2014
Art Now Oklahoma Annual invitational, curated by Louise Siddons, City Arts Center, Oklahoma City, 2013
Horizontal Grandeur Stevens County Historical Museum, Morris, Minnesota, 2013
12x12 Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition, various venues, Oklahoma City 2013 (2012, 2011, 2010, 2009) 12x12okc.org
Art Now Oklahoma Annual invitational, curated by romy owens, City Arts Center, Oklahoma City, 2012
Straight From the Street Invitational, Istvan Gallery, Oklahoma City, 2012
Concept/OK: Art in Oklahoma Curated by Liza Statton & Alison Hearst, Hardesty Arts Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 2012
concept-ok.org
Small Works Invitational JRB Art Gallery at the Elms, Oklahoma City, 2012 (2011, 2010)
24 Works on Paper Curated by Louise Siddons, IAO Gallery, Oklahoma City, 2011
The Girlie Show Public Market, Oklahoma City, 2010
Heart and Soul of the Great Plains Group Invitational, Leslie Powell Foundation Gallery, Lawton, Oklahoma, 2010
Seeing Other People: Contemporary Portraiture Invited Artists Gallery in the Underground, Oklahoma City, 2009
Society of Illustrators 51st Annual Book & Editorial Exhibition Society of Illustrators, New York City, 2009
Core Evidence Invitational, Mainsite Contemporary Art, Norman, Oklahoma, 2009
24 Works On Paper Curated by Adrienne Day, IAO Gallery, Oklahoma City, 2009 24works.org
60 Artists : 60 Minutes
Curated by romy owens, Invited Artists Gallery in the Underground, Oklahoma City, 2009
Art365 Curated by Diane Barber, [Artspace] at Untitled, Oklahoma City, 2008
Traveling exhibition and $10,000 honorarium art365.org
Autobiovisual Riney Fine Arts Center, Friends University, Wichita, Kansas, 2008
Know Thyself: Self Portraits by Oklahoma Artists Invitational, Individual Artists of Oklahoma Gallery, Oklahoma City, 2008
Pop Surrealism Invitational, City Arts Center, Oklahoma City, 2007
Oklahoma: Centerfold 12th Oklahoma Biennial, Leslie Powell Foundation Gallery, Lawton, Oklahoma, 2006
Emergent Mainsite Gallery, Norman, Oklahoma, 2006
Women’s Invitational Sponsored by the National Women’s Hall of Fame, Genesee Community College, Batavia, New York, 2005
Juror’s Choice Award
Society of Illustrators Annual Scholarship Competition Society of Illustrators, New York City, 2005
Made in New York Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, New York, 2005
Inside [83] Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, 2003
Notable Collections
Abraham Art Foundation, New York City and Canadian, Texas
George Kaiser Family Foundation, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Wallace Memorial Library, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York
Publications & Reviews
“Artists Explore Nature in Exhibition,” by Chip Chandler for The Amarillo Globe-News, 6/5/2015
“A Hyperrealism that Questions Reality with James Zamora and Sarah Atlee at Ro2 Art”
Jenny Block for Huffington Post, 2/20/2015
“Pushing Borders, Stretching Form: The Ceramics of Birthe Flexner,” by Sarah Atlee Art Focus, Fall 2011
“Correspondence Courses: Lori Oden and Kate Rivers at Istvan Urban Art,” by Sarah Atlee Art Focus, Summer 2010
“Sarah Atlee conjures up patron saints in her exhibit ‘Heavens to Betsy’” review by Adam Kemp Oklahoma Gazette , May 2010
Braying From Burro Hill Written by Bob Rogers, illustrated by Sarah Atlee, 2010
Normal, OK Written and illustrated by Sarah Atlee (self-published), 2008
Nimrod International Literary Journal, Fall 2008
“Art 365: Sarah Atlee and Normal, OK,” Interview, Art Focus, Summer 2007
Education
Acrylic Painting workshop with Bert Seabourn, City Arts Center, Oklahoma City, 2013 and 2011
Creative Capital Professional Development Retreat, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 2012
Figure Drawing with Glen Thomas, City Arts Center, Oklahoma City, 2012
Master of Fine Arts, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, 2006
Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of New Mexico, 2001 Summa cum laude
Solo Exhibitions
Wyld Flowerz STASH, Norman, Oklahoma, 2015
The Jennifer Rooms aka gallery, Oklahoma City, 2014
Delish! Paintings of Food and Drink Broadway Wine Merchants, Oklahoma City, 2013
Figure & Ground aka gallery, Oklahoma City, 2011
Heavens to Betsy aka gallery, Oklahoma City, 2010
Pluparfait Goodwin Law Firm, Oklahoma City, 2009
Back to Normal: Normal, OK Revisited Oklahoma Heritage Association’s Gaylord-Pickens Museum, Oklahoma City, 2009
Idiolect: Personal Visual Vocabulary aka gallery, Oklahoma City, 2008
Innovandi (adoratonis parati nupri ut eos adametis) aka gallery, Oklahoma City, 2007
Surprise! Riney Fine Arts Center, Friends University, Wichita, Kansas, 2007
Pictures Tell Stories Midwest City Library, Oklahoma City, 2006
Sweet II MFA Thesis Exhibition, Bevier Gallery, Rochester, New York, 2005
Wallace Memorial Library Purchase Prize
Game Room A\V Space, Rochester, New York, 2005
Sweet Deano’s Vino, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2003
Since Then Artist’s Row Gallery, Bloomington, Indiana, 2002
Actual Size BFA Honors Thesis Exhibition, University of New Mexico, 2001
_____ day of my life ASA Gallery, University of New Mexico, 2000
2 & 3 Person Exhibitions
For Real With James Isaac Zamora, Ro2 Gallery, Dallas, Texas, 2015
You’re Pretty With Holly Wilson and Micheal Jones, Leslie Powell Foundation Gallery, Lawton, Oklahoma, 2011
Gruff & the P.I.P. List With Cassie Stover, 611 Creative, Oklahoma City, 2008
Triple Deco With Paul Mays and Natalie Moore, Individual Artists of Oklahoma Project Room, Oklahoma City, 2007
I knew I should’ve taken that left turn at Albuquerque III With Paho Mann and Leigh Merrill, Studio C, Phoenix, 2006
(Part II: 2005, Part I: 2002)
Selected Group Exhibitions
On Edge Cerulean Gallery, Amarillo, Texas, 2016
CHAOS Small works invitational Ro2 Art, Dallas, Texas, 2016 (2015)
A Hiding Place Curated by Ben Meyers and Jane Vincent Taylor, [Artspace] at Untitled, Oklahoma City, 2016
bARTer Current Studio, Oklahoma City, 2016
Yeah, It’s Salon Style Ro2 Art, Dallas, Texas, 2015
The Scenic Route Cerulean Gallery, Amarillo, Texas, 2015
Dallas Art Fair Ro2 Art at the Dallas Art Fair, Dallas, Texas, 2015
Women’s Works Northwest Area Arts Council, Woodstock, Illinois, 2014
Art Now Oklahoma Annual invitational, curated by Louise Siddons, City Arts Center, Oklahoma City, 2013
Horizontal Grandeur Stevens County Historical Museum, Morris, Minnesota, 2013
12x12 Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition, various venues, Oklahoma City 2013 (2012, 2011, 2010, 2009) 12x12okc.org
Art Now Oklahoma Annual invitational, curated by romy owens, City Arts Center, Oklahoma City, 2012
Straight From the Street Invitational, Istvan Gallery, Oklahoma City, 2012
Concept/OK: Art in Oklahoma Curated by Liza Statton & Alison Hearst, Hardesty Arts Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 2012
concept-ok.org
Small Works Invitational JRB Art Gallery at the Elms, Oklahoma City, 2012 (2011, 2010)
24 Works on Paper Curated by Louise Siddons, IAO Gallery, Oklahoma City, 2011
The Girlie Show Public Market, Oklahoma City, 2010
Heart and Soul of the Great Plains Group Invitational, Leslie Powell Foundation Gallery, Lawton, Oklahoma, 2010
Seeing Other People: Contemporary Portraiture Invited Artists Gallery in the Underground, Oklahoma City, 2009
Society of Illustrators 51st Annual Book & Editorial Exhibition Society of Illustrators, New York City, 2009
Core Evidence Invitational, Mainsite Contemporary Art, Norman, Oklahoma, 2009
24 Works On Paper Curated by Adrienne Day, IAO Gallery, Oklahoma City, 2009 24works.org
60 Artists : 60 Minutes
Curated by romy owens, Invited Artists Gallery in the Underground, Oklahoma City, 2009
Art365 Curated by Diane Barber, [Artspace] at Untitled, Oklahoma City, 2008
Traveling exhibition and $10,000 honorarium art365.org
Autobiovisual Riney Fine Arts Center, Friends University, Wichita, Kansas, 2008
Know Thyself: Self Portraits by Oklahoma Artists Invitational, Individual Artists of Oklahoma Gallery, Oklahoma City, 2008
Pop Surrealism Invitational, City Arts Center, Oklahoma City, 2007
Oklahoma: Centerfold 12th Oklahoma Biennial, Leslie Powell Foundation Gallery, Lawton, Oklahoma, 2006
Emergent Mainsite Gallery, Norman, Oklahoma, 2006
Women’s Invitational Sponsored by the National Women’s Hall of Fame, Genesee Community College, Batavia, New York, 2005
Juror’s Choice Award
Society of Illustrators Annual Scholarship Competition Society of Illustrators, New York City, 2005
Made in New York Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, New York, 2005
Inside [83] Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, 2003
Notable Collections
Abraham Art Foundation, New York City and Canadian, Texas
George Kaiser Family Foundation, Tulsa, Oklahoma
Wallace Memorial Library, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York
Publications & Reviews
“Artists Explore Nature in Exhibition,” by Chip Chandler for The Amarillo Globe-News, 6/5/2015
“A Hyperrealism that Questions Reality with James Zamora and Sarah Atlee at Ro2 Art”
Jenny Block for Huffington Post, 2/20/2015
“Pushing Borders, Stretching Form: The Ceramics of Birthe Flexner,” by Sarah Atlee Art Focus, Fall 2011
“Correspondence Courses: Lori Oden and Kate Rivers at Istvan Urban Art,” by Sarah Atlee Art Focus, Summer 2010
“Sarah Atlee conjures up patron saints in her exhibit ‘Heavens to Betsy’” review by Adam Kemp Oklahoma Gazette , May 2010
Braying From Burro Hill Written by Bob Rogers, illustrated by Sarah Atlee, 2010
Normal, OK Written and illustrated by Sarah Atlee (self-published), 2008
Nimrod International Literary Journal, Fall 2008
“Art 365: Sarah Atlee and Normal, OK,” Interview, Art Focus, Summer 2007
Education
Acrylic Painting workshop with Bert Seabourn, City Arts Center, Oklahoma City, 2013 and 2011
Creative Capital Professional Development Retreat, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 2012
Figure Drawing with Glen Thomas, City Arts Center, Oklahoma City, 2012
Master of Fine Arts, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, 2006
Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of New Mexico, 2001 Summa cum laude
Selected Available Works
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