Sarah Bedford

Sarah Bedford received an BA from Cooper Union, attended Skowhegan and received the Wallace E Truman Award in painting from the National Academy of Fine Arts as well as a fellowship at the Lower East Side Print Shop. She started her career in Williamsburg at Bellwether Gallery and currently shows at Mrs Gallery in Maspeth, Queens. Born and raised on a ranch in Eastern Montana she resides in Greenpoint Brooklyn. Her recent paintings and collages explore the visionary, metaphoric potential of floral still life.

Bedford’s shimmering tableaux combine collaged pieces of glitter and snakeskin with thinly painted Day-Glo colors inspired by the cluttered realms of her desk and kitchen counter. Daffodils, hot pink rubber gloves, nail polish and neon post-its suggest the quotidian, but in Bedford’s work they are anything but. Her paintings seem to depict the world she wants to see, versus accepting the one that is.

EXHIBITIONS:
A Vase is A Vase is A Vase
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