
Sarah Crowner
Sun, 2021
Acrylic on canvas, sewn
78 x 60 inches
(198.12 x 152.4 cm)
Visual artist Sarah Crowner (b. 1974, Philadelphia) makes paintings, ceramics, sculptures, installations, and theater sets. Her large-scale sewn canvases display a fluency in mid-twentieth-century art, artists, and architecture, with a particular regard for geometric abstraction and color field compositions. Crowner’s rigorous practice has long engaged thematic research with an abiding interest in materials, craft, and their related histories and processes.
Architecture and space are as significant to Crowner’s practice as is painting. Her tiled platforms, stone sculptures, and site-specific wall pieces transform spaces into three-dimensional experiences in which the viewer processes the environment as one autonomous artwork. Her patterns, drawn equally from the natural world and historic sources, create an entryway between the art object and the context, enabling the viewer to literally step inside her work. Crowner has also created set designs for dance and theatrical performance, which further underscore her desire and ability to envelop the viewer in her vision, and blur distinctions between various media and scales.
Sarah Crowner
Underwater Moonlight, 2021
Acrylic on canvas, sewn
70 x 79 inches
(177.8 x 200.7 cm)
Sarah Crowner earned a BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1996 and an MFA from Hunter College, City University of New York in 2002. In September 2023, the Pulitzer Arts Foundation will host Sarah Crowner: Around Orange, an exhibition of three new site-specific artworks responding to the architecture of the Pulitzer’s Tadao Ando building and Ellsworth Kelly’s monumental wall sculpture, Blue Black. Also in September 2023 the Hill Art Foundation will present The Sea, the Sky, a Window, a project by Sarah Crowner that will place site-specific works by the artist in dialogue with sculptures and paintings from the Hill Collection, as well as key loaned works, most notably works by Cy Twombly. Other significant recent projects include a 2022 solo exhibition at Museo Amparo in Puebla, Mexico, which was accompanied by a catalogue, as well as a 2022 commission by the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, TX for a site-specific tile installation that will remain on view into 2024. In 2016, Crowner was the subject of a solo exhibition at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA; a major monograph was produced on the occasion of that exhibition. Crowner’s work has also been featured in a number of group exhibitions, including the Whitney Biennial 2010, New York; Abstract Generation: Now in Print, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2013); Excursus IV: Primary Information, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (2013); Painter Painter, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2013); Conversation Piece, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2014); and the Carnegie International Exhibition, 57th Edition (2018). Her work is in the collections of major international institutions including Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA; The Contemporary Austin, TX; Dallas Museum of Art, TX; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA; Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; and Walker Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN.
Sarah Crowner
Reclining Forms, Open and Closed, 2022
Acrylic on canvas, sewn
90 x 70 inches
(228.6 x 177.8 cm)
Sarah Crowner
Another Green World, 2021
Acrylic on canvas, sewn
78 x 72 inches
(198.1 x 182.9 cm)
Sarah Crowner
Lovers Up and Down, 2022
Acrylic on canvas, sewn
2 panels, Each: 80 x 30 inches (203.2 x 76.2 cm)
Sarah Crowner
Scene from Garden Blue, 2018
American Ballet Theater, New York
Sets and costumes by Sarah Crowner, choreographed by Jessica Lang
Photo by Rosalie O'Connor; Courtesy of American Ballet Theatre.
Sarah Crowner
Scene from Garden Blue, 2018
American Ballet Theater, New York
Sets and costumes by Sarah Crowner, choreographed by Jessica Lang
Photo by Rosalie O'Connor; Courtesy of American Ballet Theatre.
Sarah Crowner
Scene from Garden Blue, 2018
American Ballet Theater, New York
Sets and costumes by Sarah Crowner, choreographed by Jessica Lang
Photo by Rosalie O'Connor; Courtesy of American Ballet Theatre.
Sarah Crowner
Scene from Garden Blue, 2018
American Ballet Theater, New York
Sets and costumes by Sarah Crowner, choreographed by Jessica Lang
Photo by Rosalie O'Connor; Courtesy of American Ballet Theatre.
Sarah Crowner
Scene from Garden Blue, 2018
American Ballet Theater, New York
Sets and costumes by Sarah Crowner, choreographed by Jessica Lang
Photo by Rosalie O'Connor; Courtesy of American Ballet Theatre.
Sarah Crowner
Scene from Garden Blue, 2018
American Ballet Theater, New York
Sets and costumes by Sarah Crowner, choreographed by Jessica Lang
Photo by Rosalie O'Connor; Courtesy of American Ballet Theatre.
Sarah Crowner
Lovers Up and Down, Blues, 2022
Acrylic on canvas, sewn
80 x 84 inches
(203.2 x 213.4 cm)
Sarah Crowner
Spring, 2021
Acrylic on canvas, sewn
86 x 92 inches
(218.4 x 233.7 cm)
Sarah Crowner
An Ocean Between the Waves, 2021
Acylic on canvas, sewn
114 x 76 inches
(289.6 x 193 cm)
Sarah Crowner
Ceiling (Stretched Pentagons), 2022
Glazed terracotta tiles, plywood, aluminum, mortar, grout
Dimensions variable
Valhalla at Punta Mita, Mexico
Architecture by Tatiana Bilbao Studio
Photography by Luis Gallardo / LGM Studio Mexico City
Sarah Crowner
Ceiling (Stretched Pentagons), 2022
Glazed terracotta tiles, plywood, aluminum, mortar, grout
Dimensions variable
Valhalla at Punta Mita, Mexico
Architecture by Tatiana Bilbao Studio
Photography by Luis Gallardo / LGM Studio Mexico City
Sarah Crowner
Ceiling (Stretched Pentagons), 2022
Glazed terracotta tiles, plywood, aluminum, mortar, grout
Dimensions variable
Valhalla at Punta Mita, Mexico
Architecture by Tatiana Bilbao Studio
Photography by Luis Gallardo / LGM Studio Mexico City
Sarah Crowner
Ceiling (Stretched Pentagons), 2022
Glazed terracotta tiles, plywood, aluminum, mortar, grout
Dimensions variable
Valhalla at Punta Mita, Mexico
Architecture by Tatiana Bilbao Studio
Photography by Luis Gallardo / LGM Studio Mexico City
Sarah Crowner
Ceiling (Stretched Pentagons), 2022
Glazed terracotta tiles, plywood, aluminum, mortar, grout
Dimensions variable
Valhalla at Punta Mita, Mexico
Architecture by Tatiana Bilbao Studio
Photography by Luis Gallardo / LGM Studio Mexico City
Sarah Crowner
Ceiling (Stretched Pentagons), 2022
Glazed terracotta tiles, plywood, aluminum, mortar, grout
Dimensions variable
Valhalla at Punta Mita, Mexico
Architecture by Tatiana Bilbao Studio
Photography by Luis Gallardo / LGM Studio Mexico City
Sarah Crowner
Ceiling (Stretched Pentagons), 2022
Glazed terracotta tiles, plywood, aluminum, mortar, grout
Dimensions variable
Valhalla at Punta Mita, Mexico
Architecture by Tatiana Bilbao Studio
Photography by Luis Gallardo / LGM Studio Mexico City
Sarah Crowner
Sliced Dusk (Lilacs, Greens), 2018
Acrylic on canvas, sewn
84 x 70 inches
(213.4 x 177.8 cm)
Sarah Crowner
Split Tiger (after PR), 2019
Paint and silkscreen on paper
39 x 30 inches
(99.1 x 76.2 cm)
Sarah Crowner
Split Tiger (after PR), 2019
Paint and silkscreen on paper
Each: 39 x 30 inches (99.1 x 76.2 cm)
Sarah Crowner
Split Tiger (after PR), 2019
Paint and silkscreen on paper
39 x 30 inches
(99.1 x 76.2 cm)
Sarah Crowner
Split Tiger (after PR), 2019
Paint and silkscreen on paper
Each: 39 x 30 inches (99.1 x 76.2 cm)
Sarah Crowner
Night Painting with Verticals, 2020
Acrylic on canvas, sewn
72 x 208 inches
(182.9 x 528.32 cm)
Sarah Crowner
Wall (Wavy Arrow Terracotta), 2018
Glazed terracotta tiles, plywood, aluminum, mortar, grout
Dimensions variable
Sarah Crowner
Wall (Wavy Arrow Terracotta), 2018
Glazed terracotta tiles, plywood, aluminum, mortar, grout
Dimensions variable
Sarah Crowner
Wall (Wavy Arrow Terracotta), 2018
Glazed terracotta tiles, plywood, aluminum, mortar, grout
Dimensions variable
Sarah Crowner
Wall (Wavy Arrow Terracotta), 2018
Glazed terracotta tiles, plywood, aluminum, mortar, grout
Dimensions variable
Sarah Crowner
Night Blooming, 2021
Acrylic on canvas, sewn
65 x 98 inches
(165 x 249 cm)
Sarah Crowner
Wall (Hot Blue Terracotta), 2014-16
Glazed terracotta tiles, plywood, aluminum, mortar, grout
120 x 240 inches
(304.8 x 609.6 cm)
Sarah Crowner
Falling Black Shapes, Yellow and Lilac, 2019
Acrylic on canvas, sewn
84 x 60 inches
(213.4 x 152.4 cm)
Sarah Crowner
Balancing Shapes (Lilac, Green, Black), 2019
Acrylic on canvas, sewn
86 x 72 inches
(218.4 x 182.9 cm)
Sarah Crowner
Untitled (Swimming Pool), 2018
Mixed tiles
Dimensions variable
Courtesy Funcacion Proal, Veracruz, Mexico
Photo: Alex Barrios
Sarah Crowner
Untitled (Swimming Pool), 2018
Mixed tiles
Dimensions variable
Courtesy Funcacion Proal, Veracruz, Mexico
Photo: Alex Barrios
Sarah Crowner
Untitled (Swimming Pool), 2018
Mixed tiles
Dimensions variable
Courtesy Funcacion Proal, Veracruz, Mexico
Photo: Alex Barrios
Sarah Crowner
Sun, 2021
Acrylic on canvas, sewn
78 x 60 inches
(198.12 x 152.4 cm)
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