Lives and works in New York, NY
My work focuses on the physicality of painting and it’s capacity to echo the properties of sculpture and architecture. It depicts large-scale abstract forms referencing poetry, the human body, microphones and armor. Themes of protection, personal power, love and connection run throughout the work.
Architectural strategies like scale and repetition are employed alongside textures that emulate protective coverings like stone,
My work focuses on the physicality of painting and it’s capacity to echo the properties of sculpture and architecture. It depicts large-scale abstract forms referencing poetry, the human body, microphones and armor. Themes of protection, personal power, love and connection run throughout the work.
Architectural strategies like scale and repetition are employed alongside textures that emulate protective coverings like stone, cement, metal and bark.
Sarah Dineen is a painter based in New York City and Massachusetts. She holds a BFA from Montserrat College of Art and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. She has been published in New American Paintings and Hyperallergic, and awarded artist residencies at Columbia University, the Sam and Adele Golden Foundation, the School of Visual Arts, NY, DNA Residency, Provincetown, MA, (sponsored by Freight & Volume Gallery, New York), and Pouch Cove Foundation, Newfoundland, Canada.
Dineen has shown her work widely in the United States and Germany, including Pulse Contemporary Art Fair, NY, Rick Wester Fine Art, NY, Leroy Neiman Gallery, NY, Edward Hopper House Museum, NY, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Direktorenhaus and Johanssen Gallery, Berlin.