Intersections, 16" x 16"

Oil on Wood Panel, 16 x 16 inches.

"Have you ever wondered, years later, what became of the kids you played with down the street as a child? All the posibilities of where people’s stories take them in life to have had this intersection on a hot summer day, washing dad’s car. Do they have kids of their own now? Have they moved far away? I don’t remember the neighbor kid’s names so their figures are abstracted and faces obscured. I remember our cul de sac though. I even remember that ruffle pink swimsuit that was my favorite when I was 6 and how sad I was the summer it no longer fit. This painting makes me happy.

My work explores memory and change through imagery and the physical act of painting. The surface aggressively develops, pulling at threads of setting, figure and narrative gleaned from family photographs. It ages. The painted surface is aggressively worked in layers of added color only to be scraped away to abstractly reveal painting action from below, obliterating what was present. Fresh mark-making, born anew."  

Sarah Dillon is originally from Yakima, WA, and now based in Lake Tapps, WA. She received her MFA in painting from Boston University in 2004. Noted exhibitions include Gallery XIV in Boston, which was featured in The Wall Street Journal, Artscope Magazine, MSNBC, Imagine Arts, and Boston Globe. Sarah has exhibited work at the Washington State Convention Center, Blackfish Gallery, Portland, OR, Gallery 110, Seattle, WA, Brooklyn Art Library, NY, Western Bridge Gallery, Seattle, WA, Oxbow Gallery, Northampton, MA, Untitled Space Gallery, NY, Center on Contemporary and Political Art, DC, and Cave Gallery, Vancouver, WA to name a few. Sarah has created commissioned work for the Pike Place Market Foundation and is included in private collections around the country.