Somewhere in the Middle, 16" x 16"

Oil on Wood Panel, 16 x 16 inches.

"Lately I have been abstractly thinking about the word “home” and the many places we title as home throughout our lives. Homes we have lived in, moved from, homes of people we care about that bring on memories of familiarity, places where we make our own homes for our children and the social dynamics where we presently live, or who has lived here before us. This home was not a well-built structure and I doubt it exists on the property anymore. My grandparent’s presence will always be a part of the landscape though, joining the presence of those that made their home here before them. Here they sit abstractly melting into the space.

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.