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Sarah McKenzie
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| Born | April 15, 1971 Greenwich, Connecticut, U.S.
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| Education | 1998, MFA, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; 1993, BA, Yale University, New Haven, CT |
| Known for | Painting |
Sarah McKenzie (born 1971) is an American painter from Greenwich, Connecticut. She is known for her unique paintings that often show buildings and spaces. Her artwork has been shown in many places, including solo shows at the David B. Smith Gallery in Denver and the Jen Bekman Gallery in New York. Her paintings have also been part of group shows at famous places like the Walker Art Center and the Carnegie Museum of Art.
What Sarah McKenzie Paints
Sarah McKenzie creates her art using oil and acrylic paints on canvas. She is famous for painting buildings and places that are changing. Her past work has shown things like construction sites, empty buildings, hotel rooms, and parking garages. These are all places that are not fixed but are always in motion or being updated.
White Walls Series
From 2014 to 2020, Sarah McKenzie worked on a special series of paintings called White Walls. In these artworks, she focused on the architecture of art spaces. She painted art fair tents, simple museum rooms, and video screening areas. Her work has been inspired by ideas from a book called Inside the White Cube, which talks about how art galleries have changed over time.
In 2021, Sarah McKenzie started a new project. She began exploring the architecture of the US prison system through her art.
Awards and Recognition
Sarah McKenzie has received many important awards for her paintings. In 2021, she won the Marion International Fellowship for the Visual and Performing Arts. She also received a grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation in 2012, which helps painters and sculptors.
Other awards include the Alexander Rutsch Award in Painting in 2019 and an Individual Artist Award from the Santo Foundation in 2019. She also won First Place in the National Young Painters Exhibition in 2006.
Her paintings have been featured in many magazines and books. Some of these include Artforum, New American Paintings, New York Times, and Dwell Magazine. Her work was also included in the 2014 book, Imagine Architecture: Artistic Visions of the Urban Realm.
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