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Sarah Vaaler - A featured artist at the Lanning Gallery [Sedona Arizona]
 
There is a layered dimensionality to Sarah Vaaler’s paintings that rewards repeated viewings. “To live with her work, to spend time with a piece, allows for a decided sensitivity to come through,” states Gallery Director Isabelle Cozart. “Sarah is an up and coming artist whose work we’re eager to bring to a wide audience.”

Vaaler, who has gravitated toward art her entire life, has a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Minnesota, a Graphic Arts Degree from Platt College in San Diego, additional studies at Scottsdale Artists School in Arizona and has worked in advertising and publishing for many years. “Although I took Studio art and photography classes in high school, college and beyond,” she says, “the idea of having a career as a fine artist didn’t take hold until my fortieth birthday . . . The process of finding a vision was a long process for me. I never considered selling my work in galleries until that vision gelled and until my ability to master certain techniques could keep up with my vision. And for me that occurred at middle age.”

"Moonshot"
Acrylic on Canvas Painting
48" x 36"

The staggering skills and vision that now flood Vaaler’s canvases are a testament to the power of patience. Her hallmark is a layered dimensionality of amorphous shapes in striking non-uniform color fields. She works quickly, painting on a wet canvas that is lying flat; acrylics are her medium of choice. This technique allows for varying amounts of color to melt together; highlights and obscurations follow in additional layers. A glossy finish brings out the layers of color on each piece, an effect not unlike looking at rocks under water.
 

"Verbatum"
Acrylic on Canvas Painting
36" x 36"
“Non-objective subject matter has always excited and challenged me as both a painter and a viewer,” Vaaler says. “Creating an abstract work of art is . . . about capturing something elusive and fleeting, like reigning in chaos. And the viewer can be involved in that.”

For the artist, time has given her the ability to see art in the unexpected and confidence to do away with horizons and other references from nature or architecture. Lanning Gallery’s owner, Peggy Lanning, remarks that, “For an emerging artist Sarah exhibits remarkable complexity; there is a good deal going on in her canvases and it is exciting to see visitors discover this for themselves. Sophisticated abstract paintings, of great depth, are what define her.”

 

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"Inside Passage"
Acrylic on Canvas Painting
20" x 20"

 

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