Exhibition Dates: April 25 – June 6, 2025
Spruill Gallery welcomes back Sarah Emerson, whose work is a notable part of the gallery’s contribution to public art. Returns featured recent works by Atlanta artist Sarah Emerson, whose work is a notable part of the Spruill Gallery’s contribution to public art. Quintessential of Emerson’s works, the exhibition presented viewers with highly stylized mixed-media drawings and paintings featuring versions of nature that combine geometric patterns and mythic archetypes to examine contemporary landscapes.
Sarah Emerson
Sarah Emerson is an Atlanta-based artist who graduated from the Atlanta College of Art in 1998 and completed her Master’s Degree at Goldsmiths College, London, in 2000. Emerson exhibits her work in galleries throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe, including White Columns, New York; Cosmic Galerie and Bugada and Cargnel, Paris; the Musee de la Civilisation, Quebec; Mirus Gallery, San Francisco; the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville; and the High Museum in Atlanta. Her work is published in Noplaceness: Art in a Post Urban Landscape, Stickers Deluxe: From Punk Rock to Contemporary Art, and New American Paintings in 2012, 2007, and 2003. She received the 2015 Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia Working Artist Project Grant, selected by Siri Engberg, Senior Curator of Visual Arts at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. Emerson was the 2014-2015 Kirk Visiting Artist Fellow at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, GA, where she teaches art.
Whitespace Gallery represents Sarah in Atlanta.
