“Light’s fleeting reflections and projections are harnessed and contained in Sarah Sanford’s abstract screenprints, drawings and collages — the most ethereal imagery I’ve seen this year. Sanford’s compositions, aided by digital photography and printmaking techniques, record illuminations using fluid layers of glimmering inks or controlled, hand-drawn marks. The results are dramatic light and dark impressions evocative of X-rays and blurred natural or human landscapes — both internal and external environments — from the minute to the mammoth. Screenprint “Primitive Streak” depicts a vertical, elliptical sac spanning a sheet of black paper from top to bottom. Layers of copper ink overlay a fuzzy, creamy glow of maybe lilies or bones or a long-stemmed growth inside the sac. Ink is rolled over the sphere’s upper edges in just the right places, adding texture and perception of depth.”
“Lightscape” Review, Susan Watt Grade. NUVO Cultural Foundation
12 layer screenprint on Somerset Satin paper, gloss varnish overlay
28” x 22”
2008
15 layer screenprint on Somerset Satin, gloss varnish overlay
16" x 34"
2008
16 layer screenprint on Somerset Satin, gloss varnish overlay
36" x 24"
2008
13 layer Screenprint on Somerset Satin, gloss varnish overlay
15" x 27"
2005
20 layer screenprint on Somerset Satin, gloss varnish overlay
27" x 32"
2005
20 layer Screenprint on Somerset Satin, gloss varnish overlay
37" x 25"
2005
15 layer Screenprint on Somerset Satin, gloss varnish overlay
21" x 27"
2005
18 layer screenprint on Somerset Satin, gloss varnish overlay
36" x 24"
2005
10 layer screenprint on Somerset Satin, gloss varnish overlay
22" x 15"
2004
12 layer screenprint on Somerset Satin, gloss varnish overlay
15" x 11"
2006
3- Panel, 18 layer screenprint on Somerset Satin, gloss varnish overlay
Approx 48" x 48"
2003