Artist Statement
As a landscape painter from Southern California, I capture the light of neighborhoods in their ever-changing environment. I paint the regions of Southern California that were developed in the 1920s and 1930s. Echo Park was one area I started painting, before there was even a coffeehouse. Now, whole swaths of diverse California bungalows, Spanish style houses and iconic Los Angeles apartments with well-established landscaping and trees are disappearing They are often replaced with buildings that have no consideration for proportion and the surrounding buildings and neighborhoods. I try to capture these places with paint; thick, gestural brushstrokes evoke the color, rhythm and patterns of buildings and foliage of the rapidly disappearing neighborhoods. By documenting communities on the brink of change I try to evoke in light, color and texture a moment in time.
I have had exhibitions in Cobleskill, New York; CSULB, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo; CSU Dominguez Hills; the Long Beach Museum of Art, the Downey Museum of Art and the Pasadena Historical Museum.
Bibliography
Sarah Arnold: Painting a Rapidly Disappearing Past in Perfectly Present Images
Under Construction paints a picture of the Gerald Desmond’s creation
CSULB alumni capture the new Gerald Desmond Bridge in art exhibit
JUNE 13, 2001 Schenectady Daily Gazette
OCTOBER, 2001 Los Angeles Times
JANUARY 30, 1999 Long Beach Press Telegram
JUNE 18, 1997 Pasadena Star News
MARCH, 1997 Santa Anita Magazine
MARCH 6, 1997 Pasadena Star News
APRIL 7, 1996 Long Beach Press Telegram
SEPTEMBER 2, 1995 Long Beach Press Telegram