Sabine Carlson
Sabine Carlson is an American painter born 1960 in Cologne, Germany. She exhibits widely in the United States as well as internationally. Her work is included in public, corporate and private collections in Germany, Italy, in the Netherlands, the United Arab Emirates and the United States. Her paintings are featured in ‘Studio Visit’, ‘American Art Collector’, ‘West Branch’ and ‘New American Paintings’. Carlson holds a BFA from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis and an MFA from the University of California, Irvine. She has been working as a creative in the Mid Atlantic Region since 1995. Her main studio is located in the Washington, DC metro area.
Recent exhibitions in the Washington DC metro area include ‘Finding Home’, juried by Nancy Sausser, Harmony Hall Art Center, Ft. Washington, MD; ‘Symbiotic Presence’, juried by Shanti Norris, Brentwood Arts Exchange, Brentwood, MD; ‘Tracing Ripples’, paintings by Sabine Carlson, Ebbeler Family MDHC Gallery, Pyramid Atlantic Arts Bldg., Hyattsville, MD, ‘Art of Engagement’, National Juried Exhibition, juried by Jack Rassmussen, Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC
Recent exhibitions with Viridian Artists in New York, NY include ‘The Gift’; ‘HOPE, a Virtual Invitational Exhibit’; ‘50th Anniversary Exhibition’.
Since fall 2021 Carlson is represented by VIRIDIAN ARTISTS as an …
Sabine Carlson is an American painter born 1960 in Cologne, Germany. She exhibits widely in the United States as well as internationally. Her work is included in public, corporate and private collections in Germany, Italy, in the Netherlands, the United Arab Emirates and the United States. Her paintings are featured in ‘Studio Visit’, ‘American Art Collector’, ‘West Branch’ and ‘New American Paintings’. Carlson holds a BFA from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis and an MFA from the University of California, Irvine. She has been working as a creative in the Mid Atlantic Region since 1995. Her main studio is located in the Washington, DC metro area.
Recent exhibitions in the Washington DC metro area include ‘Finding Home’, juried by Nancy Sausser, Harmony Hall Art Center, Ft. Washington, MD; ‘Symbiotic Presence’, juried by Shanti Norris, Brentwood Arts Exchange, Brentwood, MD; ‘Tracing Ripples’, paintings by Sabine Carlson, Ebbeler Family MDHC Gallery, Pyramid Atlantic Arts Bldg., Hyattsville, MD, ‘Art of Engagement’, National Juried Exhibition, juried by Jack Rassmussen, Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC
Recent exhibitions with Viridian Artists in New York, NY include ‘The Gift’; ‘HOPE, a Virtual Invitational Exhibit’; ‘50th Anniversary Exhibition’.
Since fall 2021 Carlson is represented by VIRIDIAN ARTISTS as an affiliate.
Artist Statement
Ways of traversing landscape is a recurring theme in Carlson’s work. She aims for a wobbly kind of balance, where definition and doubt keep each other upright.
The figures in her recent paintings show their identity in fleeting partial views. Humans have floating devices or ice skates. Birds’ exaggerated swim fins point to a life in the water, but in her paintings you find them balancing as if on dry land. When the paintings show various displaced travelers as they encounter each other, birds can be seen looking at the humans’ feet, or, in case of a tree, its roots.
Where have you been? Where are you going? How do you stand? Carlson keeps on making beautiful visual spaces that nourish the persistence of these questions.
