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"4896 Dancing Feet" 2022, Digital Photograph, Printed and Framed , 10" x 15"
"5178 Fingers" 2022, 10" x 10" or 16" x 16"
"6206 Neck in Window Light" 2023, photograph, 12" x 18”
"5777 Turning Back" 2023, 20" x 22"
"8666 Arms and Legs" 2023, photograph
"6544 Side Folds" 2023, photograph
"8666 Side" 2023, photograph
"1870 Arms Along Leg" 2023, photograph
"1378 Palm" 2023, photograph
"5193 Pensive in Mirror" 2023, photograph
"Two Legs"
"Feet Rising"
"Curves" 2023
"Forehead"
"Finger to Thumb"
"Bent Legs"
"Side Abstractly"
"Single Foot"
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Member Portfolio

Sara Allen

Philadelphia, PA

Résumé

Artist Statement

Sara is exploring ways of illustrating the naturally aging body with its creases, folds, and rough textures, its bumps and lines and spots. INSCAPE: Landscape of the Self, a solo show at DaVinci Art Alliance in 2022, a series of self-portraits that move from black and white to color images. Inscape plays with “landscape” and “in” or “interior” to suggest emotions arising from from the exploration of the physical nature of the aging body. In FRAGMENTS, a solo show at Abington Art  Center in 2023, she seeks to make the ordinary body strange. The parts are familiar: the neck, the brow, the back, the fingers and hands, the legs and feet, the torso from the side or the back. The images are playful, unexpected, even strange. She hopes the images encourage the viewer to look anew at what is beautiful and fascinating about the human body.

Education

1964 Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
BA History

1987 Middlebury College, Breadloaf School of English
MA English

Curating

Northwest Village Network
Center on the Hill, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, PA, 2019

Exhibitions

Solo

2023
Sara Allen Fragments, Fall Solo Series, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA

2022
Inscape: Landscape of the Self
, DaVinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA

Group

2024
The Naked Show, InLiquid Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2023
The Artists of NW Philly, No Name Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Seven Photographers: Seven Ways of Looking at the World, Mt Airy Art Garage, Philadelphia, PA
Featuring: Sara Allen, Charles Andaloro, Reed Gustow, Dove Nasir, Claire Robinson, Jill Galoway Sherman, and Eileen Talanian.
In 2020, this group of photographers, forced into isolation, turned to Zoom to continue their critique class. This show celebrates 3 years of growing and developing as photographers and artists.

New Now VI, InLiquid Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

In Search of Something More, DaVinci Art Alliance Member Show, Philadelphia, PA

2022
Aging as Art: A Juried Photography Show
, Council on Aging - Southern California, 2022

PhotoEx 2022, Juried Photography Exhibit, Media Arts Council, Media, PA

Family Room, DaVinci Art Alliance Members Invitational, Philadelphia, PA

The Perfect Age-Reflections on the Passage of Time, A National Juried Exhibition Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI

2020 - 2021
Just Imagine Annual Art Show
, Abington Arts Center, Abington, PA

2014
A Body in 30th Street Station: Eiko Otake
, Mt Airy Art Garage Member Show Philadelphia, PA

Member Shows

2023
Mt. Airy Art Garage Members Show
, Philadelphia, PA

2022
Through the Lens
, Mt Airy Art Garage Member Show, Philadelphia, PA

Lifeblood, Mt. Airy Art Garage Member Show, Philadelphia, PA

2021
The Art of Photography
, Mt Airy Art Garage Member Show, Philadelphia, PA

PPAC/TILT Member Shows, tiltinstitute.org, 2014 - 2019, 2021, 2022

Relative: Seeing Ourselves/Seeing Others, SXSE Center for Photography Gallery, Molena, GA

Online Exhibitions

2023
Emptiness,
Exhibizone 2022, International Online Group Exhibition

Artistonish, Magazine 30th Issue (Online and Print)

Figures and Faces, Las Laguna Gallery, Juried Online Exhibition

2022
Human Faces and Features
Las Laguna Gallery - Juried Online Exhibition

Women in Art, Las Laguna Gallery, Juried Online Exhibition

Femina [Woman], Gallerium Art Exhibitions & The Book of Arts Publication (Exhibition and Publication)

The Perfect Age-Reflections on the Passage of Time, Hera Gallery, Hera Educational Foundation, Wakefield, RI

LensCulture, Competition Gallery Portraits Award

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