Sarah Blaustein

Sarah Blaustein’s practice centers on painting as a living, relational space that unfolds between the work and the viewer. Through spontaneous, gestural mark-making with acrylic, ink, and water, she creates surfaces that appear wet, breathing, and in motion, encouraging close looking and self-reflection. Guided by intuition and an economy of means, Blaustein responds to color, memory, and bodily sensation in real time, allowing each painting to evolve through a continuous dialogue. Her work seeks to hold intangible emotional states, particularly those shaped by lived experience, offering the painting as a site of shared presence and human connection.

Sarah Blaustein (b. 1982, San Francisco, CA) has had recent solo exhibitions at Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Institute of Contemporary Art San José, San José, CA; private showing at PACE Gallery, Palo Alto, CA; and HESSE FLATOW, New York, NY. Her work has been included in group shows at Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Paul Thiebaud Gallery, San Francisco, CA; and HESSE FLATOW East Gallery, Amagansett, NY. Blaustein lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area.