Sarah Butler
AUGUST SEVEN
ArtSpeak Gallery
1942 Wyandotte St. E.
Windsor, Ontario
The drawings, made with graphite and other mixed media in shades of black on black paper, continue an ongoing studio practice of acknowledging and embracing entropy. The PDF gathers titles-in-process and fragments of language from the studio. It also incorporates design elements common to the documents and forms required to realize the exhibition, offering an outline of the show as it was becoming—and ultimately, as it came to be. PDF
Amber Moon, 2026
Graphite, watercolor, ink, oil and rain on prepared paper
20 x 15.5 inches (51 x 39 cm)
Urgency and steadfastness mingle here, to stand still like a hummingbird. Some of my drawings spend time under spring snow, summer rain. Gold ink scripts are moved by the water. In some, oil is applied directly onto the unprepared surface. The page acquires a deeper black halo. Iridescent colors light many shadows. I’m going for a kind of accelerated patina, aged for embrace.
Over the years, the page edges slowly fade, we see even the oil of our hands.. You hardly notice the change except in photographs. There it is, hanging quietly in the background of an anniversary photo, so much darker than you remember. Perhaps the corners curl, keeping tabs on a fond passage. A bouquet that blooms over years.
July 10 to August 29, 2026
Opening Friday, July 10, 2026, at Miscellany Greene,
219 Mansion Street, Coxsackie, New York.
By appointment with Wendy Van Lare,
miscellanygreene@gmail.com
Nine Poems, checklist available here.
In the Heart of Winter
21 Reed Street, 12051
February 15 – March 30, 2025
Featuring works by: Ann Agee, Sarah Butler, Owen Carter, Erika de Vries, Lauren Drescher, Emma Fujiko, Valerie Hammond, Luc Hammond Thomas, Jared Handelsman, Adelle Lutz, Portia Munson, Lothar Osterberg, India Sachi, Kiki Smith, and Tomas Vu.