Sarah Mikenis: A New Season

“While the sculptural forms of my paintings have become more physical, more dynamic, more forceful – the surface painting is kind of the opposite, focused on slow reflection, stillness, and beauty." 

Diane Rosenstein Gallery is happy to announce A New Season, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Brooklyn-based artist Sarah Mikenis. For her second solo exhibition with our gallery, Mikenis will show a suite of seven new gradient paintings in our Project Room. This body of work is tied to her recent experience with pregnancy and motherhood – and what she describes as a new season in her life. 

The artist writes, “While the sculptural forms of my paintings have become more physical, more dynamic, more forceful – the surface painting is kind of the opposite, focused on slow reflection, stillness, and beauty. The surface painting/color is loosely based on skies – observed, found, or imagined. I’m thinking about the sky, light, times of day (particularly transitional times like early morning and late evening). I build depth of color in the paintings with many layers of thin, transparent oil paint.”