Artist

Sarah McCoubrey

Featured News

Sarah McCoubrey - Artists - Locks Gallery

"There has been a debate for centuries over whether man’s incursions should be considered natural. McCoubrey’s answer seems to be that, while humanity’s effects on the planet can have devastating consequences, they are not only subsumed, but also to an important extent ignored, by nature. More importantly, her work is a stimulus to seeing. Her paintings make us aware and appreciative of scenes we may pass every day without paying attention. They also cause us to question what we see as normal, or natural. Whether we can shift the norm is up to each of us. "

- Vincent Katz, Sarah McCoubrey: Looking for the Normal, 2008

Images

Pink Butter, 2018

gouache and acrylic on butter wrappers mounted to vellum

22 x 25 inches

Indigo Moon, 2017

gouache and acrylic on paper

30 1/4 x 22 inches

Hooge Crater, 2015

gouache on paper mounted on panel

11 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches

White: Mauser, Lebel Me 1, Manlicher, P14, 2015

gouache on butter wrapping

16 1/4 x 19 inches

Soldier with Gas Mask I, 2015

gouache on paper

10 1/2 x 8 inches

Sarah McCoubrey Locks Gallery

Boats on the Water, 2014
ink and gouache on paper
41 1/2 x 34 inches

Fate and Transport (Large), 2012
pen and ink, gouache on paper
48 x 70 inches

Sarah McCoubrey Locks Gallery

Floating Earth, 2012
oil on wood panel
16 x 15 inches

Snooks Pond Oil Tank Takes Off, 2012

oil on canvas

45 x 37 1/2 inches

Sarah McCoubrey Locks Gallery

Escape Vehicle: Potato With Propeller, 2012
ink, graphite and gouache on digital print
33 x 30 inches

Sarah McCoubrey Locks Gallery

Fox I, 2012

oil on panel

45 x 37 1/2 inches

Mitigation, 2008

oil on wood panel

24 x 22 1/2 inches

Sarah McCoubrey Locks Gallery

Christmas Tree Mulch, 2008
oil on panel
36 x 30 inches

Available, 2000

oil on wood panel

24 x 22 1/2 inches

Fire, 1997

oil on wood panel

16 x 15 inches

Artist Bio

Sarah McCoubrey received her MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and is a Professor in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University. She is the recipient of several grants, including the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting, a Milton Avery Foundation Fellowship, a MacDowell Colony Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Grant Award, and a New York State Council on the Arts Grant.

In her masterful realist style, McCoubrey’s paintings focus on the human landscape and how we shape the earth. Combining fantastical allegory with observational acuity, her work presses us to consider our ecological footprint and how we coexist with the land we live on. Referencing a range of art histories from the techniques of Dutch masters, the landscape tradition of the Hudson River School, and the worlds created by Hieronymus Bosch, her study of painting en plain air and sophisticated glazing allows her to create luminous paintings with intense detail.

McCoubrey has held significant solo exhibitions at institutions including the Everson Museum of Art, the Clifford Gallery at Colgate College, The Bannister Gallery at Rhode Island College, the Luther Brady Gallery at George Washington University, and the Morris Gallery at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

Download CV

Back To Top