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SARA DAVID RINGLER ARTIST STATEMENT Image making is a way to interact and reflect my experience. Through printmaking I arrange alter and layer forms of shapes and color. I explore variation and abstractly combine a variety of media making visual connections. I am constantly exploring new variations. Nature, the figure and architecture merge abstractly to create metaphoric associations. I explore process as a creative challenge and use it as an avenue for expressive possibility incorporating multiple images, to create visual stories of memory, place and time. I integrate various printmaking techniques such as the painterly monotype with the bold graphic directness of etching. The monotype process is direct and fluid and allows for an instantaneous dialog with the work as it is being created. Successive layering of images, adding or wiping away ink is a way to form each image in an organic balance. As a professional printmaker and art professor teaching drawing, printmaking, design, book arts and papermaking at Cape Cod Community College for over 20 years, I have enjoyed an ever- inspiring interaction between creating and teaching art. I am the mother of three adult children and three grandchildren and have lived on Cape Cod with my husband for over forty years Printmaking enables me to build on themes and to create series of related images. In that way I can tell a story and relate to time and sequence. I work intuitively and responsively to each piece and investigate variations in composition and content. Generally there is idea I build on and I use the process of printmaking to find my images. I begin with a general concept and look for a feeling of space and atmosphere using various materials and inks. I layer plates with multiple printing, and pull together elements to find balance in the compositions. University of Massachusetts, S. Dartmouth, MFA 88`. SUNY Buffalo, N.Y. BFA 69`
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SARA DAVID RINGLER
ARTIST STATEMENT Image making is a way to interact and reflect my experience. Through printmaking I arrange alter and layer forms of shapes and color. I explore variation and abstractly combine a variety of media making visual connections. I am constantly exploring new variations. Nature, the figure and architecture merge abstractly to create metaphoric associations. I explore process as a creative challenge and use it as an avenue for expressive possibility incorporating multiple images, to create visual stories of memory, place and time. I integrate various printmaking techniques such as the painterly monotype with the bold graphic directness of etching. The monotype process is direct and fluid and allows for an instantaneous dialog with the work as it is being created. Successive layering of images, adding or wiping away ink is a way to form each image in an organic balance. As a professional printmaker and art professor teaching drawing, printmaking, design, book arts and papermaking at Cape Cod Community College for over 20 years, I have enjoyed an ever- inspiring interaction between creating and teaching art. I am the mother of three adult children and three grandchildren and have lived on Cape Cod with my husband for over forty years Printmaking enables me to build on themes and to create series of related images. In that way I can tell a story and relate to time and sequence. I work intuitively and responsively to each piece and investigate variations in composition and content. Generally there is idea I build on and I use the process of printmaking to find my images. I begin with a general concept and look for a feeling of space and atmosphere using various materials and inks. I layer plates with multiple printing, and pull together elements to find balance in the compositions. University of Massachusetts, S. Dartmouth, MFA 88`. SUNY Buffalo, N.Y. BFA 69`
SARA DAVID RINGLER
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EXHIBITS Fifth National Monotype/Monoprint Juried Exhibition, Duxbury MA 2018 The Balcony Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Cape Cod Hospital, 2018 Creative Hands Gallery, Osterville, MA 2018 Botanicals Reinterpreted, Dillon Gallery SSAC 2018 Preserving the Very Nature of Cape Cod, CCMOA 2018 Facing the Wall, The Vets Gallery, Providence RI, 2018 Focus on the Figure, North River Arts Society, Marshfield MA 2018 Unique Perspectives, Mashpee Public Library, PCC 2017 CCCC Faculty Exhibition, Higgins Art Gallery, 2016 Alternative Photography and Digital Techniques, Higgins Art Gallery, 2016 Wanderlust (handmade book), Ex-Libris Exchange, French Cultural Center Boston, MA 2016, Gibson Gallery, Potsdam NY, Printmaking Juried by Harvey Breverman, 2016 Brewster Ladies Library, Brewster, PCC 2016 Contemporary Cape Cod Artists on Abstraction, Tao Water Gallery 2015 MGNE Annual Exhibition, Zullo Gallery Center for the Arts, Unique Impressions V, 2015 Figuratively Speaking, Cotuit Center for the Arts, 2015 Heavenly Bodies, Cultural Center of Cape Cod, 2014 100 works, Yarmouth Preservation Foundation, 2014 All About Seven, Cape Cod Museum of Art, 2014 Faculty Exhibition, Higgins Art Gallery, Cape Cod Community College, 2014 The Image Transformed, Southshore Art Center, 2014 Interplay: Mixed Media Digital Art, Cotuit Center for the Arts, 2013 Expressions, Zullo Gallery Center for the Arts, Medfield, MA February 2011 MGNE, Snow Library, January 2011 CCCC Faculty Exhibition, Higgins Art Gallery, November 2010 Printmakers of Cape Cod, Cape Museum of Art 2010 East meets West, solo exhibition, Higgins Art Gallery CCCC, 2010 Falmouth Artist’s Center 2010, Guyer Barn 2010 David and the Four Graces, Lynn Center for the Arts, April 2009 SRISA, Florence, Italy solo exhibition, December 2008 State of the Art, Bunker Hill Community College Art Gallery, Boston MA 2007 Duxbury Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA February, 2006 Wellfleet Library, Wellfleet, MA February, 2006 Salt Meadow Gallery, East Sandwich, MA 2005-06 Making Good Impressions, Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit 2005 Brewster in Spring, Brewster Ladies Library, 2005 Cotuit Art Center, Cotuit Spring 2005 Gladys Dorfman Memorial Exhibit, Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Spring 2004 Women Creating, Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Spring 2004 Faxon Center, Falmouth Hospital, 2004 Group Gallery, The Star Gallery, Orleans MA, Summer 2003 Group Show The New Hampshire Institute of Art, Manchester, NH Spring 2003 Group Show Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester Vermont, Spring 2003 Duxbury Art Association, The Ellison Center for the Arts, Duxbury, Spring 2003 Women and Wax, Higgins Art Gallery, Cape Cod Community College, March 2003 Teichman Gallery, Brewster, Fall 2001, summer 2002, 2003
SARA DAVID RINGLER
[email protected] www.saradavidringlerart.com
Duxbury Art Association, The Ellison Center for the Arts, March 2001 Open Door Gallery, Falmouth MA, Summer 2000 3rd Annual MGNE Exhibit, Duxbury Art Complex, January-March, 2000 Different Strokes, The Gallery at C3TV, one person exhibit Dec.99-Jan. 2000 Newport Art Museum, Newport RI, November, 1999-2000 Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis MA 1998 The Wellfleet Collection, Wellfleet, MA The Giving Tree Art Gallery, East Sandwich, MA The Higgins Art Gallery, West Barnstable, MA 1998 The Cape Cod Art Association, Barnstable, MA 1999 Cahoon Museum, Marstons Mills, MA, Invitational Exhibit 1994 Gallery X, New Bedford, MA 1996 Cataumet Art Center, Cataumet, MA 1997 Midwest Print Council Traveling Exhibit 1997-98 New Impressions, Federal Reserve Bank, Boston MA 1992 Annual Juried Show, Southshore Art Center, Cohasset, MA 1992 Boston Printmakers Annual Show, Duxbury Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, 1992 Great Press, The Gallery at C3TV, South Yarmouth MA 1991 Small Works, Grey Seal Gallery, Falmouth MA 1991 Printmakers of Cape Cod Cape Museum of Art, Dennis, 1991 Small Works, Juried Show, Hydrangea House Gallery, Newport RI 1991 MGNE group exhibit, U Mass Medical Center Gallery, Worcester, MA 1991 Selected Works,” Copley Society, Boston MA “1990 Holiday Spectrum, Gallery at C3TV, South Yarmouth MA, MGNE Group Exhibit, 1990-91 Visual Artist Union, Member Show Boston MA 1989 Arnold Art Store Gallery, Newport RI 12990 Five Women Printmakers, Falmouth Hospital Conference Room, , Falmouth MA 1991 Provincetown Art Association, Provincetown, MA 1990 Juried Exhibit, Midwest Museum of American Art, , Elkhart Indiana 1991 Art at the Interface, Nemasket Gallery, MFA Solo exhibit, Fairhaven, MA 1989 Boston Symphony Hall, Boston MA 1990 AWARDS Gibson Gallery, Potsdam NY, Third Place Award, 2016 Printmakers of Cape Cod, Cape Museum of fine Arts, “Best in Show” 2010 Lynn Arts Center, Art of the Unique Print 2009 Honorable Mention Award Duxbury Art Complex Museum, Ellison Center for the Arts, Spring 2003 Third place award South Shore Art Center, First Place in Graphics, 1991 Boston Printmakers annual Exhibit, invited artist 1991 Duxbury complex annual Art Show Second Place in Graphic 1992 Cape Cod Art Association, First Place in Graphics, 1992 Evelyn Lord Rumsey Bequest, Travel Scholarship, 1968 AFFILIATIONS Professor of Art, Cape Cod Community College, Coordinator of the Visual Arts, past director, Higgins Art Gallery, College Art Association, Past President the Monotype Guild of New England, Board member, Printmakers of Cape Cod
