Our Artists
| Sarah Tew |
photography, mixed media, artist books
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| Sarah Tew grew up splitting time in Savannah, Georgia and Coastal Maine, and began seriously making images and crafting various things as a young misfit in the South. With a double major in religion studies and theatre direction, she graduated from Wesleyan University in 2001 with High Honors. After stint teaching in a Connecticut reform school and moving to New York for what would be a thoroughly depressing experience in the New York City Teaching Fellows, she put her portfolios online and began to freelance, eventually quitting teaching altogether in favor of full-time professional photography. Life has been fantastic ever since. She currently maintains a professional studio in Long Island City and continues to produce fine art photography, mixed media projects and artist books, while earning a living as a photographer of weddings, portraits and promotional imagery for musicians and other assignments.
Self-taught as an artist and photographer, her works alternate between the uplifting and the damning, and include projects rife with humor as well as work that draws on her darker perceptions of civilization's glaring dysfunctionalities. Documentary photography projects ground her in the here and now, celebrating the small triumphs of human spirit. Artist books are more focused political and social commentaries, interweaving drawings and text with scanned and manipulated imagery from dusty dictionaries and other old books she has been collecting since childhood. Ideas relating gender, environmental catastrophy, etc, are intended to be disseminated as widely as possible through the use of a cheap black and white copy machine, while originals may be in color, hardbound one-of-a-kinds. Mixed media works are often exercises in re-imagining everyday domestic matter and discarded objects in the spirit of trash art and DIY. Digital composites utilize photography and scanned appropriations which undergo manipulations for a desired effect.
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Click Below To Preview Sarah's Works
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| www.sarahtew.com | sarahtew@earthlink.net |
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Our Mission
It is our commitment to create an environment where professional artists can thrive in their work and their career in the arts, and to establish a place where gallerists, curators, collectors, writers, designers and architects, will find high-quality, fresh and progressive ideas in art. We achieve this by carefully selecting our artists, encouraging their input and supporting their interaction to ensure a better experience while at Juvenal Reis Studios. We continuously create and implement new projects to interact with the greater community of Long Island City through artist talks, workshops, Open Studios, group & solo shows, internships and visiting artist programs. |
Juvenal Reis Studios
43-01 22nd Street, 4th Floor
Long Island City, NY 11101
Phone: (718)-570-3663
E-mail: studios@juvenalreisstudios.com |
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