Wren Woodward Sarrow (b.1969) Coventry, England. Sarrow migrated to the United States with her adopted family at an early age. Now a U.S. citizen, Sarrow lives with her husband and two sons in Los Angeles. The artist has been widely exhibited in the USA and abroad. She is recognized as a leader in the arts. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Truman State University in Missouri (1991) and a Master of Arts from Ohio State University (1994). Sarrow earned a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from the Pratt Institute’s graduate program in New York (2003). She is an active environmentalist. Though her oil portraits, watercolors, and Styrofoam artworks remain primary occupations, Sarrow complements these endeavors by curating contemporary art exhibitions and teaching painting and drawing. Wren and her husband Jonathan founded the artHYPE Foundation (artHYPE.net) to support talented, humanistic, underrepresented visual artists and community arts education (artHYPE.net).
Statement
“I pursue the following objectives: connection and transcendence. The systems I use are intuitive, experimental, statistical, scientific and pattern sensing. I have a tendency to create natural forms. My program is color, my style is realism. I portray human bonding, understanding, and equality without violence. I am influenced by the people’s history, philosophies of justice, and the history of art.” Wren Woodward Sarrow
My visual artworks consist of three styles, pop with outlines and flat color, recycled Styrofoam installations with lights and paint, and naturalistic oil portraits. I include portraits of people from different backgrounds, who represent my friends, family, and myself. I am an intuitive artist, and create new forms, often based on dreams. I’m interested in humanism and environmental progress. I like the subjectivity of portraits and the illustration and science of green technologies. I work with oils, acrylics, water-based enamel, canvas, recycled Styrofoam, and LED lights. I keep experimenting.
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