Sarah Hinckley Solo Exhibition: New Paintings and Works on Paper
The most engaging aspect of Hinckley’s painting is the combination of her attraction for minimal or simplified imagery... realizing the shapes in her art, which are usually organic in nature, link her paintings with an esthetic of elegant simplicity. --Jonathan Goodman
Sarah Hinckley's childhood in Cape Cod with its salt marshes, beaches and ocean skies have long inspired her as an artist. After receiving her BFA from Tufts University and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Hinckley moved to New York City to complete her MFA studies at Columbia University. It was during this time that Hinckley gravitated to the color field paintings of Mark Rothko and Agnes Martin creating canvases with wide swathes of colors that refer to nature, but without its literal representations.
In spite of living and working in New York City, the natural beauty of Cape Cod continued to inform her paintings with subtle nods to landscape and botanical forms. Painting with oils on canvas, Hinckley permits the process to shine through in her work. Gravity pulls at the fluid paint leaving dripping edges or the casual rough skip of brushwork just skims the surface. Simple bands of color reference the complicated interplay of light and shadow, and the texture of time on changing forms, while reducing this natural symphony to a simple, elegant melody.
In 2016, after almost 30 years in New York City, Hinckley returned full time to Cape Cod. She alternates between larger paintings on canvas and smaller watercolors that often serve as studies for her oils. Sarah Hinckley’s artworks have been exhibited widely throughout the United States with exhibitions most recently at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, Mattatuck Museum, Calhoon Museum of Contemporary Art, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Littlejohn Contemporary, Chandra Cerrito Contemporary and Lanoue Gallery. Her work can be found in many corporate and private collections.
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Sarah Hinckley, Changes Are Shifting Outside 1, 2019
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Sarah Hinckley, i watch them bloom (10), 2020
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Sarah Hinckley, i watch them bloom (11), 2020
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Sarah Hinckley, i watch them bloom (8), 2020
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Sarah Hinckley, i watch them bloom (9), 2020
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Sarah Hinckley, memories going round and round (7), 2020
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Sarah Hinckley, a simple place (4), 2020
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Sarah Hinckley, and it whispers (1), 2019
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Sarah Hinckley, changing words (1), 2020
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Sarah Hinckley, Come Around Again 1, 2019
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Sarah Hinckley, edge of my dream (1), 2020
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Sarah Hinckley, edge of my dream (2), 2020
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Sarah Hinckley, i want to close my eyes and see you (1), 2020
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Sarah Hinckley, i want to close my eyes and see you (6), 2020
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Sarah Hinckley, i woke up to the morning sky first (1), 2020
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Sarah Hinckley, Language Is Leaving Me 1, 2019
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Sarah Hinckley, leaving behind (1), 2019
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Sarah Hinckley, many things on my mind (1), 2020
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Sarah Hinckley, memories going round and round (2), 2020
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Sarah Hinckley, memories going round and round (3), 2020
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Sarah Hinckley, memories going round and round (4), 2020
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Sarah Hinckley, memories going round and round (5), 2020
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Sarah Hinckley, memories going round and round (6), 2020
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Sarah Hinckley, Moon Is Bright Outside, 2020
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Sarah Hinckley, one morning when (1), 2020
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Sarah Hinckley, one morning when (2), 2020
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Sarah Hinckley, see enough and write it down (1), 2020
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Sarah Hinckley, some situation somewhere (1), 2020
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Sarah Hinckley, some situation somewhere (2), 2020
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Sarah Hinckley, spring promises (3), 2020
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Sarah Hinckley, Still As Grows 1, 2020
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Sarah Hinckley, Still As Grows 2, 2020
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Sarah Hinckley, the edge of my dream (1), 2020
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Sarah Hinckley, Unending Absence 1, 2019
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Sarah Hinckley, Wait For Me Here 2, 2020
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Sarah Hinckley, Wait For Me Here 3, 2020
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Sarah Hinckley, Wait For Me Here 4, 2020
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Sarah Hinckley, when the day arrives ahead of me (4), 2020
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Sarah Hinckley, Winds Here 1, 2019
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Sarah Hinckley, Wondering If 1, 2019
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Sarah Hinckley, Wondering If 2, 2019
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Sarah Hinckley, Yellow Moon 1, 2020
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Sarah Hinckley, Yellow Moon 2, 2020