Sarah Lutz (American, b. 1967) is a New York-based artist who splits her time between the Hudson Valley, NY and Truro, MA. With a studio practice spanning more than 40 years, Lutz is primarily a painter and has also collaborated regularly over the past 20 years with master printer Marina Ancona of 10 Grand Press, Brooklyn, NY.
Lutz spent much of her childhood in Antigua, Guatemala and in recent years has had the opportunity to return regularly. Lutz has fostered a new collaborative relationship with the weaving factory of Mitchell Denburg Collection/JD Textiles and is translating her abstract paintings and prints into large scale hand-dyed woven carpets.
Lutz’s work is in numerous private and public collections, and she exhibits her paintings and monotypes regularly.
"Although firmly rooted in abstraction, my work makes clear references to the natural world. I spend as much time as I am able near the water: listening, observing, and collecting. My vocabulary of images has been developing over many years and is deeply personal. These forms are the characters in my story, the narrative within each painting, and the evolving arch of my studio practice. I celebrate the pure physicality of my materials while also exploring their alchemistic and illusory potential. Subject matter and process are seamlessly interwoven; the evolution of each painting, both technically and conceptually, is the subject. I want my work to be beautiful, but at the same time unsettling; serious, but with a comedic aspect. In each painting I strive to create a world of light and movement, space, and joy, that feels at once familiar while hinting at something ethereal and unknown." —Sarah Lutz
EDUCATION
1992 M.F.A. The American University, Washington, D.C.
1989 B.S. Studio Art/Art History Minor, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
EXHIBITIONS (SOLO AND SELECTED)
2023 Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary, Palm Beach, FL (Schoolhouse Gallery)
2022 Shoots & Stars, Susan Eley Fine Art, Hudson, NY
Strand, Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA (solo)
String Theory, The Mercy Gallery, Windsor, CT (solo)
Bubble Theory, John Molloy Gallery, New York, NY
Palm Beach Modern+Contemporary, Palm Beach, FL (SHG)
2021 Fine Print Fair, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (10 Grand Press)
Katharine Dufault & Sarah Lutz, Susan Eley Fine Art, Hudson, NY
Abacus, Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA (solo)
Sunrise/Sunset, Albany International Airport, Albany, NY
2020 Let the Good Times Roll, ArtPort, Kingston, NY
Fireball Season, Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA (solo)
The Enabling Act: A Call to Arms, M. David & Co., Brooklyn, NY
2019 Whale Fall, Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA (solo)
Among Friends/Entre Amigos, The Clemente, New York, NY
2018 E/AB Fair, New York, NY (10 Grand Press)
Sanctum, Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA (solo)
Against Forgetting II, Gaa Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
2017 E/AB Fair, New York, NY (10 Grand Press)
Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Baltimore Contemporary Print Fair, Baltimore, MD (10 Grand Press)
Sarah Lutz & Patricia Spergel: A Conversation Afloat, The Painting Center, New York, NY
2016 Sarah Lutz and Ilene Sunshine, 490 Atlantic Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
E/AB Fair, New York, NY (10 Grand Press)
Drishti: A Concentrated Gaze, New York, NY
Recent Gifts to the Collection: Part II, PAAM, Provincetown, MA
2015 Festoon, Open Window Project, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, NY (solo)
Main Window with Sarah Lutz, 1 Main Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY (solo)
Tales From the Garden and Other Mythologies, The Mercy Gallery, Windsor, CT (solo)
2014 Domino: New and Selected Works, Brick Walk Fine Art, W. Hartford, CT (solo)
The Cloud in the Paper, Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2013 INK Miami Art Fair, Dolan/Maxwell Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
#DREAMSHOW, Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA
WIT, The Painting Center, New York, NY
2012 Interplay with Beth Dary, Miranda Arts project Space, Port Chester, NY
ArtStrand, Provincetown, MA
2011 Abstracted, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Rotation, Lohin-Geduld Gallery, New York, NY
2010 Recent Work, Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2009 DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA (with Peik Larsen and Peter Hutchinson)
Intricacies, Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Drawing Atlas, Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York, NY
DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA (with Peik Larsen and Kahn/Selesnick)
2007 Laura Battle & Sarah Lutz, Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York, NY
Hefland, Kopelowitz, Lutz, Miranda Fine Arts, Port Chester, NY
2006 DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA (with Peik Larsen and Peter Hutchinson)
2005 All Terrain-Abstract Landscapes, RKL Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
Congeries: New Work, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA (solo)
Congeries, Brick Walk Books & Fine Art, W. Hartford, CT (solo)
2004 Elemental, Miranda Fine Arts, Port Chester, NY
Shapes: Sarah Lutz and Anne Russinof, The Pheonix Gallery, Burlington, VT
Suspended Gravities, Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY (solo)
2003 The Morula Series, The Painting Center, New York, NY (solo)
Decade: DNA Celebrates Ten Years, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2002 DNA @ DNA: Genetic Imprints, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2001 Sarah Lutz & Colleen Randall, The Painting Center, New York, NY
1996 Fin de Sie’cle: Painting at the End of a Century, Nicholas Davies & Co. New York, NY
An Idea of Order, The Painting Center, New York, NY
1995 New Paintings, 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
The Newbury Hotel, Boston, MA
New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
The Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY
AWARDS
2021 New Roots Foundation Residency, La Nueva Fábrica, Antigua, Guatemala, C.A.
2012 Miranda Arts Project Space Residency, Port Chester, NY
1996 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
1994 Junior Teaching Fellow in Residence, Dartmouth College, Hanover, HN
