"'The days you work are the best days' GEORGIA O'KEEFEE"
Sarah Boyts Yoder is a painter based in Charlottesville, VA. She received an MFA in painting from James Madison University in 2006. Her work is held in numerous public and private collections and has been featured in a variety of publications and exhibitions throughout the US including Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art. She was awarded a professional fellowship in painting from Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and has twice been a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Boyts Yoder has also been awarded an artistic residency at 100W Corsicana in Corsicana, Texas, her home state, each year since 2017. In 2019 she had her first international exhibition in Sydney, Australia. Boyts Yoder is represented by Page Bond Gallery in Richmond, VA, by Show & Tell Art & Design in Charleston, SC, and by BluePrint Gallery in Dallas, TX.
Boyts Yoder uses cartoonish iconography, occasional text, and collage materials simultaneously, creating a complex and textured painterly surface. Situated squarely in the realm of painterly abstraction, her works demonstrate the creative process as both content and journey. Listening becomes as important as doing, the viewer is invited in as interpreter, and the resulting images are playfully open-ended.
A multitude of associations and experiences springs from these images. A trove of possible meanings explores the imagination’s capabilities, questions what painting can be, dreams of the unseen and illuminates the potential for human connection that exists in these questions.