SARA
DAVID,
RINGLER
SARA
DAVID,
RINGLER
I
am a Professor of Art at Cape Cod Community College, teaching drawing,
printmaking, design, book arts and papermaking.
I spend my time teaching art and pursuing a professional career as a
painter and a printmaker. I am the mother of three adult children and have lived
on Cape Cod with my husband for over thirty-five years.
The
themes of my art have varied in response to my surroundings whether it is here
on the Cape or from my recent travels to Italy and Japan.
The work I have most recently created synthesizes Western concepts of
balance and proportion with Eastern sensibility to nature and harmony. I am
interested in rhythms, patterns, colors, and shapes of organic and man-made
forms. I like to combine and to
layer multiple images. Photographs
from my travels always offer inspiration to me and I incorporate these images
into my prints. Over the last several years I have traveled to Costa Rica,
Israel, France, Italy, Mexico, Thailand, Spain, Greece, Croatia and Japan. These
experiences and visual stimuli provide content and form for my work.
Along with foreign travel I spend a short time each year printmaking at
Hand Graphics Studio, the College at Santa Fe, or the American Indian Art
Institute in New Mexico.
In
my artwork I use a variety of printmaking, painting and mixed media techniques.
I create monotypes, or monoprints combining etchings, woodcuts,
photographs and Polaroid transfers. In
many of my pieces there is a use of text which is interwoven with the images.
I also work with encaustics (painting with hot wax) to create mixed media
pieces mounted on wooden panels. I seek to bring images together in a new way.
In
2008 I was an “Artist in Residence” at the Santa Reparata International
School of Art in Florence, Italy. The
artwork I created there represents an abstract response to the magnificent
architecture surrounding me. I seek
strong shapes and abstract forms for their strength and simplicity. As
part of my recent sabbatical I studied papermaking with a master papermaker on
the island of Shikoku in Japan. It
was a truly magnificent experience which has increased my understanding and
appreciation of the beauty of Japanese paper, and Japanese calligraphy. Over
the past year, I am still integrating the images and the techniques I have
discovered. The current work in this current exhibition melds western and
eastern form and content. I have
pulled in some earlier work explores
Art
is a way for me to reflect the world around me as I seek new experiences.
All my visual expressions reflect who I am as an artist and a teacher.
EXHIBITS:
Cape Museum of Art “Best in Show” Printmakers of Cape Cod 2010
East meets West solo exhibition, Higgins Art Gallery CCCC 2010
Falmouth Artist’s Center 2010, Guyer Barn 2010
SRISA,
Wellfleet
Library, Wellfleet, MA February,
2006
Salt Meadow Gallery, East Sandwich, MA
2005-06
Brewster
Ladies Library, Brewster Spring 2005
Cotuit Art Center, Cotuit Spring
2005
Women
Creating, Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Spring 2004
Faxon Center, Falmouth Hospital, Spring 2004
The
Star Gallery,
The
Southern
Vermont Art Center, Manchester Vermont, Spring 2003 Group Show
Duxbury
Art Association, The
Women
and Wax,
Teichman
Gallery, Brewster, Fall 2001, summer
2002, 2003
Duxbury
Art Association, The Ellison Center for the Arts, March, 2001
Open
Door Gallery,
Duxbury
Art Complex, 3rd Annual MGNE Exhibit, January-March, 2000
The
Gallery at C3TV, Different Strokes,
one person exhibit Dec.99-Jan. 2000
The
Wellfleet Collection, Wellfleet, MA
The
Giving Tree Art Gallery, East Sandwich, MA
The
Higgins Art Gallery, West Barnstable, MA 1998
The
Cape Cod Art Association,
Gallery
X, New Bedford, MA 1996
Cataumet Art Center, Cataumet MA 1997
Federal
Reserve Bank,
The
Gallery at C3TV,
Grey
Seal Gallery, Small Works,
Hydrangea
House Gallery, Small Works Juried Show,
U
Mass Medical Center Gallery, MGNE group exhibit,
Copley
Society,
Gallery
at C3TV, South Yarmouth MA Holiday Spectrum, MGNE Group Exhibit, 1990-91
Visual
Artist Union, Member Show Boston MA 1989
Arnold Art Store Gallery, Newport RI 12990
Falmouth
Hospital Conference Room, Five Women Printmakers,
Nemasket
Gallery, “Art at the Interface”, Solo exhibit, Fairhaven, MA 1989
Boston Symphony Hall, Boston MA 1990
AWARDS
Printmakers of Cape Cod, Cape Museum of fine Arts, “Best in Show” 2010
Lynn Arts Center, Art of the Unique Print 2009 Honorable Mention Award
Duxbury Art Complex Museum, Ellison Center for the Arts, Spring 2003 Third place award
Boston Printmakers annual Exhibit, invited artist 1991
Duxbury complex annual
Evelyn Lord Rumsey Bequest, Travel Scholarship, 1968
AFFILIATIONS
Professor of Art Cape Cod Community College, former Coordinator of the Visual Arts, former director, Higgins Art Gallery, College Art Association, Past President, the Monotype Guild of New England, member Southern Graphics Council , member, Printmakers of Cape Cod,