Eleanor Sabin
​Contact
Email: sweleanor@gmail.com
IG:@ello_eleanor
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Bio
Born and raised in Westchester, NY, Sabin attended the Rhode Island
School of Design, graduating with a BFA in Sculpture in 2006. She
received her MFA in Sculpture from the Cranbrook Academy of Art
in 2016. Sabin has attended several residencies including the Wassaic
Project and the Arctic Circle Residency. Her work has been exhibited in
galleries nationwide including at the Evans School in association with
RedLine Contemporary Art in Denver, CO, Ortega Y Gasset in Brooklyn,
NY, and Five Points Gallery in Torrington, CT. She is Continuing Faculty
in Foundations at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, CO.​​
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Artist Statement
Like most people, I do not often experience the vastness and the sublime beauty of wilderness. Instead my daily life is filled with examples of the conflict between the manmade and the natural world. I am fascinated by these zones of tension where the fabricated and the organic converge. Some of these places are obvious; a construction site for a new house, a retired landfill covered in grass, the ruin of a colonial era foundation in the woods. Others are more subtle; a field filled with bare stumps of trees cut in the clearing of land for a new building, a stream diverted to irrigate a farmer’s field, or a cultivated copse of trees foreign to the indigenous flora. These areas illustrate our relationship to the history of the places where we live, and the ways in which our impact continues to be recorded on the landscape around us.
Though I find inspiration for my drawings in my interactions with the landscape, I am not concerned with creating portraits of the places I encounter. Instead, I choose to depict scenes in which nature has been purposefully arranged and controlled - whether by my digital manipulation of reference photos or the portrayal of landscapes physically altered by others. In my drawings I interpret the characteristics of the made and the grown as a way of understanding our impressions and expectations of the natural world.
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