Sarah Hobbs (born 1970) is an artist. Hobbs is from Lynchburg, Virginia. She lives and works in Atlanta.
Table of Contents
- 1 Career
- 1.1 Texas Made
- 1.2 Black Bayou
- 1.3 Fallin’
- 1.4 Love Is Where The Heart Is: A journey of romance - in verse
- 1.5 Fun-Schooling With Pixel Art - A Math, Craft & History Activity Book: Full Color! 15 Projects - Minecraft, Mosaics, Beadwork, Cross Stitch, Gelatin ... Curriculum Workbook for Gamers)
- 1.6 Point Of No Return (feat. Sam Riggs)
- 1.7 Back Porch Country
- 1.8 Sonnets Throughout A Year
- 1.9 Fun-Schooling Math Mysteries - Add, Subtract, Multiply, Divide: Ages 6-10 ~ Create Your Own Number Stories & Master Your Math Facts! (Fun-Schooling Math with Thinking Tree Books) (Volume 1)
- 1.10 Like I Love You
Career
Hobbs builds psychological, room-scale nevertheless lives which engage “apprehension, frustration, confusion, indecision—emotions that bother the soul” and photographs them as large format color images. Her photos, including those in “Small Problems in Living” (1999-2004), are taken upon a 4×5 camera. These scenes are set happening in Hobb’s house or the homes of close friends; they are made to be dreamlike. Across her career, her photographs and installations are about “perfectionism and its cousins, obsessiveness and overcompensation.” Hobbs’ interest in human mania has spilled out from just photographs of staged scenes and into gallery installations, which recommend craft tipping over into mania and obsession. Broadly, her show also engages the psycho-social, alienation, irrational fears, little neurosis, and common bonds higher than shared problems.
In 2011 Hobbs conventional an Artadia Award. In 2003 she was a finalist for the Forward Arts Foundation Emerging Artist Award. Her accomplishment has been exhibited in notable public collections including at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas. Her con has been traveling past 1998.
In 2011, her book Small Problems in Living was published; the record compiles three photographic series. In this project, “apparently up to date and harmless scenes become threatening or overwhelming,” like exaggeration that a aware scene could be “perceived by someone misfortune from paranoia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, phobias or neurosis.” Her sham is featured in The Focal Press Companion to the Constructed Image in Contemporary Photography (2019) where it is reviewed as “provoking contemplation, inviting to look spaces differently,” and her contemporaries in fabricated, place-based constructed photography are listed as Noémie Goudal and Oh Soon-Hwa.Vitamin PH (2006), another CD featuring Hobbs’ photographs, likens her images to Woody Allen’s post-modern comic manifesto, “I can’t announce anger. I just amass a tumor instead.”
Last update 2021-08-06