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Sarah Plimpton was born in New York City and divides her time between New York and France. She attended Smith College, Harvard Medical School and Pratt Institute in Manhattan. She works in several media; oil painting, printmaking and artists’ books and is also a poet. Two Galleries show her work on a regular basis - June Kelly in New York and Ute Barth in Zurich. She has been in many group shows including The Center for Book Arts, St Johns University, and Kate Ganz in New York. Her work is in such public collections as The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The New York Public Library, and the Metropolitan Museum of Ar
The creation of artists books link my poems and my art. The books alternate between woodcuts and aquatints, pochoir and silkscreen. I do not consciously try to illustrate the poems. I work seperately and then put the two together, matching at the last minute the illustrated page to the print; an abstract image with words. Shapes pushing against each other create a sense of compression or intrusion. The balance of these shapes with words is what interests me, the play of geometrical shapes against the poems which deal with light vision, color and painting or art itself. This balance of word and text is what interests me.
Sarah Plimpton's work appeared in the following exhibition(s) organized by The Center for Book Arts
NYC/Paris DIALOGUE Paris/New York Printmaking Project
Organized by Maddy Rosenberg, Independent Curator, New York City, and Devorah Boxer, Vice President, Le Trait, Paris.Black Palette
(2004) Letterpress with aquatint - book of poems (my own)
The Over and Over2004 Artist Member Juried Exhibition
(2002) Letterpress, aquatint on Arches
juried by Mindell Dubansky & Milan HughstonSomewhere Else2002 Artist Members' Juried Exhibition
(2003) Letterpress, woodcut, linocut
Edges Are StepsAnnual Artist Member Exhibition 1998
(2001) Box by Claudia Cohen; Fabriano tiepolo, aquatint, letterpress
juried by Virginia Bartow, Steve Clay, and Deirdre LawrenceForgetting to CountMysterious Worlds
Letterpress and aquatint, book contained in box.
the 1996 annual Artist Members ExhibitionEdgesInky Fingers
works by small & fine pressesSun in the Road, The
(1990) Author and artist: Sarah Plimpton. Aquatints and letterpress. Loose pages housed in a box.
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