Sara Crisp
September 10 – October 29, 2026
About This Exhibition
This exhibition of new work is about flowers and my love of them.
I am drawn to their beauty, their complexity, and the way they seem to carry both fragility and strength at the same time. The more I learn about them, the more extraordinary they become. I am fascinated by that quiet revolution millions of years ago when flowers appeared and transformed the world from a largely green landscape into one filled with color, diversity, and possibility. In ways both visible and invisible, they changed everything, eventually making possible agriculture and much of the world we know and love today.
When I look at flowers, I see more than beauty. I see resilience, adaptation, and transformation. I see living reminders that change can happen gently and persistently, reshaping the world over time. Flowers ask very little of us, yet they offer so much – food, wonder, beauty, connection, and hope.
This work grows out of my admiration for them and my desire to spend time looking closely. Each piece is both a celebration and a meditation: on beauty, on survival, and on the remarkable power of transformation that flowers embody. Through them, I am reminded that even the quietest forces can change the world.
About the Artist
Sara Crisp is a mixed media and encaustic artist whose work explores the interconnectedness of the natural world and the cycles of transformation that shape both landscapes and human experience. Incorporating organic materials such as petals, bones, moss, and other found natural elements, she embeds these objects within layered, pattern-based paintings. These materials serve as both visual motifs and symbolic references to memory, impermanence, resilience, and renewal.
Her work ranges from intimate 6-by-6-inch panels to 3-by-3-foot compositions. Her election of natural materials is guided by both their inherent beauty and their metaphorical significance. Repeated patterns, layered textures, and embedded forms invite sustained looking, revealing subtle relationships between growth and decay, fragility and endurance, and the visible and the concealed. Themes of interconnectedness, transformation, and the enduring presence of the natural world remain central in her work.
Crisp attended the University of Southern Maine and the Portland School of Art (now Maine College of Art and Design) and finished her BFA at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence RI. Her work has been exhibited extensively throughout New England and New York in galleries, museums, and invitational exhibitions. She has participated in artist residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (twice), Ragdale in Lake Forest, Illinois, the International Center for Cultural Development in Kerala, India, and the Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, New York. Her paintings have been reviewed by publications in both New York and Maine. Crisp exhibits regularly throughout Maine and is represented by Denise Bibro Fine Art in New York City.
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