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Sarah Wieben

Sarah Wieben paints in oils on canvas or board.  Her landscapes capture the particular look and feel of Midwestern farm country.  To those of us who grew up here, we look at them and say, “That just feels like home.”

“It sometimes happens in life that events compel us to face the fact that we, none of us, have much control over our own lives as we like to think we do.  I see this too in the landscape when I paint it.  We have our hands on the land.  We attempt to harness its power, to use it, to change the face of it.  Forgetting all the while that it is our host, and we may someday wear out our welcome.  My current work reflects man’s constant, often futile struggle to control our lives and the natural world.”

Sarah’s original course of study was at the University of Minnesota in Soviet Studies.  She lived in Moscow in the late 1980’s and early 90s, working at the U.S. Embassy and teaching school.  It was in Moscow that she discovered art.  She returned to the U.S. determined to study art, and recently received her Bachelor of Fine Art degree from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

Sarah’s work has rapidly developed a following among collectors in the Twin Cities area, and we are confident that she will quickly garner national attention.

“All the arts lose virtue against the essential reality of creatures going about their business among the equally earnest elements of nature.”
- Robinson Jeffers