November 5 - 28, 2026
First Thursday Art Walk - Thursday November 5th, 5-8pm
Artist Reception - Saturday November 7th, 4-6pm
Drawing from medical imagery and emerging technologies, these paintings present the operating theater as a site where the vulnerable human body, apparatus, machine, image and observer converge. They reflect on the strange reality unfolding as once-imagined technologies become increasingly intimate with our lives.
Spectacle of Being, oil on canvas, 60 × 72 in
About the artist
Sarah Elizabeth Barnett is a painter from North Texas, presently residing in Washington State. Sarah earned her BFA from the University of North Texas in 2018 and later attended the 2018 Summer Undergraduate Residency Program (SURP) at the New York Academy of Art. She received her MFA in 2022 from Washington State University, where she taught for a year as an adjunct instructor. Sarah has exhibited both regionally and nationally, including the 2021 AXA Art Prize Exhibition at NYAA, MANIFEST in Cincinnati, OH, the Women’s Museum in Fair Park, Dallas, TX, and the Chase Gallery in Spokane, WA. She is also a 2023 recipient of the Artist Trust Fellowship Award. A devoted oil painter with a background in figure drawing, Sarah’s paintings are highly representational and heavily distorted, with themes revolving around mortality, self-preservation, the human body, and technology.