Featuring: Santa Fe Artist, Sara McKenzie, Abstract, Mixed Media Artist.

Progression in Retrograde 56" X 68"

Sara McKenzie
Abstract, Mixed Media Artist
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Crimson Travels 24" X 12"

​Artist Statement: I fell in love with the landscape, light and culture of Santa Fe and moved here in 2014. My life’s path had meandered across the country, from the Midwest to both coasts and back again for college and graduate study in science. I eventually settled in the Northeast, where I spent more than three decades immersed in biotech, focused on scientific rigor, abstract theories, and data-driven discovery.
But even while working in that world, I was always creating, using my hands, my intuition, my sense of form. Over the years, I experimented with countless materials: fabric, fiber, paper, clay, paint, and glass, searching for balance between form and feeling, shape and silence, chaos and harmony.
The same curiosity and structure that drew me to science also drives my artmaking. I approach each piece as I would a research question, with a guiding idea, curiosity and a willingness to explore. The process is layered and nonlinear: apply, subtract, build, erase, reimagine. What begins as chaos gradually becomes coherence.
Ultimately, I find that the act of creating is less about inventing something new and more about discovering something essential, something that has been present all along, simply waiting to be seen.

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Garden Path 36" X 30"

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