Sabra Moon Elliot
Sabra Moon Elliot
Sabra Moon Elliot (b. 1980, New York, NY) received a Bachelor of Science in film from New York University, and studied art history at Umbra Institute in Perugia, Italy. Growing up she explored different mediums of art such as painting and film and attended art classes at the National Academy of Design. In her work, she explores the distinctive spaces that make up the greater concept of “space”: outer space, inner space, compositional space, spaces we occupy, and spaces of the mind. Like optical studies or experiments, her works search for a balance between these spaces. Titled after planets and stars, this series of ceramics contain checkerboards of repeated triangles. As puzzle pieces of a larger pattern, they are cut out, rotated, stacked and reattached to one another. Each sculpture pulsates with a life of its own, as pattern and sequence are interrupted. Sabra Moon Elliot lives and works in Bridgehampton, NY.
Sabra Moon Elliot is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice engages with the relationships between, structure, color and larger cultural and social phenomenon.
Her geometric forms subvert the traditional linear structure of the grid, clashing against one another to create fragmented quilt like shapes. Working across sculpture, installation, paintings, and ceramics, she is inspired by the inherent structures, forms and colors found in nature as well as outsider American quilt making traditions that are left out of the canon. Her work attempts to bridge those gaps or at least ignite a dialogue around them by exploring notions of visibility. Always following her intuition, her process is driven by improvisation. At times she physically disrupts the rules she employs to make her work, deploying different strategies to interrupt the surface through various gestures from poking holes to deconstructing the material.
Body Full of Stars , New York
June 21 - July 28, 2023
Solo Exhibitions
2022
Enter Through the Desert,Tripoli Gallery, Wainscott, United States
2020
SPACE: Sabra Moon Elliot, Tripoli Gallery, Wainscott, United States
Group Exhibitions
2023
18th Annual Thanksgiving Collective: A Paleolithic Age, Tripoli Gallery, Wainscott, United States
2022
The Lightness of Being, Onna House, East Hamptons, New York
2021
17th Annual Thanksgiving Collective: Arrival, Tripoli Gallery, Wainscott, United States
2020
Are We There Yet?, Tripoli Gallery, Wainscott, United States
Showroom exhibition, Tripoli Gallery, Wainscott, United States
Six Hot and Glassy, Tripoli Gallery, Wainscott, United States
What Have We Done? Tripoli Gallery, Wainscott, United States
2019
The September Art Show, Tripoli Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY, United States
2018
WAVY, Tripoli Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY, United States
2015
Ubiquity, ILLE Arts, Amagansett, NY
2012
Inside Outsiders, the Fireplace Project, East Hampton, NY
2023
The (Remarkable) Lightness of Being: Yuko Nishikawa as part of a group exhibition at the Onna House, East Hampton, New York, James Salomon, Whitehot Magazine, New York
Celebrating The Leiber Collection’s Garden Of Friends Artists At Kathryn Markel Gallery, James Lane Post, Southampton, New York
2022
Collector Lisa Perry Hopes to Highlight Women Artists with New Space in East Hampton, Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews, New York
Step Inside a Zen Modernist Home That Brims with Art and Design, Alia Akkam, ADPRO, California
2021
Top 5 East End Art Exhibitions: New Year’s Weekend 2020, David Taylor, Dan’s papers, Long Island
2020
Tripoli Gallery Explores Space With Sabra Moon Elliot, the Southampton Press, South Hampton, New York
The Art Scene 08.20.20, Mark Segal, The East Hampton Star, New York
Visual Art Gets Real Again on the South Fork, Jennifer Landes, The East Hampton Star, New York
Warren Neidich on 'the Emancipatory Capacity of Art', Mark Segal, The East Hampton Star, New York
2012