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.

Group shows at Ceysson Gallery
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

EAST HAMPTON “InsideOutsiders” THE FIREPLACE PROJECT, Allese Thomsom, Artforum, New York