Sarah Horvat is a published freelance illustrator and award-winning artist based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She embraces a Renaissance-man approach reflected among her diverse interests and deeply rooted passions. Her portfolio ranges from realistic to abstract, literal to allegorical, with lyrical lines, organic forms and visual textures. Included are oil and watercolor paintings, stone sculpture, pastel and oil pastel, charcoal, mixed media and photography, with a recent focus on drawing, watercolor, ink, printmaking and live figure sketches.
Her illustrations have been featured in magazines, youth and adult books, and various media for the Northwestern Publishing House, WELS Synod publications, and arts organizations. Sarah's fine art has been in juried exhibitions at galleries, museums, colleges, and businesses. She has participated in virtual exhibitions, Twitter.com-based and gallery-hosted art exchanges, ArtWalkTV, as well as traveling exhibitions and art community projects including Art House Gallery and the Brooklyn Art Library, New York.
Sarah was awarded the 1993 WELS Art Guild Golden Palette Award, selected for the prestigious Lakefront Festival of Art college exhibit and chosen as the Fine Arts Representative groundbreaker for the Wisconsin Lutheran College Center for the Arts (1995). She is recognized in various "Who's Who" publications (c. 1988-2002) for America's high schools, colleges and art museums, as well as for art and illustration 2009-2010, and again recently nominated.
In 2008, Sarah more seriously focused on her art when her entire "Eve Series" was selected for the New York exhibition, Paradise Lost, that celebrated poet John Milton's 400th birthday at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn. The drawings "Eve Regrets," "Tree of Life," and "Tree of Knowledge" were among select works of 60 international artists. Paradise Lost has received worldwide recognition. A "Tree of Life" giclée is in the permanent collection of the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center. The Paradise Lost exhibition has and continues receiving worldwide recognition.
A member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI/SCBWI-WI), Sarah is actively working with writers, currently creating an adult book cover, and as guest artist has taught specialized grade school art classes. She was a featured premiere showcase in Milwaukee ArtBeat, Milwaukee's Unique Arts Showcase Series, that included an interview and exhibition (2009). Sarah is a member of the prestigious National Association of Women Artists, Inc.,(N.A.W.A.), New York City, where she often exhibits, and the Milwaukee ArtBeat Board's Community and Artist Liaison. Sarah is a Featured Artist of the Month and SCOPE Miami 2010 competition winner (Digital Exhibition) via MyArtSpace.com, Miami, Florida. She will have a three-month solo exhibition at Latitude luxury apartments on Milwaukee's East Side beginning January 2011.
The Eve Series
The essence of the Biblical Eve has been a fervent focus for Sarah Horvat's current body of work. Her award-winning drawings are explorations in specific pencil leads, illustrating timeless reflections through a glass darkly, both cerebral allusions of Eve as ancestor and personal ruminations relating to Eve in contemporary life.
The rippling cause and effect, expulsion and reproach, remorse and reparations, affect the reprisal roles of woman and humankind throughout time, as well as the spiritual and existing physical paradise lost. She approaches piquant queries of ‘Who was Eve? Why did she do it? What was she thinking?,' then forges an intricate journey wrought with biblical foreshadowing, self-application, and metaphorical consummation: hope. Her symbolic and seemingly fragile Eves are mired, yet, if one searches, an ethereal open window awaits.
The first three works of Horvat's Eve Series--the entire series at that time--were selected for the Paradise Lost exhibition, the world's largest celebration of John Milton's 400th birthday at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center in Brooklyn, New York. Her drawings "Eve Regrets," "Tree of Life," and "Tree of Knowledge" were among select works of 60 international artists. The exhibition received worldwide recognition. Her giclée of "Tree of Life" from The Eve Series is in the permanent collection of the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center.
A limited series of artist proof giclées for the first three drawings of The Eve Series are available for purchase at the David Barnett Gallery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Sarah Horvat's "Eve Series"
was part of the New York exhibit
Paradise Lost
September 27 - November 2, 2008
The largest celebration of
John Milton's 400th birthday
at the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center
and recognized worldwide
View select Paradise Lost press, links
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