Eleanor Sabin has an MFA degree from Cranbrook Academy of Fine Arts and a BFA degree from Rhode Island School of Design. She joined CSU in 2017 as our Drawing Artist-in-Residence and has taught various levels of Drawing courses since then. As part of her 3-year appointment at CSU, she will be giving a public artist talk at 4pm, Monday, March 11th, in room F101 – Visual Arts Building, in conjunction with her show “Crisis Complex” in the Glass Box Gallery (opened March 10 – March 30, 2019).
In her artistic practice, Eleanor Sabin is interested in places where the manmade and natural worlds converge. These places embody the history of our environment, and the ways in which our impact continues to be recorded on the landscape around us. Sabin doesn’t attempt to replicate an existing landscape, but rather depicts scenes in which nature has been deliberately arranged and controlled. Sabin writes: “In my drawings I interpret the characteristics of the made and the grown as a way of understanding our impressions and expectations of the natural world.”
Eleanor Sabin has exhibited nationally, with a solo exhibition at Hunter Gallery, St. George School, Newport, RI. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Wassaic Project – Wassaic, NY (2017); Bristol Museum of Art – Bristol, RI; Cranbrook Museum of Art – Bloomfield Hills, MI; CAVE Gallery, Detroit, MI; Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI; Providence Art Club, Providence, RI; Grimshaw- Gudewicz Gallery, Fall River, MA; Pawtucket Arts Collaborative, Pawtucket, RI; DeBlois Gallery, Newport, RI; Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI; Warwick Museum of Art, Warwick, RI; Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA. In 2016 Sabin was selected for a residency at Wassaic Artist Residency, Wassaic, NY. She has received numerous scholarships and awards, including The League Residency at Vyt, fully funded by the Ruth Katzman Scholarship- Orangeburg, NY 2015; Merit Award, Sculpture Department – Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield hills, MI; 2014 Rhode Island State Council for the Arts Drawing Grant – RISCA, Providence, RI.