Abstract artists open fall show at Tunnel City Coffee

Regardless of place, Sarah Sutro’s landscapes reflect a sense of serenity and smart use of color.

Sarah Sutro and Dorothea Osborn present their abstract paintings at Tunnel City Coffee in Williamstown this fall, featuring rich watercolors and imaginative takes on scientific themes. Sutro’s abstracted realist paintings recall memories of existence among peaceful landscapes, while Osborn’s macro-paintings delve into life at the cellular level, sharing the beauty of biology’s smallest divisions. The show runs from the beginning of October through the end of December 2018.

Influenced by artists Paul Klee, Georgia O’Keefe, and John Singer Sargent, Sutro finds inspiration in the outside world, oceanscapes and stratified sunsets, in evocative shades of every hue. “The darkness of winter trees against snow in the Adirondacks, rich ocean blues on the south coast of MA, and layers of color in the Painted Desert in Arizona” also became part of her painting style.

Dorothea Osborn’s art comes alive with abstract representations of single-celled organisms.

Osborn lives and breathes her art, using oils, drawing materials, fabric, papers, and found objects to create pieces that reflect on modern global issues and relationships between the spiritual and physical. “Even with large scale pieces, intimacy exists, which includes many layers,” says Osborn. “I want people to come away feeling a presence of the artist’s hand, an essence of time, and an ethereal manifestation.”

Tunnel City Coffee’s fall art show runs from October 1, 2018 through the end of December 2018. All work is available for purchase.