Sarah Van Keuren majored in art history at Swarthmore College, studied printmaking at the Philadelphia College of Art, and has an MFA in Photography from the University of Delaware. Since 1980 she has taught non-silver printmaking processes at the University of the Arts where she is now an adjunct professor. She is author of A Non-Silver Manual, and has taught workshops across the U.S. and in Finland. She is represented by Schmidt-Dean Gallery in Philadelphia.
The narrative impulse is strong in my work. I’ve always been torn between writing and visual art. For me the fundamental mystery is the passage of time, the invisible medium we live within. I want to arrest an illuminated point in time and encapsulate it in glazes of gum arabic and sensitized watercolor pigment with a veil of cyanotype cast over it.
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