My paintings are worlds made of dark humor, delicacy, subtle horror, and vulnerability. Paradoxes within both the natural and human world are my main concern: softness is counterbalanced with aggression, comfort with vulnerability, banal with the uncanny, and masculine with feminine. I often reduce the figure down to only hands, feet, and limbs; it is unclear if they are attached to anyone at all. Beings within my work both caress and destroy one another, and the paintings border on a razor-thin edge between sweet and sinister.
 
Sarah Slappey lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received a BFA from Wake Forest University in 2006 and completed her MFA from Hunter College in 2016. She has exhibited in both solo and group shows in New York, Italy, London, and Denmark. Her work has appeared in such publications as ArtMaze Magazine, Social Life, Long Island Pulse, and Hamptons Art Hub.
 
 
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