Installation at Christophstollen, 1995:
Installation view inside cistern;
diameter: 23’ depth: 17’
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Office: KDM 192
Office hours: Not teaching Sp 2009
Posted on instructor’s office door. Please use appointment sheet on office door to schedule an appointment during office hours.
Phone:(916) 278-6316
Email: sflohr@csus.edu

www.sarahflohr.com

Furlough Schedule:
August 28
September 11 and 23
October 16 (campus closed) and 23
November 23, 24 and 25
December 18

Sarah Flohr teaches Drawing and Painting.

Sarah is a painter whose work incorporates elements of installation and sculpture. She received a B.F.A. from the Art Institute of Chicago and later went on to study painting at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany. She remained in Düsseldorf for 5 years where she shared a studio with other painters and was active in the art community. It was there that she began painting on lead and tin pieces molded into irregular shapes. In 1990, Flohr was an Artist in Residence at the Ecole de Beaux-Arts de Nîmes, France.

Flohr returned to the States in 1991 to pursue a master’s degree in painting at Yale University. She received the M.F.A. in 1993 with the honor of the Winsor Newton Prize for Excellence in Painting. That fall Flohr was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and an Annette Kade Fellowship to study Romanesque architecture in the South of France. From her home in Marseille, she visited numerous Romanesque sites, keeping track of her travels through drawings, photos, and what she calls a “library of shapes”. The library is an informal look into ornament and an exploration of shape as individual and aggregate form.

In 1994 she received a grant from the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany. There Flohr worked with a diverse group of international artists and had several exhibitions. Her work was shown at the Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, and in 2 solo-exhibitions, one which was a collaboration with the Russian artist and composer Vladimir Tarasov.

In 1995, Flohr returned once again to the United States, this time as a faculty member in the School of Art at Yale University. She taught painting and drawing, while pursuing her work as an artist. In 1998 she was invited to exhibit at the international art festival Kykart in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Flohr’s work shows her interest in place - both physical and metaphoric - as rich terrain for reflection and as an emblem of meaning and recollection.