NEW YORK, NY.- Littlejohn Contemporary announces a solo exhibition of new paintings by Sarah Hinckley: Looking For Some Grace. The Gallery is located at 547 West 27th Street, 2nd FL, New York, NY 10001 between 10th and 11th Avenues in Chelsea and is open Tuesday through Saturday 11-6. The show is up from February 8th through March 11th.

Sarah Hinckley’s ethereal abstract paintings and watercolors have nuanced references to landscape and botanical motifs. Her paintings tend towards the muted and minimal, though the newer paintings have a bolder palette and lush surface, allowing the artist’s process to reveal itself through brushwork and other painterly accidents. The overall presence of Hinckley's work is gentle and meditative, a manifestation of her longtime involvement with yogic practice and a keen observation of the world around her.

Hinckley’s paintings and watercolors stem primarily from her encounters with her surroundings – triggered by a color, a shape, an impression, an emotion, or a memory. Her childhood was spent on Cape Cod where she grew up surrounded by expansive sea and sky awash with light. These memories remain the core of her inspiration and the source that imbues her paintings with a distinctive quality of light. She cites other artistic influences such as Mark Rothko, Agnes Martin, 60's formalist color field painting and the method of Monet's late paintings.

In her studio Hinckley spends time switching between the mediums of oil painting and watercolor allowing time for reflection and drying. The artist approaches painting intuitively and most of the works take a few months to complete while others remain in conversation for a year or longer.

"painting is how i know what i am thinking, feeling and where i am going. how i filter all that is in the world around me. i hope the final object becomes something beautiful for the viewer to be inspired by... and yet a bit challenging" - Sarah Hinckley

Sarah Hinckley received her BFA from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and her MFA from Columbia University in New York City. Hinckley’s works have been exhibited widely throughout the United States and are in numerous corporate and private collections.