BIO:

Sarah Beadle is an interdisciplinary artist and educator. In her art practice, she proposes and develops one body of work at a time, untied to medium or developmental continuity. She alternates comfortably between temporary design, improbable objects, photographic query, research-based archive projects, architectural intervention, and collective event production. Her current creative and research interests include sidelined figures of cultural avant-gardes and domestic failures. Her ongoing projects address the politics of hospitality and the performance of care. Recuperation is a current driving theme.

With the collective Notch, she has often worked with models of everyday social exchange —eating encounters, cocktail parties, or social clubs—employing food and beverage as a site of knowledge production. As context for debate, events take place in liminal spaces of social exchange where reciprocity (or lack of it) is more pronounced: thresholds, back hallways, parking lots, kitchens, garages, and bus stops.

Her teaching experience ranges from high school darkroom and digital photography to college and MFA arts foundations, new genres, modern and contemporary art history, and photography. Institutions include Marlborough School, Oakwood School, University of California, Irvine, Syracuse University, Willamette University, and Minneapolis College of Art and Design. She is driven to discover the unique way each of her students learns and thrives creatively and academically, utilizing a variety of experiential teaching methodologies.

BACKGROUND:

Not surprisingly, Beadle’s creative life is informed by 10+ years in celebrity-chef driven restaurants. In addition to her career in education and the arts, Sarah has managed and been director of restaurant groups in Minneapolis, New York, and Los Angeles.

She has produced events and performed nationally at UAG at CSULB, Long Beach; LAXART, Los Angeles; Rochester Art Center, Rochester; Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha; MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles; Materials & Applications, Los Angeles; UAG at University of California, Irvine; University of California, Los Angeles; Carter and Citizen Gallery, Los Angeles; Queen’s Nails Projects, San Francisco; 18 Reasons, San Francisco; NTBA Gallery, Los Angeles. She has exhibited at LAXART, Los Angeles; UAG Gallery, University of California, Irvine; Wight Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles; and Denizen Design Gallery, Los Angeles.

CV on request

contact: sarah@sarahbeadle.com