SB Pohlman

I will be selling my wares - everything from artists books to blank journals to note cards - at Book Paper Scissors Book Arts Fair. Come check it out Saturday, November 22 from 10-4 at the Free Library of Philadelphia Central Branch.

My book “Everything and Everyone” has made it to the West Coast! It is included in the San Diego Book Arts National Juried Show September 20-October 31, 2008 (Reception, Saturday, September 20, 3:30 – 5:00 pm) at the UCSD, Geisel Library.

Over 60 artist’s books from around the country have been selected by Erika Torri, Executive Director of the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library in La Jolla, the juror for the Second National San Diego Book Arts Juried Show. A full color catalog of the exhibition is available for purchase. In addition to introducing the Second National Juried Show to the public, the opening reception will also serve as an informal inauguration of the Festival of the Book, and promises to be a highlight of the year for San Diego Book Arts.

For more information, or to purchase a catalog, visit San Diego Book Arts.

Mew Gallery presents You Will Always Have Your Self - more than 20 new pieces by Sarah Pohlman June 7 - July 18, 2008. Check out the opening reception Saturday, June 14th from 5 to 9 pm. Mew Gallery is located at 906 Christian Street in South Philadelphia.

This body of work distinctively documents my personal connections with the situations life presents me and my response to those situations through a visual mixed media-collage narrative. Outlining a year of upheaval, transformation, and unexpected outcomes, this work represents the inner thoughts and visual lexicon of my own mind in relation to things I could not initially control. As the work progresses there is a distinct change in mood to a position of empowerment and personal understanding, but also a definitive humbleness in regard to the unknown and the miniscule nature of my existence in the expanse of the universe. The work examines my self in microcosmic terms, within and related to macrocosmic context.