CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 1/30/2024

A comprehensive new monograph on Sarah Crowner

We’ve always been fans of the Brooklyn-based painter, sculptor and ceramicist Sarah Crowner. Turns out, she’s also a very interesting designer of theater sets and architectural environments—as seen in Turner new release, Sarah Crowner: Serpentear. Take, for example, Ceiling (Stretched Pentagons), Crowner’s 2022 collaboration with renowned Mexico City-based architecture firm Tatiana Bilbao Estudio, installed at Valhalla, a private home in Punta Mita, Mexico. “In Valhalla the floor, Crowner’s tiled ceiling and the brilliant blue horizon of the oceanfront surroundings blur and merge into a singular sensation as the perception of this work changes in the shifting light throughout the day,” Ana Elena Mallet writes. “Patterns and repetitions create an environment that frames the entrance to the house, as well as the surrounding landscape. The interior and the exterior come together to become a painting, and the viewer becomes both participant and observer.” Additional texts by Nikki Columbus, Quinn Latimer, Diego Matos and Ingrid Schaffner accompany gorgeous photographs of Crowner’s paintings in gallery and domestic settings, her tileworks, theater sets, installations and more.