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PAINTING AT NIGHT Sara Farrell Okamura, "Rage"
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Sara Farrell Okamura, "Rage"

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$3000. Oil on Canvas, 36” x 34”, 2020.

Price does not include shipping. Contact info@collarworks.org for a shipping estimate.

Artist statement

The assumption that you cannot make artwork in a domestic setting is not only gender vilifying, and class humiliating but makes the assumption that artwork is only for the arena or playground of those who can afford a hip atelier and are free of the responsibility of a “day job”. This concept falls under all the other stultifying stereotypes of women as caregivers. Though it is true that women make up the majority of nurses, teachers, the appointed ones who will forsake careers and passions to care for family members in need, very often it was only because those were the positions available to women. Women artists’ creativity is not limited merely to the finished work, but in the miraculous methods they engender to keep making art. As the mother of an adult son the genesis of my paintings hinge on the future, primarily the stigmata of the climate crisis.

Artist bio

Sara Farrell Okamura started a career in journalism, but soon moved to art graduating from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts. She has been a working artist with over 30 years of studio practice and exhibitions. These include shows nationally and internationally. She has been the recipient of grants including Illinois Arts Council, Assets for Artists (MASS MoCA) and twice, A.R.T Fund sponsored by Berkshire Taconic Foundation. Upcoming this year her work will be seen at Bernay Fine Arts, Great Barrington MA and in July at Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatham NY. In addition to exhibitions she was co-director of 1935 Gallery in Chicago, and was founding executive director of Northern Berkshire Creative Arts, a community based arts center on the campus of MASS MoCA. She has written art reviews found in Greylock Glass, Medium, Hyperallergic and Art Spiel.


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$3000. Oil on Canvas, 36” x 34”, 2020.

Price does not include shipping. Contact info@collarworks.org for a shipping estimate.

Artist statement

The assumption that you cannot make artwork in a domestic setting is not only gender vilifying, and class humiliating but makes the assumption that artwork is only for the arena or playground of those who can afford a hip atelier and are free of the responsibility of a “day job”. This concept falls under all the other stultifying stereotypes of women as caregivers. Though it is true that women make up the majority of nurses, teachers, the appointed ones who will forsake careers and passions to care for family members in need, very often it was only because those were the positions available to women. Women artists’ creativity is not limited merely to the finished work, but in the miraculous methods they engender to keep making art. As the mother of an adult son the genesis of my paintings hinge on the future, primarily the stigmata of the climate crisis.

Artist bio

Sara Farrell Okamura started a career in journalism, but soon moved to art graduating from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts. She has been a working artist with over 30 years of studio practice and exhibitions. These include shows nationally and internationally. She has been the recipient of grants including Illinois Arts Council, Assets for Artists (MASS MoCA) and twice, A.R.T Fund sponsored by Berkshire Taconic Foundation. Upcoming this year her work will be seen at Bernay Fine Arts, Great Barrington MA and in July at Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatham NY. In addition to exhibitions she was co-director of 1935 Gallery in Chicago, and was founding executive director of Northern Berkshire Creative Arts, a community based arts center on the campus of MASS MoCA. She has written art reviews found in Greylock Glass, Medium, Hyperallergic and Art Spiel.


$3000. Oil on Canvas, 36” x 34”, 2020.

Price does not include shipping. Contact info@collarworks.org for a shipping estimate.

Artist statement

The assumption that you cannot make artwork in a domestic setting is not only gender vilifying, and class humiliating but makes the assumption that artwork is only for the arena or playground of those who can afford a hip atelier and are free of the responsibility of a “day job”. This concept falls under all the other stultifying stereotypes of women as caregivers. Though it is true that women make up the majority of nurses, teachers, the appointed ones who will forsake careers and passions to care for family members in need, very often it was only because those were the positions available to women. Women artists’ creativity is not limited merely to the finished work, but in the miraculous methods they engender to keep making art. As the mother of an adult son the genesis of my paintings hinge on the future, primarily the stigmata of the climate crisis.

Artist bio

Sara Farrell Okamura started a career in journalism, but soon moved to art graduating from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts. She has been a working artist with over 30 years of studio practice and exhibitions. These include shows nationally and internationally. She has been the recipient of grants including Illinois Arts Council, Assets for Artists (MASS MoCA) and twice, A.R.T Fund sponsored by Berkshire Taconic Foundation. Upcoming this year her work will be seen at Bernay Fine Arts, Great Barrington MA and in July at Joyce Goldstein Gallery, Chatham NY. In addition to exhibitions she was co-director of 1935 Gallery in Chicago, and was founding executive director of Northern Berkshire Creative Arts, a community based arts center on the campus of MASS MoCA. She has written art reviews found in Greylock Glass, Medium, Hyperallergic and Art Spiel.


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