Sarah Mikenis is a painter based in Los Angeles. She makes sculptural paintings, manipulating canvas to suggest an interaction between body and textile, bringing a Baroque sensibility to geometric abstraction. Her recent series of striped paintings consider the conflict between the surface of a composition and its form.
She received a solo exhibition, New Paintings (2019), and was featured in a two-artist booth at UNTITLED, ART Miami Beach (2018). Her paintings were also included in two group shows -- The Seven Year Itch (2019) and Transfigured. (2018) at Diane Rosenstein Gallery.
Sarah Mikenis received her MA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2009); was an artist-in-residence at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine (2015); then received her MFA from University of Oregon, Eugene (2016). Her paintings were included in New American Paintings #133 (Juried by Rita Gonzalez, LACMA), 2018.
She is from Portland, Oregon.