Sarah Applebaum
510.318.0158
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thesoftest@sarahapplebaum.com

Sarah Moli Newton Applebaum was born in 1975 at home in Berkeley, California. Primarily raised in Oakland, Sarah now lives in San Francisco. She received a B.A. in Political Science from the University of California at Santa Cruz.

Sarah is currently creating soft and colorful environments/costumery from masses of crocheted bric-a-brac culled from thrift stores. Her work has been shown at local venues such as the Oakland Museum, Pro Arts, The Lab and is currently on view in the flat files at Triple Base Gallery in San Francisco. “Los Caminos Residency Hotel Room 1102", a collaborative project with Las Otras art collective, is featured in El Corazon de la Muerte: Altars and Offerings for Day of the Dead, published in 2005 by Heyday Books for the Oakland Museum. Upcoming projects include collaborations with dancer/choreographer Sarahluella Baker, photographer Erin Kunkel and The Curiosity Guild.

Sarah’s influences include Harrell Fletcher, Junko Chodos, Keegan McHargue, the primeval woods and grasslands of the East Bay Regional Park District, all the “rags and feather from salvation army counter”, the flowers, the garbage, the city and all her loved ones.