QUOTES ABOUT ARTIST'S WORK

“Sara is an outgoing and well traveled individual with knowledge of the fine arts, notably in Oriental art. In addition, she is an accomplished painter and scholar. While she does an occasional portrait, her specialty is interpretations of “space” .. that is, pictures dealing with the adventure of NASA.”

S. Raymond Kinstler
Portrait Artist

“The success of these works is due both to their laconic conception and to the painstaking techniques with which they were executed. At a time when most artists toying with the theme of space confine themselves to a new technological romanticism, Ms. Larkin experimented successfully in a kind of cosmic hyper-realism.”

S. Frederick Starr
Former President, Oberlin College

“In additional to her sound training in Western art, both in theory and in practice, she has a special aptitude in Chinese painting appreciation and its philosophy.”

Laurence C.S. Tam
Past Director, Hong Kong Museum of Art

“When I first saw your paintings, I was struck by their Zen quality, the impeccable clarity of all the facts and phenomena that also inspire me to itch, to pry and probe the details of our tenure on Earth.”

Joseph S. Lewis
Fashion MODA Gallery

“Sara Larkin is an important artist. I believe there is no possibility for a perspective on our times unless they are interpreted creatively by the artists among us. I believe she has completed a considerable body of work on the creative interpretation of our endeavors in space, what it can mean for us to look upon ourselves at such distances. Now, she has turned to the personal dimensions of the devastation wrought upon others by those who seek power. In this latest of her works, as always, the human spirit finds its won capacity to blossom.”

J.H. Beal, Astrophysicist
St. Johns College, Annapolis

“This retrospective show by Sara Larkin is an unusual exhibition which demonstrates a multiplicity of talent and a range of aesthetic and artistic elements which takes in the entire sphere of ones spirit. She proceeds form the global perspectives of her spacescapes to intimate human expressions of her expressionist work and of her ladies. Sara taps an intense emotional visual. Her Ladies evoke an intimate expression of strength in solitude contrasting the inner world with the outer world.”

Will Barnet
American Artist

Her largest collector describes Sara as - “ Ahead of the learning curve.”

Tom Clancy, Author

“It was immediately in time with Sara’s painting, “Earth Out The Shuttle Window.” Anywhere, I would have recognized that it was a visual image as seen from floating inside the space shuttle. The colors of earth are what I remember, particularly the white clouds and the ocean blue.”

Admiral Richard H. Truly
Shuttle Astronaut
NASA Administrator

“Sara Larkin has captured the breath taking views of space. As a veteran of four missions in space, I love to see her impressions of man’s greatest adventure.”

General Thomas P. Stafford
Gemini VI Astronaut
Commander Gemini IX
Apollo X Commander for First Lunar Module Flight to the Moon
Commander Apollo-Soyuz

“Congratulations on what looks like an exciting exhibit! Good luck and good painting. It was wonderful seeing you both here and in Palm Springs”

Gene Roddenberry
Author & Film Producer

The leading authority on Mary Cassatt, Adelyn Breeskin, after reviewing Sara’s Spacescapes described them -- “Elegant and important.”

Adelyn Dohme Breeskin
retired Director of Baltimore Museum of Art;
Curator of Contemporary Art,
National Collection of Fine Arts Washington, DC

“I congratulate you on your work”

Past Director, National Gallery of Art
J. Carter Brown

“Sara Larkin, a suspect work of art herself.”

Milton Esterow
Publisher of Art News

“Your work seems to be carrying you along a much less traditional -- but no less useful -- path, and the great lessons of your oriental years may well have been not to fight this but just relax and go.”

Stephen E. Weil
Former Deputy Director, Hirshhorn Museum
and Sculpture Garden