2024 Small Works Show artist Sarah Konrad

Sarah Konrad is a printmaker who lives and works in Laramie, Wyoming. She has explored multiple avocations, each one providing inspiration for those that follow. Spending her twenties guiding backcountry expeditions led to a fascination with ice and snow and graduate degrees involving glaciers and moraines. Time on snow led to Olympic competition in cross country skiing and biathlon. An unexpected conversation with a friendly artist led to a magical invitation, and she soon found herself carving and printing.

Printmaking on a small scale challenges her to abandon fine detail and instead capture the essence of the subject. An individual skier is known by the bend of an arm, the tilt of the head. An aspen tree grows knots in a particular pattern on the trunk and cannot be mistaken for a birch. Water appears blue but is filled with colorful reflections of the paddler. Carving these essential traits into linoleum or wood brings her a deeper recognition and understanding of the natural and athletic worlds.