Art & Installations
MURKY Mirror, Galveston Art Center, Galveston, TX, 2023
Murky Mirror is two-person exhibition featuring collaborative work by Sarah Welch & James Beard. The two-room show draws on themes and world building from their comic, Outpost. The rooms include; looping audio, ceramics, found objects, and paintings.
OUTPOST, AUSTIN PUBLIC LIBRARY (CENTRAL), AUSTIN, TX (2021-2022)
The Outpost Reading Room is a collection of works created alongside the comic book, Holdouts III: Outpost. The installation includes backdrop paintings, drawings, and ceramics. The work and accompanying comic were on view for all library patrons.
Giveth & Taketh, Blue Star Contemporary, San Antonio, TX (2020)
The Giveth & Taketh Reading Room features artworks created during the production of Holdouts II Giveth & Taketh comic book. Image credit for this section: Francisco H. Cortés, courtesy of Blue Star Contemporary.
Crypt Iguana, Antenna, New Orleans, LA (2019)
The Crypt Iguana reading room replicates the setting of the eponymously named comic, dropping readers into the very cemetery where the narrative unfolds. The comic chronicles life in the historic Key West Cemetery in Key West, Florida from the perspective of one of the hundreds of nonnative Green Iguanas that inhabit the area. Image credit for this section: Tammy Mercure, courtesy of Antenna, New Orleans.
Holdouts, Temporary Havens, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX (2017)
The Holdouts reading room was created as part of Lawndale Art Center's Artist Studio Program Residents' exhibition, Temporary Havens. The exhibition includes work by Melinda Laszczynski, Randi Long, and Sarah Welch and was curated by Dean Daderko.
"The residents in Round 11 of Lawndale’s Artist Studio Program create new visions, sounds, and ideas that will change the way you experience the world around you. Through prints, drawings, hand-drawn animations, and a newly created comic book that explores the near-future in an ecologically disrupted Gulf Coast; an expansive, gestural installation of playfully perverse, glittery and gritty abstract paintings and sculptures enlivened with video; and household items and refuse wired together to produce explosive sound, as well as quieter collages and scores that synthesize the act of looking and listening, these artists invent worlds for us to enter, explore, inhabit. and enjoy."
