Sarah Loomis is an interdisciplinary, visual artist working in small-scale paintings, drawings, mixed media shadow boxes, and installations to explore concepts of wounds and healing. Loomis works on wood or with fragile mediums, in hand-size form. Whether she is suturing torn photographs or assembling tiny pieces of wood and text into finger size bottles, she takes these miniature pieces and creates larger installations that fill entire spaces.

Through the depiction of trees and human form, Loomis’ work addresses issues of the delicacy of life and memory, injustice and devastation, and how these themes can exist both personally and collectively. Often with an environmental message about the massive devastation of landscapes or a commentary on societal issues, such as divorce or abuse, much of her work is deeply personal and based on her own life story.

Loomis has shown her work in various shows around the San Francisco Bay Area and the Pacific Northwest. Exhibitions include Telling Stories Through Art (Diablo Valley College, Concord, CA), Offerings: Works of Text and Image (Village Art Theater Gallery, Danville, CA), Artfully Reclaimed V (Marin Museum of Contemporary Art, Novato, CA), and Renewable Energy Juried Art Show (Clymer Museum of Art, Ellensburg, WA), in which she won the Award for Conceptual Merit. She also participates regularly at Annual Monster Drawing Rally, a fundraiser for the non-profit arts organization, Southern Exposure Gallery.

A longtime resident of San Francisco, Loomis received a BFA in Painting from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2004. She has also studied at Parson’s School of Design in Paris and the Pont-Aven School of Art in Brittany, France. Additionally, she has interned at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, CA.