Sarah Boyts Yoder is a mixed media painter living and working in Charleston, SC. Sarah uses materials ranging from pencil, spray paint, and house paint to pages from vintage coloring books to create her multilayered, mixed media paintings. A love of color, collage, design and typography drive the search for a balance between sophistication and simplicity, and cartoon-like expression and eloquent abstraction. She finds inspiration high and low, drawing from Abstract Expressionist and Pop Art theory and the children’s books and cartoons she experiences with her small children Sofia and Zeke.
She received an MFA in painting from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia in 2006 and her BFA in painting from Eastern New Mexico University. Since moving to Charleston in 2007, Sarah has participated in as many as 20 local and national juried group exhibitions and 6 solo shows. Her work is part of numerous private collections across the country, was featured during the Spoleto Festival in Charleston in 2009, was included in Coastal Living Magazine in 2009 and, most recently, the spring 2011 issue of Studio Visit Magazine.
She received an MFA in painting from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia in 2006 and her BFA in painting from Eastern New Mexico University. Since moving to Charleston in 2007, Sarah has participated in as many as 20 local and national juried group exhibitions and 6 solo shows. Her work is part of numerous private collections across the country, was featured during the Spoleto Festival in Charleston in 2009, was included in Coastal Living Magazine in 2009 and, most recently, the spring 2011 issue of Studio Visit Magazine.
