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Robin Jack Sarner is a Los Angeles–based abstract artist working in large-scale mixed media painting and works on paper. Her practice investigates how experience is carried over time, how unresolved histories remain present without defining identity. Gesture and material function as structural elements rather than expressive release, allowing surfaces to hold intensity through accumulation, compression, and restraint.
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Her process is guided by containment, repair, and partial visibility. Marks are layered and allowed to persist, while stitching, reinforcement, and structural interventions appear where materials show strain. Earlier gestures are neither erased nor resolved; they remain as background noise, shaping the work through subtle tonal drift, rhythmic disturbance, and the visible passage of time. Each surface operates as a coherent field capable of bearing pressure without narrative closure.
Sarner holds a B.S. in Art Education from Florida Southern College, where she received the Albert Key Award for highest honors. After a period working in business management and raising a family, she returned to her studio practice with renewed focus and rigor. Her work has been commissioned, collected privately, featured in publications, and was the subject of a filmed studio visit with art critic Peter Frank. Sarner is an active member of The Artist Studio collective at the Palos Verdes Art Center. A passionate advocate for arts education, Sarner designs and delivers abstract art curricula for K–12 students in local school districts, reaching over 6,000 children annually.
EDUCATION
1991 Florida Southern College - Lakeland, United States Bachelor of Science Art Education
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AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
2025
Brand 53 Associates Award, Brand Library & Art Center, Juror Sigrid Burton, Glendale, CA
Best Painting, Palos Verdes Library District, Palos Verdes, CA
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2022
World Wide Art Magazine, Winner, San Diego, CA
Best of Fair, Saatchi Art, The Other Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025
Echoes and Emergence, Palos Verdes Art Center, Palos Verdes, CA
Anamnesis: Remembering What We Forgot to Be, Gallery 612, Santa Monica, CA
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2024
Dissonance to Euphony: An Artistic Journey, The Upper West, Santa Monica, CA
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS​
2025
Colorstraction, Sasse Museum of Art, Pomona, CA
How’s the Weather, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA (Juror Shanna Nys Dambrot)
Imagine, Gallery 945, Jewish Artists Initiative, Los Angeles, CA
Brand 53, The Brand Library and Art Center, CA
NOMAD, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
TRYST, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
Graphic, Minimal, Abstraction, Coastline Art Gallery, Newport Beach, CA
Art of the Peninsula, The Artists Studio Gallery, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
The Other Side, Garel Fine Art Gallery, Manhattan Beach, CA (curated by me)
2024
NOMAD, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
Apophenia, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Brand 51, Brand Library & Art Center, Glendale, CA
Spectrum Gestalt, bG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Story Mapping, AJL Art Gallery, Buena Park, CA
Roots: Where We Come From, Where We Are, 1202 Contemporary, San Francisco, CA
The Summer Show, Palos Verdes Art Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA (2024, 2023)
Juncture, Garel Fine Art Gallery, Manhattan Beach, CA
Art For All, Gallery of Hermosa, Hermosa Beach, CA
Art Within Reach, Ace Tiger Gallery, Torrance, CA
The Winter Show, Palos Verdes Art Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA (2017 - 2024)
2022
The Other Art Fair - Saatchi Art, Santa Monica, CA
Her Story, Manhattan Arts International, New York, NY
The Healing Power of Color, Manhattan Arts International, New York, NY
2021
PVAC90: Past, Present & Future, Palos Verdes Art Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
Inspirational Art in Mixed Media, Manhattan Arts International, New York, NY
RESET, Unita, Manhattan Beach, CA (3 person show curated by me)
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ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2025
Fellow, Kipaipai Artist Development Workshop, Joshua Tree, CA
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PUBLICATIONS
Melina Paris, “Echoes and Emergence: Movement, Memory & Emotion Made Visible,” Random Length News, December 22, 2025
Jordan Tate, “Layers of Memory & Healing in Mixed Media Abstraction,” Indie Pathways Magazine, Vol. 10, p. 24-28, December 2025
Voyage LA, “Robin Jack Sarner’s Story,” November 20, 2025
Genie Davis, “Welcome to The Other Side at Garel Fine Art,” Diversions LA, August 24, 2025
Kristine Schomaker, “Why We Need More Exhibitions About Body Image, Eating Disorders, and Mental Health,” Art & Cake, August 2025
Cindy Donnelly, “Art in Focus,” Palos Verdes Magazine, 47, April 2024: 14-15.
Jorge R. G. Sagastume, “On Madness, Literature, and Art,” The Pasticheur: Literature, Art, & Ideas, Volume 2:1, January 2024
Voyage LA, “Daily Inspiration: Meet Robin Jack Sarner,” May 27, 2024
Bold Journey, “Meet Robin Jack Sarner,” March 26, 2024
Shoutout LA, "Meet Robin Jack Sarner--Abstract Artist," September 9, 2024
New & Abstract, "Five Questions to Robin Jack Sarner," 2023
Canvas Rebel, "Meet Robin Jack Sarner," January 16, 2023
World Wide Art Magazine, 9th Issue, 2022
Gail Phinney, “90 People & Programming: PVAC Past, Present & Future,” 2021