Artist Statement: I like to push...Push the fold...Innovate...Figure out how to do something then figure out how to do it even better...I get bored once I accomplish something...I can’t seem to make multiples...Once it is done, it is done & I am not going to make another one...This can hurt profitability...But I feel the paradigm of repetitive production is obsolete...I see a future where pure intellectual innovation will be rewarded without the need to commercialize it somehow...I wonder about the Star Trek idea of a new culture where money is not the driving force...I live that future already...
Bio: Sari is an optimist by nature, someone who always sees the sunny side of things, even if there is no sunny side really...She grew up with two wonderful parents & a great brother...Later she married the very best guy in the world, another artist named Joseph Grove...She likes art because it is for her a happy place to be...A place where joy can reside...So she decided to make art herself because that was the nicest thing she thought she could do for people’s lives...I’d tell you more about angst or strife or misery or struggling, but really, that was not the case...But perhaps, because I am Sari & I am writing this, my perception is warped by my extreme positivity...But, to tell you the truth, life has been good...
Sari Grove is a Vase...A Vase is a Visual Artist Self-Employed...
Sari Groveʼs Art background...Mostly just shows & education are listed here...
Mentors: via Art Biz Incubator (ABI), Art Business Coach, Alyson Stanfield (I also put this here to help other artists if they need some coaching...)
Selected Commercial Galleries & Alternative Venues: 2012-2013 Agincourt Library, Nov.27th, 2012-Jan.29, 2013, solo show (by the grace of Scarborough Arts, a wonderful arts organization that teaches, learns, & implements) Curator: Benedict Lopes 2011 Bluffs Gallery, Scarborough (this gallery overlooks the Bluffs, which are cliffs on Lake Ontario- I think interesting locations are so much a part of the viewing experience)! Curator: a lady named Susan Dimitrakopolous 2010 National Mailbox, Yorkville (an experiment in converting web viewers to bricks & mortar) Owner: Don Tannahill 2009 Water Lily, Davisville (Water Lily was a health supplement place with some eco-art showing as well) Director: an exotic creature from an India lineage family in Africa named Usha Makan 2008 Kohl Gallery of Arts, Eglinton Director: Gary Kohl who was an art teacher at Toronto schools 2007 Scollard Street Gallery, Yorkville, Grand Opening of Gallery Director: Serge Chriqui who came from running a wood flooring business 2006 Yorkville Gallery, Yorkville Director: Chun Chen an artist with a sister who owns real estate & a Chinese sensibility 2005 Lanes Gallery, Hazelton Lanes (Lanes gallery had gorgeous Persian carpets & I had all their giant window space looking out from Hazelton lanes mall) Director: Bahman Fadaie-nia who had a deep knowledge of the art of carpetmaking 2004 Studio 99 Cafe & Gallery, Yorkville (Me & Joseph had all the walls here) Director: Warsame Boch who brought the flavours of Djibouti 2003 Art Canadiana Gallery, Bloor Street Directors: Sharon Norman & Ray Argyle
with a corporate feel 2002 ArtistsDog Gallery, Montreal Director: Michael Cooper with ad agency savvy 2001 Original Papers Art Gallery, Prince Arthur Street ( I had a big solo show here) Director: Tom Gottlieb who loved to eat & socialize (in the best way) 2000 ArtFocus Gallery, Toronto (Pat Fleisher who was an old pro in the art business) 1999 The Redhead Gallery, Spadina (an artist run centre) 1998 Yorkville Fine Frame, Yorkville (Yorkville Fine Frame is in tony Yorkville on Bellair, it was a tremendous retail location, 2 different incarnations of owners newly from Korea) 1997 Gebo Artworx, Queen street ( an artist hippy feel co-operative venture) 1996 Artalog Art Gallery, Castlefield Avenue North York (this gallery put art on computer & carried the computer to corporates-this was Before the internet existed! A smart & nice person named Mark Buck) 1994-1995 Studio 2007, Sherbourne Street (my first studio, which I loved & had 2 solo shows in & the bakery downstairs made it all smell good) 1993 First sale of a work of art & so, became a “professional”...
Sari Grove is a Vase...A Vase is a Visual Artist Self-Employed...
Educational Background: University of Toronto Humber College Harvard University Ryerson Polytechnical University Atkinson College
1989 McGill University, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Sarah Lawrence College 1984 University of Toronto Schools (U.T.S.) High School Diploma 1979 The Toronto French School, lower school Media, Books, etc. Interviewed on a show called MediaTV on the CITYTV channel...(about computers & art-this was Before the in
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