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Artist and naturalist Sarina Brewer recycles the
natural into the unnatural, breathing new life into the animals she
resurrects. While earning a BFA in 1992 from the Minneapolis College of
Art and Design, she worked predominantly with oil paint and found objects,
most of which were animal remains. Early works were shrines to the animals
they incorporated, creating final resting places for them. Preparing
animal remains for use in her sculpture and abstract paintings slowly
evolved into taxidermy over the course of a decade. Sarina is now a
licensed taxidermist as well as a prolific artist. She volunteers her
skills in the biology department of the Science Museum of Minnesota and is
also engaged in various natural history related projects for other
educational institutions and museums. She is a strong proponent of
wildlife conservation who also participates in wildlife rescue and
rehabilitation. This artist has a deep respect and appreciation for
animals and the natural world. She is fascinated with the circle of life
and intrigued with how different cultures honor their dead and deal with
death. Immortalizing loved ones ( be they animals or humans ) by
preserving their remains or creating sentimental remembrances out of their
body parts does not sit well with the majority of western society and is
unfathomable to the average thinker. Yet such practices have been the norm
in many cultures throughout history and still are. Undoubtedly the average
American thinks such abhorrent practices are only carried out by "savages"
in primitive cultures, yet they even exist in this day and age in the
"civilized" world, a well known example being the preserved remains of
saints on display in Catholic Churches around the world. Point being,
reverence is relative. This artist deals with death, in what is considered
by most, an unconventional manner. She does not view a dead animal as
disgusting or offensive. She feels that all creatures exhibit beauty in
death, as well as in life, and pays homage to them by reincarnating them
in her works of art.
PRESSSarina Brewer’s work has appeared in dozens of magazines around the world including Bizarre (England), Front (England), Last (Australia), Choc (France), P-Magazine (Belgium), FHM (Lithuania), and El Correo Espanol (Spain). The numerous publications here at home include Maxim, Juxtapoz, Fortune Small Business, Garage, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Sun, and The New York Times. She also appeared on the nationally syndicated television talk show "Call of the Wild" with Ron Schara and has interviewed for Minnesota Public Radio
EXHIBITIONS Minnesota Association of Rogue
Taxidermists Inaugural Exhibition Wunderkabinet of Ichthyological
Curiosities Man and Beast; Part II of
Regional Collections Rogue’s Open
Studio Alive on the inside; The Lure
and Lore The Minnesota Association of
Rogue Taxidermists; The Iowa Invitational Artists of Juxtapoz
2006 Fabulous Sea
Monsters Cryptozoology: Out of Time Out
of Place Alive on the inside; The Lure
and Lore of the Sideshow 2006
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