Sabella is an artist, designer, and writer creating under the moniker “the monarq” which is a multidisciplinary art practice.
She works with abstraction through a mixture of analog photography, pattern design, and printmaking alongside portraiture. Themes around self identity and its expression along with capturing the relationship between the environment and the journey towards self-discovery is a principle theme of her work.
Interested in my design work?
Senior interaction design portfolio can be found at sabella.is
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Education
2012
Lithography Workshop, Printmakers Collaborative, Chicago, IL
2011
Screenprint Intensive, Lillstreet Art, Chicago, IL
2009
BFA, Graphic Design, Drake University, Des Moines, IA
Concentration: Lithographic Printmaking
Minor: English Writing
Selected Exhibitions
2022
Solo exhibition, “Internal Dialogues”, Sassafras, Seattle WA
Utility Box Collaboration with Seattle Storm and Force4Change, Urban Artworks, Seattle, WA
Black and Indigenous Peoples Residency, Editions Studio, Seattle, WA
Willapa Bay Artist in Residency, Willapa Bay, WA
Group exhibition, "ACES: Artists of Color Expo" Shunpike, Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute, Seattle, WA
2021
Artist Trust - 2021 Grants for Artists' Progress Awards (GAP) recipient
Group exhibition, “Pushing Pink” Julian Peña Gallery, Seattle, WA
2020
Group exhibition, "ACES: Artists of Color Expo" Shunpike, Seattle Center, Seattle, WA
Group exhibition, "The Art of Protest ", Seattle Deconstructed Art Fair, Columbia City Gallery, Seattle, WA
2019
Solo exhibition, "Agents of Change" ArtsWest Theater, Seattle, WA
Solo exhibition, Tougo, Seattle, WA
Group exhibition, "Abstraction II", Envision Arts, Virtual exhibit
Group exhibition, "Future Eyes x Visions of Infinity", Gallery Axis, Seattle, WA
Group exhibition, "Resiliency", Krasl Art Center, St. Joseph, MI
Group exhibition, "Social/Racial Justice", Antioch University, Seattle, WA
Group exhibition, "Art is Distortion", Jacoby Arts Center, Alton, IL
Group exhibition, "Figure That! 2nd Annual", 3 Square-Art, Fort Collins, CO
Solo exhibition, Capitol Hill Art Walk, Retail Therapy, Seattle, WA
Group exhibition,“Make me a World", 21st Annual Iowa African American Festival, Des Moines, IA
2018
Group exhibition, “Our Town: Reclaiming the Narrative”, Anderson Gallery, Des Moines, IA
Group exhibition, “Cabinet of Curiosities”, Union Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
Group exhibition, “Open Source”, LACDA, Los Angeles, CA
Solo exhibition, Cafe Ladro, Seattle, WA
2009
Group exhibition, “Hair Down to There”, Koehline Art Museum, Chicago, IL
2008
Group exhibition, “Light Up” Shijiazhuang, P. R. China
Collections
Private collections, Chicago, IL
Private collections, Seattle, WA
Private collections, Des Moines, IA
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