Meet Sara Carter: The Austin Abstract Painter Translating Love Into Color

DECEMBER 2025

For nearly four decades, Sara Carter has channeled universal energy into abstract works that pulse with color, emotion and love…

Sara Carter: Conversations On Beauty

OCTOBER 2025

From Lone Star Light House: "Renowned Austin based abstract artist Sara Carter will be the subject of a special exhibit named…

Artist in Residence

DECEMBER 2024

Nestled in Austin’s tree canopy, artist and collector Sara Carter builds a home as her canvas—designed to cultivate art, nature, and imagination…

Convo with artist Sara Carter: Tierra's Texas

OCTOBER 2025

Tierra chats with artist Sara Cater about her works and more.

Sara Carter: An Artist in Residence

OCTOBER 2025

Our friend Sara Carter is both an artist and a collector. Her Northern California home is layered with art…

Art-to-art

JUNE 2011

Dreams, railways, art books and Jane Fonda’s identity... all inspired works exhibited in New York this spring…

Elusive Space

JUNE 2011

Sara Carter’s paintings are a contrast between light and dark. The layering of geometric forms in Carter’s work are used to convey space…

Pulse New York

MARCH 2011

group show featuring Jeremy Dean, Karim Hamid Eric Doeringer, Sara Carter, Amy Greenfield, and Jack Balas…

Scope Basel: Brash, but Humble

JUNE 2009

If this year’s Scope art fair — its third in Basel — didn’t, in the end, pack quite the aesthetic punch one wanted, it certainly opened with a bang…

Graystone Gallery: Sara Carter.

OCTOBER 2005

Large plaid-like abstracts so finely painted and finished that I got stuck on the zoom-in trying to figure out…

Helnwein locates the latent menace in night visitors

NOVEMBER 2005

The work of San Francisco painter Sara Carter nicely illustrates the advantages and problems of a methodical style. Carter drags acrylic color across stretched canvases laid face up,

Outside the window, a watcher in the dark

MAY 2003

Does all photography have snooping as a subtext? All kinds of pictures support that idea, from images that capture things too fast, small or distant for the naked eye, to straightforward…

Art Notes

FEBRUARY 2003

The di Rosa Preserve: Art & Nature's Gatehouse Gallery has a new exhibition, "Approaching Abstraction: The Power of Suggestion."

Sara Carter’s abstracts look lit from the core

OCTOBER 2002

Abstract painters no longer imagine that their work can have content without reference. Most now see their task as managing the inevitable occurrence…

The Monterey Museum of Art opens a stunning exhibit by master photographer Pirkle Jones.

OCTOBER 2002

The sun is setting on modern photography, creating shadows and voids…