SaraSue Pennell
SaraSue Pennell: A Life in Images
September 7 to October 6, 2024
Opening Reception: Sunday, September 8 from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Lex Art will feature the work of 93-year-old, long-time Lexington resident, SaraSue Pennell.
SaraSue was recognized by the Pastel Society of America, as their 2021 Hall of Fame honoree alongside such art world luminaries as Daniel Chester French, Mary Cassatt and William Merritt Chase. The exhibit will feature a lifetime of SaraSue’s self-portraits, from her early teens to the present. Her portraits done each year on her birthday – “the Annual Report” – chart her development as an artist, the progression of her life, her shifting moods, and her many, many cats. Intimate and self-reflecting, SaraSue has produced a deeply personal, important, and substantial body of work, now accessible to everyone. It is truly a privilege to be invited into her life, to share her journey, to draw hope and inspiration from her constancy and resolve.