Sarah Crowner
Faire Foyer: Sarah Crowner in Dialogue with Etel Adnan is on view through July 26, 2026 at The Bass Museum in Miami Beach. The exhibition brings together new work by Crowner and a monumental ceramic mural by Etel Adnan, the only example of its kind by Adnan in the United States.
Though hefty in weight, Crowner’s highly reflective bronzes—her “stones” cast from enlarged versions of found beach pebbles—have a sense of lightness and rhythm while asserting a definitive, dazzling presence. Their reflective but imperfect surfaces distort the surroundings, including the hues of Adnan’s mural. The sculptures are placed on pedestals like precious stones, and arranged in relation to the exhibition’s other works, which include rarely exhibited photographs of the rocky California coastline taken by Adnan in the 1960s. Reflecting viewers’ movements and physical proximity to the forms, Crowner’s bronzes and installation design weave together varying surfaces—glaze, metal, fiber, carpet and color. The interplay of materials furthers the artist’s pursuit of visual harmony between abstraction and the spaces where art and viewers intersect.
To learn more about the exhibition, please visit The Bass website.