Sabina Eastman

 Sabina Eastman is an artist from Omaha, Nebraska.

She is a graduate of Pitzer College and received her bachelor's degree in 2023 with a double major in Art History and Studio Art. She is completing a master's degree in Curating Contemporary Art at The Royal College of Art from 2023-24. 

Sabina studies art history, theory, and classical and surreal aesthetics, centering feminism and the female gaze in her portraiture. Her work combines her creative and academic practice while reflecting the convergence of her personal aesthetic goals with the canon of classical art history. These ideas specifically revolve around the surrealist movement and their anti-woman assertions in combination with their wildly explicit and sexual imagery, as well as more classical portraiture involving the female body and the male gaze. The concept of the artist’s gaze is essential to her work in understanding how a subject can be represented to reflect traditional imagery while simultaneously asserting their empowerment. The surrealist imagination is likewise a central component in creating a fictional past in which artists saw feminine subjects (both real and figural) as valuable characters in their works, not simply objects for sexually aesthetic merit.

Sabina’s work ranges in media from painting to drypoint intaglio etching, and the museum setting is essential to her exhibition strategies. The context of these works is given the same importance as the subject matter itself, with a focus on an aesthetic goal to create an environment that separates the work from conservative institutional values. While her work deals with certain art movements and their treatment of women, they likewise tackle institutional critique and reject contemporary exhibition guidelines.

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