Catalogue essay · 2025
“Two As One” by Barbara O’Brien
Standing in the River: Recent Paintings and Sculpture by Sara Mast, Montana State University College of Arts and Architecture
“Thirteen paintings and sculptures, all created between 2022 and 2024, form the dramatic and immersive exhibition Standing in the River: Recent Paintings and Sculpture by Sara Mast. The title Standing in the River invites viewers to imagine themselves at the meeting place of art and nature; touched by cool, moving water; discovering a place where memory and inspiration meet.”
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Book · 2017
Launching the Imagination, 6th edition
by Mary Stewart · McGraw-Hill
Mary Stewart’s design textbook, used in foundations courses nationwide, features Sara Mast’s painting Orion’s Gift, an interview with the artist, and installation views of Black (W)hole.
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Anne Lee & E. Ashley Rooney
Book · 2016
Encaustic Art in the Twenty-First Century
by Anne Lee and E. Ashley Rooney · Schiffer Publishing, Atglen, PA
A survey of contemporary encaustic painters selected by invitation, featuring Sara Mast’s biography and five of her paintings (pp. 187–188).
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Journal cover · 2016
“Black (W)hole: An Artscience and Education Collaboration”
by Sara Mast and Joey Key · Leonardo, Vol. 49, No. 1, The MIT Press
Black (W)hole, the Einstein Collective’s immersive art/science installation, appeared on the cover of Leonardo, the leading international peer-reviewed journal on the use of contemporary science and technology in the arts and music.
Newspaper · 2014
“Bozeman artist, relatives contemplate family in ‘Soundings’”
Missoulian, September 12, 2014
On Soundings, Sara Mast’s collaborative exhibition with the creatives in her family, built around her father’s legacy as a physicist, mechanical engineer, and inventor.
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Catalogue essay · 2013
“(In)Visible Horizon(s)” by Barbara O’Brien
Sara Mast: Soundings, Ucross Foundation Art Gallery, Clearmont, WY
“The skyline near Bozeman, Montana, where painter Sara Mast lives, teaches, and has an active studio practice, is quite astonishing to this native Midwesterner.”
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Catalogue essay · 2013
“Distant Signals” by Michele Corriel
Sara Mast: Soundings, Ucross Foundation Art Gallery, Clearmont, WY
“Sara Mast’s personal myth, her story, her basis for life as an artist, embodies the courage of personal investigation as well as the beauty of human mystery. Mast’s paintings slowly reveal to us … a glimpse of the infinite, as ethereal as breath on glass.”
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Stephen Wilson
Book · 2010
Art + Science Now
by Stephen Wilson · Thames & Hudson, New York
Stephen Wilson’s international survey of artists working with scientific research and new technologies features Bioglyphs, Sara Mast’s art/science collaboration (p. 47).
Read more →The Art of Encaustic Painting: Contemporary Expression in the Ancient Medium of Pigmented Wax
Joanne Mattera
Book · 2001
The Art of Encaustic Painting
by Joanne Mattera · Watson-Guptill, New York
Joanne Mattera’s landmark book on contemporary encaustic painting reproduces and discusses Sara Mast’s paintings throughout.
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Exhibition catalogues with essays by curators and critics.
AND SCULPTURE BYSARA MAST
Standing in the River: Recent Paintings and Sculpture by Sara Mast
2025 · Montana State University College of Arts and Architecture · Essays by Barbara O’Brien, Anita Moore-Nall and Sara Mast; poems by Cassia Hameline
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Sara Mast: Soundings
2013 · Ucross Foundation Art Gallery · Essays by Barbara O’Brien and Michele Corriel
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Swept Away: Translucence, Transparence, Transcendence in Contemporary Encaustic
2013 · Cape Cod Museum of Art · Group exhibition
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