ABOUT

Abigail Sutherland was born in York, Pennsylvania in 1996.  She received her Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art with a minor concentration in Museum Studies from the University of Pittsburgh in 2018.  Sutherland has experience with drawing, printmaking, and small-scale additive sculpture, but primarily focuses on painting with oil and thread-and-needle stitching in her work.   Conceptually, her work is driven by a desire to elicit emotion through evocative abstractions, concentrating on involved, time-intensive techniques as a metaphor for an intimate connection to art.  Sutherland's artwork has been displayed in the American Jewish Museum at the Pittsburgh Jewish Cultural Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; the York Art Association in York, Pennsylvania; and the Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Westmoreland, Pennsylvania.  She currently lives and works in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.