Upcoming
18.9 – 17.10 2026
Sarah Schlesinger:Sight Line
3–5 Swallow Street
Sarah Schlesinger:Sight Line
18.9 – 17.10.2026
Upcoming
Hours
Monday to Friday, 10:00am – 5:30pm
Saturday, 1:30pm – 5:30pm
Gallery
3–5 Swallow Street
London
W1B 4DE
Huxley-Parlour is delighted to announce Sight Line, a new exhibition by New York-based artist, Sarah Schlesinger. Opening at our Swallow Street gallery in September 2026, the exhibition will present a suite of twelve intimately-scaled works on panel. In her second solo exhibition with the gallery, Schlesinger continues her reimagining of the landscape genre.
In this new body of work, Schlesinger investigates the formalist possibilities within seascapes and waves. The artist removes traditional landscape tropes, such as panoramic vistas and horizon lines, offering instead closely-cropped vignettes whose perspectives ebb and flow through gentle shifts in palette and tone. Operating within these limitations, Schlesinger introduces geometric abstraction into her work that complicates our understanding of surface and object.
As the exhibition title suggests, Schlesinger’s depictions emphasise the subjectivity of vision. The artist illuminates her works without revealing their light source; hazy oranges glisten on the surface of inky blues and murky greens, alluding to sunsets or sunrise. This temporal ambiguity disorients our sense of place, allowing the landscape to exist in a state of continual revelation and concealment.
B. United States1988
Biography
Sarah Schlesinger’s paintings explore the psychology of looking through intimate, subtly-toned landscapes in which hedgerows, waves, bushes and other barriers partially obscure the view. Working on a small scale, she constructs imagined scenes that balance precise perspectival structures with moments of visual ambiguity, positioning the viewer at the threshold between revelation and concealment. Shadows, false symmetries and dissolving forms subtly disrupt spatial certainty, transforming familiar motifs into landscapes imbued with metaphor and mystery. Through this restrained visual language, Schlesinger investigates perception and the act of looking, creating paintings that suggest what remains hidden may be as significant as what is revealed.
Sarah Schlesinger was born in Pennsylvania in 1988. In 2010, she received a BFA in Studio Art from Taylor University, Indiana, before completing an MFA in Sculpture at the New York Academy of Art, New York, in 2015. She undertook a residency at Mimar Sinan University, Istanbul (2014), and received the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant and the Chubb Postgraduate Fellowship, New York Academy of Art (2015), before participating in the Adventure Painting Residency, Yellowstone (2023) and being featured in New American Paintings, Issue 176 (2025). Select solo exhibitions include Savage Garden, Workplace Foundation, Newcastle upon Tyne (2023); Eye Level, Huxley-Parlour, London (2024); Two Trees, Tennis Elbow, Journal Gallery, New York (2024); and a forthcoming solo exhibition at Huxley-Parlour, London (2026). Select group exhibitions include Time + Place, Huxley-Parlour, London (2024); Obstructed View, Main Projects, Richmond, Virginia (2025); and Elemental Hours, Slip House, New York (2026). Schlesinger currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.