“Collective Body” is a one day pop-up exhibit in collaboration with @liberationmovement2025 and @thebiennial on the 16th Street Mall this Sunday✨ Join us on October 26th at Writer’s Square for a day of art and embodied reflection.

Last call y’all: “Soul Sutures” will be up at McNichols until September 30, alongside nearly a dozen reclaimed textile works of mine in the Fiber Arts Today exhibit.

To “suture” is to stitch a wound closed. In this col

In July, I joined the Board of Directors for @projectpave - a Denver nonprofit that empowers youth to build healthy relationships and break cycles of violence.

As a survivor myself, this means so much. When I was in high school, I lived through rela

“Liberation and Loss” is on view at the McNichols building for the Fiber Arts Today exhibition through September 30th.

This work came from sitting with the ache of release and how letting go can be both devastating and necessary. I stitc

About

Sarah Darlene (b. 1989) is a painter and interdisciplinary artist whose work explores embodiment as both a spiritual and material process. Working with recycled textiles, found garments, and painted fabric forms, she transforms discarded materials into meditative works that reflect on repair, intimacy, and renewal. Her process moves between painting, ritual, and installation, where stitching, tying, and braiding become gestures of care and transformation.

Rooted in yogic philosophy and dream practice, her wall-based pieces emerge from the same contemplative rhythm: breath as brushstroke, repetition as prayer. Drawing from the yogic principles of Atman and Maya—the true self and the illusion of form—her paintings ask for a kind of seeing that begins in the body rather than the mind.

By working with recycled fabrics, Darlene also addresses the environmental impact of the textile industry, transforming post-consumer remnants into portals of presence and care. Whether working on paper, cloth, or large-scale installations, her process bridges the personal and the planetary, revealing how sustained individual attention becomes a force for collective change.

Her work has been exhibited at institutions including the Denver Art Museum, RedLine Contemporary Art Center, and Regis University. She has led contemplative painting programs across museums and community spaces like the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, merging somatic awareness with contemporary abstraction.

Darlene lives and works in Denver, Colorado, and is currently developing Soft Currents, a digital “slow-tech” artwork and app exploring meditation, sound, and visual abstraction as communal ritual.