Future Me

Warm and cheerful Sabrina Small prefers to investigate what’s behind the mask in her drawings, paintings and stitchwork. “Horror and sci-fi were always inspirations. I’ve always been attracted to the underbelly of human nature and in myself and finding the beauty in the darkness,” she says. Her artwork, described as surreal and Lovecraftian (after cult horror writer H.P. Lovecraft), is beautiful and detailed—"glittering, bright and metallic,” she says—and executed with a meticulous precision that can take months to complete.

Future Me is a self-portrait, created, she says, after she became sober, and the work shows a new lightness. Small’s work has been exhibited in Berlin, Budapest, Hamburg, Mallorca, Nanjing and in galleries and museums from Seattle and San Francisco to Sarasota and Philadelphia (where she now splits her time). This month, she will be the featured artist at SPAACES contemporary art gallery in Subterranean Voices, Feb. 13-March 21, 2051 Princeton St., Sarasota.