Nancy Unger, In the Arts Review,"On View"
Montgomery Co. Gazette
Entertainment Section
July 5, 2000

"Sabyna Sterrett's series of fine colored pencil drawings reject the body for the mind. Her "Darkness" series portrays the fears experienced while sleeplessly waiting for daybreak 'through a long and lonely night, in a hospital room...' These are fantasy scapes that flow liquidly across the page, simultaneously portraying both the vast reaches of outer space and the vast recesses of the mind. Perhaps symbolizing the brain itself, in "Night Confusion" individual strands of violet, blue and pale green invade a trompe l'oeil ragged piece of white paper. There they tangle and struggle in a wild dance of neurons."

 

Penope Nunes, Curator
Perspectives: Inside and Out

"Sabyna Sterrett's Parkinson's series reveals her perspective of the disease. "Dark Celebration" is a piece of many dualities. Areas of carefully drawn dense pattern are fragmented by areas of agitated or thin meandering lines, reflecting the disease's disjointed moments of reason and clarity versus irrationality and confusion. Introduced here and in the rest of the series are miniscule motifs Sterrett calls 'creatures.' Barely containing the vibrant colors and 'creatures' is a jagged black border. It is a keyhole from which we view the many functions of the brain."