Interdisciplinary artist collaborating with the Pacific Ocean toward collective healing.
Sarah McCarthy Grimm is an interdisciplinary artist who has maintained a studio practice since graduating with a degree in Visual Art from Brown University in 2013. In 2014, she took a cross-country road trip alone to explore the landscape photographically, and decided to “stay for a year and see what happens” in San Francisco. Eleven years later, she plunges daily at Ocean Beach and can’t imagine leaving her creative community in the Outer Sunset. Her process includes painting, printmaking, photography, writing, and participatory projects.
Her work has been deeply informed by the ambiguous loss of her only sibling, Chelsea Grimm, who disappeared from a rural road in Arizona in September 2023. She seeks to alchemize her grief into visual art that feels soothing, conjuring the spiritual medicine she needs and hopes it can help others. In collaboration with visionary artist Jamae Tasker, she designed Ocean Calling, a public installation at Ocean Beach giving people an opportunity to call lost loved ones and convene around shared grief. Ultimately, her core intention is to reinforce a healing interconnection within humanity and between humankind, the ocean and the cosmos.
