About
Biography
Sara was born in Augusta, Georgia at the tender age of 0. Growing up in the area, Sara attended Augusta University where she received her Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in Studio Arts (2016). In 2020, Sara graduated with a Master of Fine Arts in ceramics from Clemson University in South Carolina. Over the years, she has had work exhibited in Rochester, New York, Atlanta, Georgia, Knoxville, Tennessee, New Orleans, LA and Yongin and Cheonan, South Korea. Sara’s current work can be understood as investigations into the peripheral spaces of our everyday lives and the bodily experience within those spaces. Ceramics and drawing all contribute as devices that help to articulate details from these locations, thus bringing new meaning. In conjunction with studio, Sara enjoys being outdoors and exploring the wildlife found in the Southeast. |
Artist Statement
I seek an intuitive process that relies on play, experimentation, and balance. Clay, glaze, and paint all allow me a certain amount of control, but have the potential to create their own worlds, which I like to respond to as an artist. Using a visual language of highly dense textures, openings and saturated colors, the pieces appear attractive while at the same time creating repulsion. I think this play between the two, beauty and the grotesque, is unique to the human experience. Statement on the Spaces In-Between
My work investigates the power an “in-between” space. When I say this, I mean it as a space that lies within our perception but falls just outside of our complete understanding. Some of those spaces are by their nature, minute in experience. We tend to not give them much thought in comparison to the much bigger and more defined matters of our lives. However, by bringing a new light to or into seeing these places, the space is not “small,” but in fact immense. In his book, The Poetics of Space, French philosopher Gaston Bachelard uses a phenomenological approach in which he explores and muses about objects such as the nest, the shell, and the corner. Through a personal observation, his mode of examination is prolonged and generous to those things he observes. For him, those places he explores can be filled with our own thoughts and in doing so, sets them apart as spaces made anew. The inside of a shell becomes an entire house and a corner gives way to a whole room. My thesis work takes the form of ceramic sculpture. What I seek through this body of work and presentation is also to materialize a microcosm of enlarged textures and nuanced openings. Titled The Spaces In-between, what I hope through this work is that we learn to attune ourselves to the more nuanced places in our lives. In doing so, we re-sensitize ourselves to appreciate the world we inhabit. |
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