Work samples

  • Connect
    Connect
    "Connect", 2022, porcelain, oxides, concrete, wood, steel. 16" x 17" x 6"
  • Hatch
    Hatch
    "Hatch", 2022. Porcelain, oxides, wood. Reduction fired. 20" x 12" x 10"
  • Gravity
    Gravity
    Porcelain, oxides, concrete, steel. 13" x 9" x 9"
  • Pulley
    Pulley
    Porcelain, oxides, abaca paper, wood, string, pulley. 19" x 15" x 5"

About Sara

My ceramic and mixed media sculptures are physical representations of our psychological incongruities: the doubts, questions, and shifts in perspectives through which we view the memories of our lives. The act of reflecting upon our experiences can often become an investigation, a system of discovering and constructing underlying emotional structures. I find that a memory’s ability to mutate—to restructure reality or to erode the truth—is a potent source of inquiry for my work.

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Systems

A collection of recent sculptures that investigate the connotative language of materiality paired with traditional craft processes. The works appear soft and pliable, yet they are hardened and permanent objects in space. This perceived softness relates to the flesh of the body in order to connect with our innate humanness and the malleable perception of our memories. The use of materials such as wood and concrete creates a physical and psychological intimacy around a space that is associated with home, structure and shelter. The making process involves a conscious act of piecemeal construction; building as needed to conceal or support the centralized ceramic form. 
  • Connect
    Connect
    "Connect", 2022, porcelain, oxides, concrete, wood, steel. 16" x 17" x 6"
  • Hatch
    Hatch
    "Hatch", 2022. Porcelain, oxides, wood. Reduction fired. 20" x 12" x 10"
  • Logically Speaking
    Logically Speaking
    Porcelain, oxides, wood. 16" x 8" x 10.5". 2017.
  • Gravity
    Gravity
    Porcelain, oxides, concrete, steel. 13" x 9" x 9". 2020
  • Pulley
    Pulley
    Porcelain, oxides, wood, abaca paper, string, pulley, 19" x 15" x 5". 2020.
  • Nest
    Nest
    Porcelain, oxides, hydrocal, wood, foams. 12" x 8" x 8" 2019.
  • Rift
    Rift
    Porcelain, oxides, wood, drywall, insulation foam. 27" x 8" x 11" 2019.
  • Tyvek
    Tyvek
    Porcelain, oxides, wood, concrete. 14" x 11" x 9". 2018
  • Foundation
    Foundation
    Porcelain, oxides, wood, concrete. 15.5" x 9" x 5". 2018.
  • Just Tarp It
    Just Tarp It
    Porcelain, oxides, wood, tarp. 9" x 11" x 6". 2018.

Structures of Memory

This series of ceramic and mixed media sculptures navigate how spaces, places, and objects can be repositories for memories. How, in particular, domestic objects and spaces can elicit a particular feeling or state of mind from long ago. Their fixed state serves as a means to document a single instance of a recalled event, to create a calcified moment of the past. Through various ambivalent postures, props, and subtle comparisons, the forms evoke a curiosity, a desire to empathize with their conflicting state. 2015-2016.
  • Taut
    Taut
    Porcelain, glaze, cast bronze knot
  • Taut detail
    Taut detail
    Porcelain, glaze, cast bronze knot
  • Wait
    Wait
    Porcelain, oxides, wooden bench. 19"x10"x12" on 29"x12"x27" bench
  • Threshold
    Threshold
    Porcelain, oxides, stains, wooden door. 72" x 28" x 4"
  • Corner
    Corner
    Porcelain, oxides, wooden platform. 22”x16”x17” on 50”x36”x16” platform
  • Corner detail
    Corner detail
    Porcelain, oxides, wooden platform. 22”x16”x17” on 50”x36”x16” platform
  • Hold
    Hold
    Porcelain, oxides, stains, wax, watercolor, concrete and cinderblocks. 23" x 55" x 8"
  • Weight
    Weight
    Porcelain, oxides, stains, clothesline. 16" x 24" x 3" ceramic on 14' clothesline with pulleys.
  • Weight detail
    Weight detail
    Porcelain, oxides, stains, clothesline. 16" x 24" x 3"

Drawings

Various watercolor and ink drawings. 2018-present.

Drawing and sketching have always been integral parts of my practice. Almost all of my sculptures start with a sketch or two, but I also make small drawings independently from my three-dimensional work.  The imagery and subject matter between them is often similar, but with enough subtle differences to allow for a progression of ideas—almost a conversation—between the two- and three- dimensional pieces. 
 
I’ve always felt that my drawings allow me to defy gravity and entertain impossibilities in construction that I wouldn’t be able to physically build in my sculptures. Sometimes a drawing may morph into an idea for a sculpture, but often they are more freeing and not tied to the physics of reality.
  • Sludge and Streetlight
    Sludge and Streetlight
    Watercolor and ink, 8" x 5"
  • Where I sleep
    Where I sleep
    Watercolor and ink, 8" x 5"
  • Tip-over
    Tip-over
    Watercolor and ink, 9" x 12"
  • Little Bean
    Little Bean
    Watercolor and ink, 5" x 5"
  • Telephone Pole
    Telephone Pole
    Watercolor and ink, 8" x 5"
  • Straight Back
    Straight Back
    Watercolor and ink, 8" x 5"
  • Doorway Cloud
    Doorway Cloud
    Watercolor and ink, 8" x 5"
  • Neuronal Niceties
    Neuronal Niceties
    Watercolor and ink, 8" x 5"
  • Baleen
    Baleen
    Watercolor and ink, 8" x 5"

Porcelain Drawings

These pieces were made to explore underglaze pencil drawings on porcelain forms.
  • Shack
    Shack
    Shack, 2022
  • Clothesline
    Clothesline
    Clothesline, 2022
  • Clothesline
    Clothesline
    Clothesline, 2022
  • Pulley
    Pulley
    Pulley, 2022