Detail, Night Owl, 10 x 7.5 x 2 feet
Detail of side, Night Owl, 10 x 7.5 x 2
Night Owl, 10 x 7.5 x 2 feet
Sarah Alexander
We just want to comment on the exceptional quality of Sarah’s photographs. The images really make her work shine and the perspectives enhance the scale and details of the work.
SARAH ALEXANDER
Hopedale, MASSACHUSETTS, USA
Sarah Alexander’s work is highly detailed, layered, and fluid. She works with multiple materials and mediums from paintings and ink drawings to Steelwork. Alexander creates through a stream of consciousness, and the resulting depictions appear gravity-defying. “With my steel sculptures I explored the feelings of living in an enchanted limbo as I grew too comfortable in my isolated routine, growing into my space as if I were turning into one of the wild overgrown plants in my garden. I explore the sensation of becoming immersed in my surroundings and being lost in thought.”
Sarah Alexander is a self-taught multi-disciplinary artist working on paper, canvas, and sculpting with steel. She is the Director of Visual Arts and teaches Children and adults at Hopkinton Center for the Arts in Hopkinton Ma. She is a Core Artist Member at Fountain Street Gallery in Boston Ma. Her work is in private collections and has been shown extensively throughout New England, and abroad. Her work has been published by North Light Books. She is the mother of sculptor Elizabeth Alexander.
Regarding my recent dive into working with steel:
“Cataloging my life through daily drawing sessions using imagery from my own personal history, I work obsessively to process my way through hectic days. Welding and cold hammering work out of steel has been cathartic for me. I wanted to see my drawings take form and become three dimensional, as a way to give them more power, and perhaps therefore to give myself more power. The decision to use steel was a natural one since I and my husband have owned and operated a steel fabrication business for nearly 4 decades.”