Visions In Clay 2024
Sarah Brett
Sarah Brett, originally from Abington, Pennsylvania, received her BFA in 2016 from The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. There, she studied ceramics and the practice of art therapy. Since then, she has taught multiple workshops and classes to various populations in and around Philadelphia’s surrounding suburbs. Brett currently lives in Collegeville, Pennsylvania where she continues to develop and build her studio practice. Brett is an auto body shop co-owner during the day and artist by night. She recently discovered combining her two worlds; building objects in clay and finishing them in automotive paints. Brett earned her Master’s in Criminal Justice from Saint Joseph’s University in 2020 in hopes to one day combine her passion for art with the science of criminal behaviors to provide an alternative therapy to a population in need.
The visceral experience of building with clay is closely related to touching and feeling the fleshiness of a body. The anthropomorphic ceramic sculptures of mass and fat that I make grow coil by coil, just as an overindulgent human form would. The bloating of form creates creases, blobs, and folds that question our perceptions of beauty. We tend to mask or contort the body in awkward and peculiar ways, camouflaging its natural form and loveliness.
Botanical Babe, 2024
Low fire terracotta, Automotive Paint (Lexus Sonic Copper, BMW Sao Paulo Yellow)
12”x12”x12”
$475