Sarah Schacht

Sarah Schacht (b.1995) is an artist from Blue Bell, Pennsylvania and is currently living and working in Brooklyn, New York. She received her BA in Painting from Tulane University in 2018 and did Post-Baccalaureate work at Tyler School of Art in 2019.

In Sarah’s work, the organic and the industrial collide. Her figures are caught in brief, obscure moments, often contemplative, and sometimes rather sickly or indisposed.

Her life as a city dweller leaves her mostly removed from rural life; Sarah nonetheless draws inspiration from the nostalgic and strange landscapes of the American backcountry. Time moves at an imperceptible rate outside the confines of city borders. In the lull of a forgotten countryside, she can languish in and highlight the dialectical extremes that seem to be the only source of staying power in her mind’s quest for truth. These startling dichotomies plunge further into the macabre, dreamlike scenes of an Americana limbo land. By her own admission, perhaps another driving force of her work is a penchant for dissociation catalyzed by the age of information.

Sarah’s work is inspired by overthinking, roadtrips, death, kitschy home decor, clutter, memories, trees, mental illness, missing information, taxidermy, and imagined post-Capitalistic landscapes, interrupted by the magnificent power of nature and beauty. In all these spaces, viewers of her work see degradation, overgrowth, the subtle refraction of light, humanity’s desire to produce, consume, and to “other” in scenes that are both new and all too familiar.

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