Sarah Grass is a Chilean-American artist and educator working in New York, NY. She uses visual metaphor to render complexities of the psyche in drawing. Disarming symbols carry the weight of personal/collective anxieties related to trauma and grief, displaced identity in diaspora lineage, masculine/feminine polarity, non-binary states of being, and the weakened feminine principle in systems of masculine dominance.
Sarah founded The Pack in January 2021 to share her creative process and research in the form of a school. The Pack is a blend of her studio practice and teaching philosophy: drawing as a processing tool for self actualization, and communal research and accountability to harness the power of collective growth. The Pack is a wilderness for conception and creation, for artists’ inquiry rather than artists’ statements. It is open to anyone who identifies as an artist, as well as those who feel they might. .
Grass holds a BFA in Fine Arts and MFA in Art Practice from The School of Visual Arts. Her work has been exhibited across the US and internationally, at Deanna Evans Projects, New York, NY; 550 Gallery, Queens, NY; Quappi Projects, Louiville, KY; Satellite Art Club, Brooklyn, NY; Eve Leibe Gallery, London, UK; Field Projects Gallery, New York; Leftfield Gallery, Los Osos, CA; Spring Break Art Fair, New York, NY (2020/2022); Art on Paper Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Doppelgänger Projects, Ridgewood, NY; The Ferry Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand; JustMAD Art Fair, Madrid, Spain; The New School for Social Research, New York, NY; and the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX.