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Sarah Fox’s multi-media narratives and characters are created from embodied female experience. Stories of life, loss, sex and love are told through corporeal hybrid creatures. The resulting collages, cyanotypes, and animations suggest a childlike fairytale but with an undercurrent of dark symbolism.
Her work has been shown throughout Texas, as well as in the Kinsey Institute (Bloomington, Indiana), Field Projects Gallery (New York, New York), Espacio Dörffi (Lanzarote, Canary Islands), Casa Lu (Mexico City), and Darmstädter Sezession, (Darmstadt, Germany). In 2019 she was a recipient of a Sustainable Arts Foundation grant that allowed her to live and work at the Women’s Studio Workshop in NY with her son.
Fox lives and works in San Antonio, Texas with her 5-year old son. She teaches at Texas State University and runs the summer Nature of Art Camp for young artists at Confluence Park.
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Artist Style: Teaching Artist/Instructor: Group Instruction, Guest Speaker, Instruction for Adults, Instruction for Children, Instruction for Seniors, Instruction for Special Needs, Multi-Day Artist Residency, Performer for Schools/Classrooms, Private Lessons, Workshop Presenter; Visual Art: Collage, Conceptual, Contemporary, Dream Imagery/Ethereal, Experimental, Expressionistic, Figurative, Illustrative, Narrative/Historical, Nature/Wildlife, Political, Realism, Representational, Site-Specific, Social Commentary
Artist Medium: Collage; Drawing Media; Video, Animation, Puppetry, Cyanotype
Artist Statement of Work
Tell us about your work (style, approach, philosophy, subject and/or theme):
As an intersectional feminist artist, my work has always focused on pushing back against shame. Specifically, the shame surrounding the body. Our culture uses guilt, embarrassment, exclusivity and insecurity as ways to make womxn smaller, quieter and isolated. When we feel alone, we can’t fight back against laws and a government that seeks to control our bodies.
I look at and research folklore, religion, movies, popular culture, erotic art and literature to find examples of women that are loud. When a body is too strange, too sexual, not functioning the way it “should”, too beautiful, too powerful-especially when that body presents itself as feminine-it was/is often labeled monstrous. Witches, sirens, fairies, harpies, banshees, monsters are all labels that have been attached to these people. This manipulation is seen clearly in the way contemporary religions took older goddess figures and transformed them. When they were not absorbed and converted into virgins (The Virgin of Guadalupe), they were demonized and portrayed as gateways to evil (Lilith).
My work creates worlds, objects, stories about and for powerful, embodied monsters to inhabit. They present alternative realities and dreamscapes for us to consider.
