Photography by Katie Reeder

About

BIO

Sarah Finkle is a New York City based fiber artist. She received her Bachelor's Degree in Studio Art at Skidmore College, with a concentration in textiles and sculpture and her Masters in Fine Arts at Listaháskóli Ísland in Reykjavík, Iceland. Along with exhibiting her works in New York City and abroad, she has further explored textiles within scenic design, creating interactive fiber installations for theater and dance productions including The Shapes We Make with Our Bodies (2017), Ghost Women (2018), and You Sound Like a Girl (2018-2019). She has participated in artist residency programs at Textílmiðstöð in Blönduós, Iceland, the Textile Arts Center in Brooklyn, NY, the Eileen Fisher Makers Space in Brooklyn, NY, and the Dragon´s Egg in Mystic, CT.

STATEMENT

The work begins with the body, in process, experience, form and structure. An exploration of space and a space for exploration. A physical representation of the interior self/space/mind. The form is an outcome of this internal process, created from the inside out, as a personal search for boundaries - boundaries that place you in your body, that physically and mentally orient you to the limitations of your surrounding. A space to be: to discover and to escape internally; ever changing, created, deconstructed, reconfigured. An ongoing search for pause.