Sarah Best

"Ultimately what I hope to create is a moment where the inside and outside collapse, allowing closer consideration of self and other."


The works of Sarah Best exist at once in physical reality, and suspended in a place of memory and imagination within the mind and body. Best experiments with ideas of corporeal space and the figuration of emotion through gestures of the body, revealing emotional truths that lie beneath our day-to-day interactions. Her works contain inner self-reflections that render visible a paradox: the infinite and continually changing proportions of consciousness, and the finite physical laws of the body. The result is a stark confrontation with the vulnerability and solitude of the human experience.

BIOGRAPHY
Born Anchorage, Alaska, 1980
Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York

2013- School of Visual Arts, BFA with honors, Manhattan, NY
2007-2009- Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle, WA

AWARDS
2013- Stacey Sussman Cavrell Traveling Fellowship Award
2010-2013- Silas H. Rhodes Scholarship Award

Roq La Rue Gallery Presents: Supernatural
A solo exhibition opening February 4th, 2023
www.roqlarue.com