Sara Roberts
Sara received her BFA in Sculpture from California State University Fullerton in 2017. After graduating, she participated in the Torpedo Factory Post-Grad Residency in Alexandria, Virginia. During this residency she further explored the boundaries of fiber as a medium in her art. After completing the residency, she accepted a position as the 3D Studio Manager for the Art Department at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles in 2019. While working at LMU, she found joy in working with higher education students and helping foster their artistic practice. In 2022 Sara accepted a Lab Assistant position for the Art & Architecture Department at Harold Washington College in Chicago.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
Sara Roberts is a Chicago based artist specializing in mold-making, casting, and textiles. Pairing vivid, malleable, and intricately woven fabrics with blunt and rigid cast elements, her work is a metaphorical juxtaposition of the strength and vulnerability of womanhood and the female body.
Sara received her BFA in Sculpture from California State University Fullerton in 2017. After graduating, she participated in the Torpedo Factory Post-Grad Residency in Alexandria, Virginia. During this residency she further explored the boundaries of fiber as a medium in her art. After completing the residency, she accepted a position as the 3D Studio Manager for the Art Department at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles in 2019. While working at LMU, she found joy in working with higher education students and helping foster their artistic practice. In 2022 Sara accepted a Lab Assistant position for the Art & Architecture Department at Harold Washington College in Chicago.
ARTIST’S STATEMENT
Sara Roberts is a Chicago based artist specializing in mold-making, casting, and textiles. Pairing vivid, malleable, and intricately woven fabrics with blunt and rigid cast elements, her work is a metaphorical juxtaposition of the strength and vulnerability of womanhood and the female body.
$780.00
Tulle, floral netting, foam egg, paint sculpture.
14x26x8"
The female body is a place of continual metamorphosis. Throughout a woman’s life, her body undergoes many evolutions of construction and reconstruction. These “womb” sculptures explore what can be argued as the most extraordinary bodily transformation: pregnancy and birth. Taken individually, these wombs are snapshots into the creation of life. As a whole, they show the other-worldly beauty and power it takes to create a society. This sculpture is the artist's 1st rendition.
$840.00
Tulle, floral netting, foam egg, paint sculpture.
18.50x32x9"
The female body is a place of continual metamorphosis. Throughout a woman’s life, her body undergoes many evolutions of construction and reconstruction. These “womb” sculptures explore what can be argued as the most extraordinary bodily transformation: pregnancy and birth. Taken individually, these wombs are snapshots into the creation of life. As a whole, they show the other-worldly beauty and power it takes to create a society. This sculpture is the artist's 2nd rendition.
$2,120.00
Tulle, floral netting, foam eggs, crystal beads (set of 3).
42x36x11"
The female body is a place of continual metamorphosis. Throughout a woman’s life, her body undergoes many evolutions of construction and reconstruction. These “womb” sculptures explore what can be argued as the most extraordinary bodily transformation: pregnancy and birth. Taken individually, these wombs are snapshots into the creation of life. As a whole, they show the other-worldly beauty and power it takes to create a society. This sculpture is the artist's 7th rendition and depicts the C-section process.
$850.00
Tulle, floral netting, foam egg, paint sculpture.
18x30.50x8"
The female body is a place of continual metamorphosis. Throughout a woman’s life, her body undergoes many evolutions of construction and reconstruction. These “womb” sculptures explore what can be argued as the most extraordinary bodily transformation: pregnancy and birth. Taken individually, these wombs are snapshots into the creation of life. As a whole, they show the other-worldly beauty and power it takes to create a society. This sculpture is the artist's 6th rendition.
$5,560.00
Tulle, floral netting sculpture.
60x96x40"
Larger-than-life fabric sculpture representing the beauty and otherworldliness of birth. Created by stitching hundreds of hand-made fabric leaves together.
Height and depth measurements depend on how high/low the sculpture is hung on the wall. Listed measurements reflect how the sculpture is depicted in these pictures.
$655.00
Tulle, sparkle mesh sculpture.
17x38x7"
While my sculptures appear to be heavily abstracted bodily images from afar, closer inspection reveals they are direct, sometimes explicit, references to female anatomy. By openly showcasing and celebrating the female body, my work serves to disrupt the notion that it is an enigmatic entity shrouded in shame. This sculpture is one of my most unambiguous representations of the most fundamental physical features of womanhood.
$630.00
Tulle, floral netting, crystal beads, and rhinestones sculpture.
15x19x6"
While my sculptures appear to be heavily abstracted bodily images from afar, closer inspection reveals they are direct, sometimes explicit, references to female anatomy. By openly showcasing and celebrating the female body, my work serves to disrupt the notion that it is an enigmatic entity shrouded in shame. This sculpture is one of my most unambiguous representations of the most fundamental physical features of womanhood.
$1,390.00
Tulle, floral netting sculpture.
36x36x8"
While my sculptures appear to be heavily abstracted bodily images from afar, closer inspection reveals they are direct, sometimes explicit, references to female anatomy. By openly showcasing and celebrating the female body, my work serves to disrupt the notion that it is an enigmatic entity shrouded in shame. This sculpture rests somewhere in-between ambiguous and overt in its physical/bodily representation of womanhood.
$350.00
Tulle, floral netting sculpture.
12x13x4"
The female body is a place of continual metamorphosis. Throughout a woman’s life, her body undergoes many evolutions of construction and reconstruction. These “womb” sculptures explore what can be argued as the most extraordinary bodily transformation: pregnancy and birth. Taken individually, these wombs are snapshots into the creation of life. As a whole, they show the other-worldly beauty and power it takes to create a society. This sculpture is the artist's 13th rendition.
$380.00
Tulle, floral netting sculpture.
13x16.50x4"
The female body is a place of continual metamorphosis. Throughout a woman’s life, her body undergoes many evolutions of construction and reconstruction. These “womb” sculptures explore what can be argued as the most extraordinary bodily transformation: pregnancy and birth. Taken individually, these wombs are snapshots into the creation of life. As a whole, they show the other-worldly beauty and power it takes to create a society. This sculpture is the artist's 12th rendition.
$380.00
Tulle, floral netting sculpture.
13x16x5"
The female body is a place of continual metamorphosis. Throughout a woman’s life, her body undergoes many evolutions of construction and reconstruction. These “womb” sculptures explore what can be argued as the most extraordinary bodily transformation: pregnancy and birth. Taken individually, these wombs are snapshots into the creation of life. As a whole, they show the other-worldly beauty and power it takes to create a society. This sculpture is the artist's 11th rendition.
$720.00
Tulle, floral netting sculpture.
14x26x6.50"
The female body is a place of continual metamorphosis. Throughout a woman’s life, her body undergoes many evolutions of construction and reconstruction. These “womb” sculptures explore what can be argued as the most extraordinary bodily transformation: pregnancy and birth. Taken individually, these wombs are snapshots into the creation of life. As a whole, they show the other-worldly beauty and power it takes to create a society. This sculpture is the artist's 10th rendition.