Sara Schneckloth:Open Gestures:

FAB Gallery is pleased to host an exhibition by artist Sara Schneckloth. The exhibition will be on view February 18, 2009-March13, 2009. The Artist will be on campus to discuss her work on Monday, March 2nd at 1:00 p.m. in the Visual and Performing Arts Building's Barbara A Vaughn Auditorium. Please join us for this exciting event!
A 2006 graduate of the Master of Fine Arts program in painting and drawing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Sara Schneckloth has just joined the Art department at the University of South Carolina as an assistant professor of drawing. Known for large-scale, bold drawings that explore the relationship between our memories and our physical selves, Schneckloth has won numerous grants, fellowships and other honors, and has exhibited her work as far away as South Africa.
Schneckloth’s work deals primarily with imagined microbiological systems rendered on a macro- scale. She envisions and creates cells, organs, fluids, and tissues, and seeks to assemble the elements into new systems of organic relationship and connection. Schneckloth works in a variety of mediums, primarily in drawing and painting, and looks for ways to take drawing beyond its traditional definition of “mark on paper.” She integrates traditional techniques with non-traditional mediums and approaches to create large installation pieces of fantastic design.
Of her work, Schneckloth says, "I believe that the act of drawing is a way of residing in multiple states of awareness, of present, past, future of what one is, has been, and hopes to become of the physical, the mental, and the formal. I draw as a way to see more deeply, both inside and out, and to elevate the act of seeing to a process that is fully engaging of both body and mind."
For more information about Schneckloth, and to view more of her work, visit www.saraschneckloth.com.