Sarah Paul

Artist and educator

Exhibition: Fiber Chamber Studies

November 20 - December 22, 2024 Burton D. Morgan  

Fiber Meets Found Object in Sarah Paul’s “The School of Fiber Chambers” Exhibit

Artist Sarah Paul’s “The School of Fiber Chambers” showcases her ambitious integration of wet-felted wool with locally sourced found objects, secondhand fabrics, and video screens. Throughout Paul’s residency, she has let loose the reins on her former methods of construction to embrace new techniques and strategies of fabrication. The result is a surreal fusion of fiber with household objects and electronic media that establishes a simultaneously warm and strange tension. “The School of Fiber Chambers” exhibit creates a playful yet meditative atmosphere filled with whimsical juxtapositions in form and material.

“I'm a transdisciplinary artist striving to balance socio-political content with irresistibly seductive form. Through media installation and objects, I’m addressing the precarious state of being out of body in order to consider how we manage physical and mental trauma. The Akron Soul Train Residency has afforded me the time to focus on new directions in the physical structures of the Fiber Chambers body of work. The pace of a professional art practice can set you up with a continuous calendar of deadlines for works that you already know and understand deeply. With this residency, my studio has again become a frenetic laboratory of experimentation and risk. The opportunity to show and discuss this new work with an audience almost immediately after producing it is truly unique and invaluable. ” – Sarah Paul

About the Artist Sarah Paul:

Sarah Paul is an artist based in Cleveland, Ohio. She holds a BS in Mathematics from the University at Albany, and an MFA in Fine Art from the University at Buffalo. Paul is a recipient of several awards including the SPACES Satellite Fund, the Ohio Arts Council Individual Award for Excellence in Media Art, and a Creative Workforce Fellowship granted from Cuyahoga Arts and Culture. She has exhibited at the Riffe Gallery, the Akron Art Museum, the Sculpture Center Cleveland, and the Albright-Knox Gallery. Paul’s video work screens nationally and abroad and her art has been acquired by Progressive Art Collection and private estates. Sarah Paul is a Professor of Sculpture and Expanded Media at the Cleveland Institute of Art.