Sarah Myers, 1980 | Figurative sculptor

Sarah Myers lives and works in Arizona.

As a child her fascination for the artwork in museums - and even for ancient artifacts - formed her feeling that art was the language of a world filled with splendor and possibility.

She continues this today with her love of human expressions, depicting heads, hands, movement, vitality in a range of mediums from line drawing and painting to ceramic sculpture.

"A vision of a brighter, larger universe can be caught in a face, in a single glance, or a single gesture; it's this I hope to capture and communicate, bringing it a lasting form".

- "The art of museums inspires me, as does atmospheric design. Since 2003 I often use ceramic clays from formulas invented by my sister Amy Myers - material I mix and knead up by hand".

- "My sculpture goes from dust to moist clay, then to a figure glowing white-hot in the kiln at degrees ranging from 1940-2305 degrees Fahrenheit... and forward to a sculpture that looks at you, that stands ready or falls asleep, that carries or dances".

- "The simple ballpoint pen is a friend too; charcoal, lino-block; digital media; anything that can express in light and shadow the personality, the vitality of a human being, the naivete of an animal, or the transient thought that needs a shape and a face".

- New and old, light and shadow, motion and stillness, all definite, intense, and ultimately responding to human life and desires – these are the artist's materials, the substance recorded by mind and eye before ever finding tangible shape in clay, on canvas, on paper.

- It is my hope that in my hands, as they become clear images and concrete objects, they also find their way as building-bricks of a structure expansive, bright and welcoming to the human soul".

Sarah Myers è un'artista autodidatta.

Le sue opere d'arte spaziano da semplici schizzi a carboncino, inchiostro o matita ad elaborate sculture figurative in ceramica.