Sarah Ann Weber employs painting and drawing to create overgrown landscapes that are both verdant and putrefied, while confounding traditional expectations of the landscape genre. Rather than replicating the surface details of our natural surroundings, Weber’s marvelous evocations of nature concern themselves with the spiritual essence of the world, decentralizing the figure. By choreographing vegetation through her imaginative stylizations, the artist proposes that psychological and emotional worlds are as complex and as ripe for exploration as the one beyond our bodies. Weber’s all-over composition style results in works that are deliriously vibrant and feral, uncovering dualities of nature—as a source of beauty and innocence, equally entwined with aggression, and indifference.
Sarah Ann Weber (b. 1988, Chicago, IL) received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago and her MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Weber has exhibited her work in solo exhibitions at venues including Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA; 12.26, Dallas, TX; Club Pro, Los Angeles, CA; and The Franklin, Chicago, IL. Selected group exhibitions include Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco; MAUVE Gallery, Vienna, Austria; Greenpoint Terminal Gallery, Brooklyn; Hunter Shaw Fine Art, Los Angeles; Galerie Nord/Kunstverein Tiergarten, Berlin; Locust Projects, Miami; and Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago. In 2023 Weber will be an Artist-in-Residence at Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL and is preparing for a solo exhibition at SOCO Gallery, Charlotte, NC. She lives and works in Los Angeles.
![This image depicts an artwork by Sarah Ann Weber titled "La Monja Blanca." This artwork was created in 2022 and measures 60" x 192" [HxW] (152.4 x 487.68 cm). Its medium is not known.](https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Sarah-Ann-Weber_SW1122_1667330947.jpg)
![This image depicts an artwork by Sarah Ann Weber titled "Prairie State (Thistles)." This artwork was created in 2022 and measures Framed 41" x 52 ³⁄₄" x 2" [HxWxD] (104.14 x 133.99 x 5.08 cm); 38" x 50" [HxW] (96.52 x 127 cm). Its medium is Colored pencil on paper.](https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Sarah-Ann-Weber_SW1123_1667330952.jpg)
![This image depicts an artwork by Sarah Ann Weber titled "Suncatching." This artwork was created in 2021 and measures 22" x 30" [HxW] (55.88 x 76.2 cm). Its medium is Colored pencil on Arches, framed.](https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Sarah-Ann-Weber_SW1117_1667330963.jpg)
![This image depicts an artwork by Sarah Ann Weber titled "Monster in the garden." This artwork was created in 2020 and measures 55" x 105" [HxW] (139.7 x 266.7 cm). Its medium is Acrylic, vinyl and colored pencil on Arches, framed.](https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Sarah-Ann-Weber_SW1069_1667331039.jpg)
