Sarah Ann Weber I Know Her, 2025, Anat Ebgi, Installation view
About
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.
Sarah Ann Weber (b. 1988, Chicago, IL) received her MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and her BFA from the School of the Art Institute, Chicago. Weber has exhibited her work in solo exhibitions at Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles; 12.26, Dallas, TX; Club Pro, Los Angeles; The Franklin, Chicago; and a two-person exhibition with Allison Hall at SOCO Gallery, Charlotte, NC. Selected group exhibitions include Stems Gallery, Paris, France; 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.
Weber’s work has been acquired by public and private collections including the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Jacksonville, FL; Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA; United States Department of State, US Embassy in Guatemala City; Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art, Suzhou, China; among others. Her work is currently included in a museum exhibition, Art in Bloom at the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, Jacksonville, FL. Weber lives and works in Chicago, IL.
Sarah Ann Weber More windswept, more grateful, 2025
Watercolor and colored pencil on prepared linen over panel, framed
49 ¹⁄₂ x 121 ¹⁄₂ inches / 125.73 x 308.61 cm
Sarah Ann Weber I dwell within my heart as if inside a hollow tree, 2025
Watercolor and colored pencil on prepared linen over panel, framed
73 ¹⁄₂ x 37 ¹⁄₂ inches / 186.7 x 95.2 cm
Sarah Ann Weber For each leaf and every tree, 2025
Watercolor and colored pencil on prepared linen over panel, framed
37 ¹⁄₂ x 49 ¹⁄₂ inches / 95.2 x 125.7 cm
Domestic Life Dissolves into Blooming Gardens in Sarah Ann Weber’s Works
Within these lush atmospheres, splotches of watercolor and vivid florals subsume any definitive boundaries. Drawing on the traditions of window paintings and portraits depicting mother and child, the artist nests architectural structures and tender, familial moments within her largely botanical scenes. - Grace Ebert
In “Minerva’s Web,” Sarah Ann Weber’s 18 colored-pencil and watercolor works are hung in a single row that wraps around three of the room’s four walls at Gallery 12.26, windows into a lush world that pulses with life. —Benjamin Lima
Sarah Ann Weber’s Paintings Depict Blossoming and Decay
When Sarah Ann Weber was learning how to draw and paint, she developed a love for biomorphic abstraction. The contours found in the natural landscape—the cellular DNA of plants, the swirls of seashells—provided unexpected inspiration. “I always gravitated towards books that had photographs of fossils and other organic shapes. So many organic forms, especially on the cellular level, are abstract. When I moved to California nine years ago, I saw so much abstraction in the physical landscape.” —Monica Uszerowicz
Sarah Ann Weber’s show almost reads as an extended version of Sir John Everett Millais’s Ophelia, albeit with more psychedelia. In one work, I would give you some violets (2022), a blue skeleton lays on its back amid a menagerie of foliage. —William Saradet
Beauty remains an uncomfortable territory for many contemporary artists, which makes the boldness of Sarah Ann Weber’s aesthetics all the more compelling. — Daniel Gerwin
Florals become a maximalist patina that engulf the artworks in"Strong Blossoming Thing Forever." The female figures set into these edge-to-edge tropical motifs are lithe and stoic, like classical sculptures pulled out of art history texts. — Lindsay Preston Zappas
Strong Blossoming Thing Forever, An Exhibition of New Works
Rather than replicating the surface details of our environment, Weber’s marvelous evocations of nature concern themselves with the spiritual essence of the world, decentralizing the figure, while treating landscape as something of a fairy tale character in itself.
Weber indulges in a vein of focused, maximal surreality throughout. If not cartoons, Weber’s varying, vibrant Prismacolor forms and tones seem at least to have their roots in the rich values of an analog television image, one playing nature docs and gardening shows on a loop. — Aaron Horst
Bursting with color and alien shapes, Sarah Ann Weber’s mixed-media works use colored pencil and sometimes watercolor to create scenes that are densely populated with surreal plants and ghostly figures. —Shannon Lee
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The Los Angeles-based artist [Sarah Anne Weber] works primarily with watercolor and colored pencil on paper, as in this recent work on offer at LA’s Anat Ebgi Gallery. Focusing on floral, exotic, and invented organic forms, she bestows her compositions with a distinct sense of psychedelic dreaminess that combines ’70s nostalgia with our culture’s current obsession with all things witchy. —Eileen Kinsella
"Although my artwork has never been overtly political, I work intuitively and from an emotional place, so my practice is undoubtedly affected by how I feel about everything that is going on in the world." —Sarah Ann Weber
More Must See Los Angeles Shows | Jason Bailer Losh & Sarah Ann Weber
Now on view at Anat Ebgi are two not-to-miss shows. The first is “Three Holes in a Parachute”—Jason Bailer Losh’s newest body of work, informed by a skillset of carpentry and craftsmanship passed down to Losh by his father. The second is Sarah Ann Weber’s “Tropical Disease”—an exhibition of new drawings influenced by the artist’s memories, family archives, and the nature of California. —Pearl Fontaine
"By creating environments, I am able to explore gender, decoration and beauty. Focusing on the floral and exotic, my highly detailed, dense compositions become places where growth and entropy, figure and ground, intertwine." —Sarah Ann Weber
Sarah Ann Weber: Scenic View at Club Pro, Los Angeles
The color pencil drawings are the true revelations of an already-strong show. These quite large works on paper choreograph a deeply impossible amount of detail and are nothing short of breathtaking in their strange riots of omnivorous beauty. Though on paper these are in no way sketches or preparations for the canvases; rather they are their counterparts, fully realized unto themselves. —Shana Nys Dambrot
![This image depicts an artwork by Sarah Ann Weber titled "Apple blossom." This artwork was created in 2025 and measures Framed 24 ³⁄₄" x 32 ³⁄₄" [HxW] (62.87 x 83.19 cm). Its medium is Watercolor and colored pencil on paper.](https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Sarah-Ann-Weber_SW1174_1765061525.jpg)
![This image depicts an artwork by Sarah Ann Weber titled "More windswept, more grateful." This artwork was created in 2025 and measures 49 ¹⁄₂" x 121 ¹⁄₂" [HxW] (125.73 x 308.61 cm). Its medium is Watercolor and colored pencil on prepared linen over panel, framed.](https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Sarah-Ann-Weber_SW1168_1763505610.jpg)
![This image depicts an artwork by Sarah Ann Weber titled "Arcanum IX." This artwork was created in 2025 and measures 49 ¹⁄₂" x 121 ¹⁄₂" [HxW] (125.73 x 308.61 cm). Its medium is Watercolor and colored pencil on prepared linen over panel, framed.](https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Sarah-Ann-Weber_SW1167_1763504045.jpg)
![This image depicts an artwork by Sarah Ann Weber titled "I dwell within my heart as if inside a hollow tree." This artwork was created in 2025 and measures 73 ¹⁄₂" x 37 ¹⁄₂" [HxW] (186.69 x 95.25 cm). Its medium is Watercolor and colored pencil on prepared linen over panel, framed.](https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Sarah-Ann-Weber_SW1170_1763505645.jpg)
![This image depicts an artwork by Sarah Ann Weber titled "For each leaf and every tree." This artwork was created in 2025 and measures 37 ¹⁄₂" x 49 ¹⁄₂" [HxW] (95.25 x 125.73 cm). Its medium is Watercolor and colored pencil on prepared linen over panel, framed.](https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Sarah-Ann-Weber_SW1165_1763505677.jpg)
![This image depicts an artwork by Sarah Ann Weber titled "The era of small pleasures." This artwork was created in 2025 and measures Framed 32 ³⁄₄" x 24 ³⁄₄" [HxW] (83.19 x 62.87 cm). Its medium is Watercolor and colored pencil on paper.](https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/Sarah-Ann-Weber_SW1176_1763505705.jpg)
![This image depicts an artwork by Sarah Ann Weber titled "Morningside." This artwork was created in 2023 and measures Unframed 30" x 22" [HxW] (76.2 x 55.88 cm). Its medium is Watercolor and colored pencil on paper, framed.](https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Sarah-Ann-Weber_SW1147_1695943653.jpg)
![This image depicts an artwork by Sarah Ann Weber titled "Wild Glint." This artwork was created in 2023 and measures Framed 25" x 33" [HxW] (63.5 x 83.82 cm); Unframed 22" x 30" [HxW] (55.88 x 76.2 cm). Its medium is Watercolor and colored pencil on paper.](https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Sarah-Ann-Weber_SW1139_1680716904.jpg)
![This image depicts an artwork by Sarah Ann Weber titled "Flowstones." This artwork was created in 2023 and measures Framed 41" x 53" [HxW] (104.14 x 134.62 cm); Unframed 38" x 50" [HxW] (96.52 x 127 cm). Its medium is Acrylic, oil pastel and colored pencil on paper.](https://anatebgi.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Sarah-Ann-Weber_SW1138_1680716907.jpg)
![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)
