Sarah Lee

SARAH LEE is a Bay Area–based artist working primarily in sculpture and painting. She earned a BFA in Illustration Design at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, and an MFA at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. Sarah has taught at SAE Expression College in Emeryville and will be teaching this fall at Los Medanos College in Pittsburg.

Eggshells are fragile empty houses that are abandoned after birth; they become lifeless and no longer serve a purpose. Sarah uses eggshells in her art to create, upcycle, and give another life to the material. Eggshells and the scales of reptiles are similar in that they both provide a thin layer of protection, acting as a shield, but a vulnerable and fragile one. Sarah creates sculptures of animals that reveal fragility, vulnerability, insecurity, human emotions, awkwardness, odd self-inflicting behaviors, adaptation, and survival. She crossbreeds Charles Darwin’s theory of “Survival of the Fittest” in order to enforce the power of adaptation and survival, and to amplify under-represented emotions.

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