In her paintings, Sarah Faux merges the seemingly disparate strands of figurative representation and gestural abstraction to construct sensual situations where raw female bodies drift in a state of liminality. Faux crops her subjects to focus on specific body parts, a compositional strategy that pulls the audience into an intimate, first-person perspective. Unable to identify a pronounced figure, we find ourselves gazing into flattened fields of color, parsing the faintly discernible scenes with a curious grin.
Sarah Faux (b. 1986, Boston) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Faux received her MFA in Painting from the Yale School of Art in 2015. She received a joint BA/BFA from Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design in 2009. Faux has had solo exhibitions at Capsule Shanghai (Shanghai, China), M+B (Los Angeles, USA) Cuevas Tilleard (New York, USA), Thierry Goldberg Gallery (New York, USA) and at Stems Gallery (Brussels, Belgium). Faux's work has been exhibited in group shows nationally and internationally, including Lyles & King Gallery (New York, USA), Blanc Art Space (Beijing, China), How Museum (Shanghai, China), Loyal Gallery (Stockholm, Sweden), Thomas Erben Gallery (New York, NY) and Fredericks & Freiser (New York, USA). Faux has participated in several residencies including Yaddo (New York, USA), Cuevas Tilleard Projects (Lamu, Kenya) and at the Swatch Art Peace Hotel (Shanghai, China).
Her paintings have been written about in Cultured Magazine, i-D Vice, artcritical, Surface Magazine, Modern Painters, The Wall Street Journal, Hyperallergic and Artsy, among others.
