Artist Statement
Things that interest me in the visual realm tend to revolve around the human body. In describing it and exploring it, I generally approach it from the surface. However, this view has proven to have its limitations in a truly representing the human condition. Disease, parasites and viruses are my favorite things to look at and render. I attempt to consider the figure from the inside out. By rendering its ailments and afflictions, I feel that I can produce a more accurate portrayal. Most of the studies have been chosen on their aesthetics. Some have been manipulated, staged.
"What is the outside of an organic nature, if not the eternally changing appearance of the inside?"
-Goethe

Bio
Rachel Sager received her BFA at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, Pa, though much her studies have been conducted in the studios of Florence, Italy, Edinburgh, Scotland and San Francisco, CA. Sager was featured in a PBS Full-Length documentary on Chinese art, “Sketching the Silk Road,” recently picked up by the American Public Television National Distributor.