About

Sarah Wondrack is an artist based in Detroit, Michigan and originally from New Jersey, just outside Asbury Park. She has a BFA in Fiber from the University of the Arts and an MFA in Fiber from Cranbrook Academy of Art. She has a background as a scenic artist for production companies in New York that focused on films, window displays and fashion events. She is open to collaborations, commissions and freelance fabrication work. Sarah currently teaches in the Fashion Design and Merchandising department at Wayne State University.

I investigate the relationship between the internal and the external and how the mind and body are interdependent. By pushing the dualities of grotesque and beauty, I alter the human silhouette and make way to more possibilities. Through material exploration, I create surfaces that have inherent qualities that affect the wearer while simultaneously affecting its environment.   By interpreting the body as a means of communication, I strive to push the limits of what the body is capable of. Using emotion as hierarchy, past experiences unfold through making. I am interested in how fashion moves beyond a representational meaning of garments, beyond the familiar contours of the human body and beyond fixed forms of identity. When we can think about the body in a state of growth and adaptability, we can choose to be resilient and can relate to different ways of thinking about human identity.

sarjohannaw@gmail.com

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