Sarah Wertzberger is an artist and designer working across mediums of weaving, ceramics, and painting, and specifically, her weaving practice spans hand, industrial, and digital weaving. Wertzberger explores ideas of play, color interaction, and the tensions that exist at the intersections of art, design, craft, technology, and DIY. Embraces intuition, her work is expressive and provisional as she allows for the process of making itself steers the work’s outcomes. Wertzberger received her MFA at the Rhode Island School of Design and her BFA at the Maryland Institute College of Art. She has exhibited at Field Projects (New York, NY), The Oregon College of Art and Craft (Portland, OR), The Design Center (New York, NY), and has been a resident at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts (Deer Isle, ME), The Weaving Mill (Chicago, IL), and AZ WEST - Encampment Residency (Joshua Tree, CA). Wertzberger lives and works in Portland, OR.
Photos by Mario Gallucci