NAME: sara wight
BIRTH PLACE:
BIOGRAPHY
Sara Wight was born and raised in northeastern Pennsylvania. She received her BFA in Photography from Kutztown University in Pennsylvania and went on to receive her MFA in Photography and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Sara has exhibited her work in New York and throughout the United States at venues such as Whitebox, Plus Ultra Gallery, David Allen Gallery and Nexus Gallery in New York, the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Frasier Gallery in Washington D.C, and Union Street Gallery in Chicago, among others. While she has worked in various mediums, photography remains her focus. She currently lives in Brooklyn.
In her latest series, Beyond the Horizon, Sara creates atmospheric yet intimate photographs where the relationship between human life and nature appears delicate and interconnected. Inspired after her father’s death due to a lengthy battle with cancer, Sara attempts to understand the fragility of human life within the context of the natural world. Beyond the Horizon is comprised of 20” x 24” photographic prints that revel in nature’s beauty and mystique. Ever-changing cloud formations are captured as they appeared at a single moment of time before that form was lost and replaced by another. Buildings, wires and fences are temporarily suspended in their current man-made form, destined to return to the earth. Small human figures are neither masters of nor intruders upon the landscape they inhabit. Simply another element of nature, their existence is in a constant state of flux. These photographs reveal that only by viewing these elements together can we begin to make sense of the complex and cyclical relationship between human life and nature.
