About

Rebecca Saylor Sack earned her MFA from Tyler School of Art at Temple University and BFA from The Cooper Union.

Sack’s artwork has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally including the Peabody Essex Museum (Salem, MA); Westbeth Gallery (New York, NY); Nicelle Beauchene Gallery (New York, NY); Gross McCleaf Gallery (Philadelphia, PA); Fette’s Gallery (Los Angeles, CA); and Silas Marder Gallery (Bridgehampton, NY); The Michener Art Museum (Doylestown, PA); West Chester University (West Chester, PA); Stockton University (Galloway, NJ); Kansas City Art Institute (Kansas City, KS); and internationally at the Finnish Museum of Natural History (Helsinki, Finland); National Art Museum of China, (Beijing, China); Nautelansko | Lieto Museum (Lieto, Finland); Galleria Glance (Torino, Italy); and Donn Roca Gallery (Odense, Denmark). She is a recipient of the Fleisher Wind Challenge, University of the Arts Grant for Creative Research & Innovation, and the Jacob K. Javits Fellowship from the United States Department of Education.

Her work is in the collection of the National Art Museum of China, Nautelansko | Lieto Museum, Alter Hall Collection, and Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, in addition to national and international private collections.

Sack served as an Associate Professor and Director of Fine Arts at the University of the Arts until 2024.

Statement

I mine anxieties of the corporeal body with the liquidity of paint. I am deeply fascinated by the ever-changing processes of growth, decay, and consumption visible in our environment – and the way our bodies and landscapes alike are consumed and remade.

My work is influenced by the traditions of floral still life and landscape painting, but also borrows from natural history’s cataloging gaze and the imaginative reach of science fiction. Material and color are invoked for their visceral ability to create sensations of seduction and repulsion, creating a space that is at once sumptuous and unsettling.  I seek a fragile equilibrium where beauty edges toward violence, where chaos and stability lean towards one another, always threatening to tip.