“Maybe there are no answers. Maybe that’s why there are artists—to pose the question.”
-Mickalene Thomas

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Sarah Fagerman is a graduate of Michigan State University. She received both a B.A. from the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities (RCAH) and a B.F.A in Studio Art.

Sarah is passionate about and dedicated to the power of the arts to connect individuals, create dialogue, and cross cultural and social boundaries. Her work is informed most generally by the multifaceted concept of identity, specifically in terms of intersectionality—where no singular existence or experience prevails. Sarah is interested in popular and social culture and the way these are affected by (and affect) politics and normative social narratives, especially as these relate to gender and sexuality.

The work is a call and response to contemporary culture as it is informed and shaped by the multiple and constant streams of media and information systems; it is the visual product of mapping and constructing meaning through these various filters of viewing and acting in the world. The resulting images, taking the form of paintings, drawings, and collages, are abstractions built out of layering and fragmentation processes: constellations and permutations that create new systems and understandings—interrogations of convention and order.