Sarah Butsavage is an American-born painter living and working in France. Born outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, She received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 2012.

After graduating, while working with acrylic and oil pastels in her Brooklyn studio, Sarah began to employ blocks of color that were destined to be drawn upon. It was here that the organic pull toward both drawing and painting came together onto canvas. Her work, then and now, explores the major questions of what it is “to be.” Her paintings are direct responses to questions such as “what is it to be a woman ?” or “what is it to feel the ambiguity of life ?” or most recently, with her ‘Monuments’ series “what is it to acknowledge our impermanence ?”

She says, “I enjoy trying to re-create the feeling of ‘the dizziness of freedom’ (Kierkegaard). It’s a strange state that we live in as both mind and body, subject and object, tiny dot in the universe and the main character of our own lives. We’re stuck in a flowing river of time, bound to a body that wilts and weathers. I’m attempting to illustrate that kaleidoscopic feeling of existence.”