ARTIST STATEMENT
I embrace recycling and collaboration in my current art practice. For me this means using available materials such as donated old house paint that would otherwise go to the landfill. It also can mean using abandoned or donated artworks from other artists (“Monster Eyes”) to create something new, incorporating the previous artist’s hand in the new work.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Sara Peak Convery was born and raised in the middle of Iowa. Her earliest conscious creative medium was fabric, using her mother’s sewing machine to make things that sometimes exceeded the line of practicality. In college, she photographed and painted herself and her family, documenting the family home and dynamics as part of her senior project “Being At Home” at University of Iowa. Sara completed her MFA at University of Illinois at Chicago and made Chicago her home. She worked in the consumer photography and video industry for a number of years before deciding to embark on the film that became “I Never Said I Wasn’t Happy”(2013). Since 2014, Convery has actively exhibited her artwork in the greater Chicagoland area and beyond. She became a lifetime member of Woman Made Gallery in 2019, in honor and memory of Mary Ellen Croteau. Convery also established Slacks Window Gallery in 2019 in the front windows of her studio in the Gladstone Park neighborhood in Chicago.
© Sara Peak Convery