Sarah Schlesinger

Sarah Schlesinger (b. 1988, Wynnewood, PA) paints obstructed landscapes on an intimate scale, using bushes, hedgerows, and other barriers to create scenes filled with metaphor and mystery. Employing a monochromatic palette and rigorous perspectival structure, her works investigate the psychology of looking, positioning viewers at the threshold between revelation and concealment. Shadows, false symmetries, and dissolving forms heighten her exploration of perception, prompting sustained attention and reflection on what may lie just beyond view.

Schlesinger received her BFA from Taylor University in 2010 and her MFA from the New York Academy of Art in 2015. She is a recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant and the Chubb Postgraduate Fellowship at the New York Academy of Art (2015–16). Recent solo exhibitions include Eye Level at Huxley-Parlour, London (2024). Her work has also been exhibited in New York, Miami, Oslo, Brussels, Mexico City, and beyond. Schlesinger currently lives and works in New York.