Sadie Wechsler

These works represent a moment of questioning in my practice. Using a tool I had long put aside, the view camera, I am observing sunlight activating the emulsion on my film and the life cycles of the plants inside my frame.


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Sadie Wechsler (Seattle, WA) is an artist working primarily with photography. Wechsler received a BA from Bard College in 2007 and an MFA from Yale School of Art in 2013. Her work has been show nationally and internationally. In 2020 Wechsler and Pao Houa Her created a collaborative piece at King Street Station in Seattle, WA. She has been included in group shows at SAD gallery, Johalla Gallery, Aperture Gallery, Belfast School of Art, Photoville, and Newspace Center for Photography, and has had solo shows at DeSoto Gallery and Gallery 4Culture. Wechsler has received the Delivan grant from Bard College and the smArt Ventures Grant from the City of Seattle. She has been an artist in residence at Anderson Ranch Art Center and the Arctic Circle Expedition. In 2016, she self-published her first monograph Part I: Redo and her work can be found in the collections of the Yale University Library, the Hammer Art Museum, the Getty Research Institute and the King County Portable Collection. 


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