Sarah Rossiter is an American artist known for her photography in New York City the 1990’s. She has had solo shows in New York, Los Angeles and internationally in Spain, Switzerland, and Italy.
Initially focused on the objectification of the female body in relation to the arc of art historical movements such as color field painting and feminist performance art, her work also developed a personal investigation into the psychodramatic relationship between subject and viewer, image and producer, audience and narrator.
In 1993 Rossiter showed her work at Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York City, and was the co-founder of ArtClub 2000, a collaborative artist group, in dialogue with art dealer Colin DeLand of American Fine Arts Co. In 1997 she founded Velocity Gallery, and exhibited women artists in her Williamsburg, Brooklyn garage space.
In 2000, Rossiter moved to California where she made photographs of herself in nature and staged settings, further examining the photographic image as a space of creation and dissolution. After witnessing the attacks in NY on September 11th, her work eventually shifted and she began to negate the figure in her images, seeking instead to evoke an energy of time and place disposed. Reflecting a shift in awareness she became interested in egoless expression and the ability of images to hold memories and energy. She photographed portals and crystals, bodies of water and flowering trees, interested in their visual power to transmit consciousness.
Since 2019, she has made work in different locations every year – from Los Angeles to New York, Hawaii to Mexico, and now Paris – the paintings made during this time reflect the energy and experiences unique to each location. Her ongoing investigations in movement, color and the physical qualities of paint are guided by the practice of non-attachment, chance experimentation, and flow.