Recent Work / Exhibitions
2021 - 2022
Mobile exhibition project featuring new works installed within and surrounding the pop-up camper in which the artist and her family lived and traveled during the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic.
November 13, 2021
DORF
A reimagining of Leslie Labowitz Myths of Rape (1977) forty-four years after it was first performed in Los Angeles. Here, the original piece is transformed to raise awareness of contemporary concerns around rape, sexual assault, women's rights, and activism.
August 5, 2017, Co-Lab Projects
Batiks layered with vibrant, contemporary hieroglyphs depicting the human experience. Our tendency towards violence and destruction, community and tribalism, is framed by the nature from which we rose.
February 28 – March 14, 2020
Cloudtree Studios
Thread Count is a show dedicated to fabric art by five female Austin-based artists. Sara Vanderbeek’s body of work explores the trials of dealing with mental illness in the American health care system.
🌴🌴🌴 (Palm Tree x3)
Sara Vanderbeek and Jenn Wilson
May 5 - June 3, 2017, ICOSA
Vanderbeek’s paintings both celebrate and deconstruct the textile design, landscapes and colors of tropical culture, while Wilson’s paintings of Arcadia and mythic utopias explore the darker side of the “ideal” through an art historical lens.
June 12, 2018, Freight Gallery, San Antonio, TX
Multimedia exhibition chronicling the history of sneakers from athletic equipment to fashion and cultural phenomenon.
Aloha Shirts
2015-2016
”Rather than patterns in a multiple, Vanderbeek has isolated the pattern, then isolated the decisions of the wearer/owner, and has begun to conceptually craft a likeness of the person that once owned the shirt itself.”
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