Sally Saul (b. 1946, Albany, New York) is a contemporary ceramicist. Often working from personal memory, Sally Saul’s practice is focused on small scale ceramic sculptures. Her work is imbued with humor and humanity. Through human and animal figures, Saul creates personal yet arresting characters and vignettes which explore themes related to the complexities of daily life. Anchored by a longstanding interest in personal memory, Saul’s sculptures evoke feelings associated with time and place to explore patterns of remembrance. Her work has engaged with themes such as gender, innocence, mortality, and the human condition.
Born in 1946, Sally Saul grew up in Ithaca New York. She earned a B.A from the University of Colorado and later graduated from San Francisco State University in 1973 with an M.A in American Literature. While living in San Francisco, she was exposed to the Bay Area visual arts movement. Informed by her time in San Francisco, Saul’s formal practice, and particular focus in ceramics, took shape while living in Austin, TX, where she undertook studies in ceramics at the University of Texas.
Saul has been the subject of numerous presentations, including recent solo exhibitions at Venus Over Manhattan, New York; Pioneer Works, Brooklyn; Almine Rech Gallery, Paris; Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York; Redbud Gallery, Houston; and Trans Avant Garde Gallery, Austin. Her work is frequently included in group exhibitions, such as the recent show Funk You Too! at the Museum of Art and Design, New York and Clay Pop! at jeffery Deitch Gallery, New York; and previously with Venus Over Los Angeles, Los Angeles; Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield; Cuevas/Tilleard Projects, New York; and CANADA, New York. In 2017, her New York solo debut, “Sally Saul: Knit of Identity,” was reviewed by The New York Times. Saul lives and works in Germantown, New York.
dallas contemporary is pleased to present who’s afraid of cartoony figuration?, opening april 3, 2024. the multi-dimensional group exhibition, curated by adjunct curator alison m. gingeras, presents works by artists karolina jabłońska, sally saul, tabboo! and umar rashid that dare to mix the levity of cartoons, comics, and commercial illustration with some of the most pressing socio-political subjects of our day.
At 77, the artist’s clay sculptures are fiercer than ever.
Here, we focus on eight artists who criticize the hierarchies that delegate female ceramicists and their work to the periphery.
The rebellious painter and subversive sculptor share a renovated studio in their upstate New York compound, where each serves as the other’s champion.
Venus Over Manhattan, a blue-chip New York gallery that has helped boost under-recognized artists like Joan Brown and Joseph E. Yoakum, has added the sculptor Sally Saul to its roster.
Sculptor Sally Saul joins Rail Editor-at-Large Jason Rosenfeld for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading from Julien Poirier.
A dynamic new exhibition at New York’s Jeffrey Deitch gallery showcases clay’s delightfully amorphous present and future.
Francie Bishop Good, an artist herself, can’t resist adding to the collection she and her husband have amassed.
Sally Saul’s exhibition “Blue Hills, Yellow Tree,” opened at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn.
ARTnews took a look around Sally and Peter Saul's shared studio.
In Sally Saul's Together (2017), two happy polar bears stand side by side, holding hands. They look content (if a little befuddled), ready to face whatever the future might bring.
Sally Saul makes sculptures that are funny, sweet, and tender – states we are not likely to encounter in art or even in life.