Before I was taught what made us different, I thought my brother and I were the same. The only difference between a doe and a buck was the antlers. As I grew, I noticed differences—in the way people spoke to us, in what was expected of us, in the questions we were asked. In what our futures were supposed to look like. The difference between the doe and the buck was still the antlers, but those antlers made one a trophy and the other venison.

Sarah Jentsch is an American artist who primarily creates paintings and drawings. Her work uses elements of fantasy and myth to explore the expectations of women in society, especially concerning fears of the bodily experiences of pregnancy and motherhood. Sarah creates worlds to express and control her emotions, embodying her experiences in images of dogs, tears, milk, blood, and an ever-growing language of symbols.

Sarah received her MFA at the school of Art, Art History and Design at the University of Nebraska Lincoln in 2022 and her BFA degree from Stephen F Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas in the fall of 2018. Currently, she is the Program Manager at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts at the University of Houston.

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painter • draftsman • ceramicist(?) • works on paper • reluctant internet participant • etc •

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SARAH JENTSCH