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Eternal Loop
Linoleum Cut, Acrylic, Monotype (Stretched on Canvas)
20"x25"
2025
My work examines the politics of housing, labor, and conflict that is inherent to the American city. I document histories and the built environment to share unknown narratives, and I am curious how urban planning affects my community. My recent work explores ways of making that typify domestic labor and are traditionally female: banner-making, needlepoint, open-work, patterning, quilting, and sewing. Engaging in these means of production serves to activate, realize, and archive their specific history. Trained as a printmaker, I’m interested in the democratic potential of print media and my ability to produce printing blocks, and therefore multiples, to create large-scale, multi-paneled and patterned works that use vibrant color.
Sage Dawson
@sage_dawson
Sage Dawson is an artist and curator whose work examines the politics of housing and domestic labor inherent to the American city. She teaches Printmaking at Washington University and is the Founder and Co-director at STNDRD (Granite City, Illinois) and NON STNDRD (Sauget, Illinois). Sage completed an MFA + Museum Studies minor at the University of New Mexico, and a BFA at Missouri State University.
Eternal Loop
Linoleum Cut, Acrylic, Monotype (Stretched on Canvas)
20"x25"
2025
My work examines the politics of housing, labor, and conflict that is inherent to the American city. I document histories and the built environment to share unknown narratives, and I am curious how urban planning affects my community. My recent work explores ways of making that typify domestic labor and are traditionally female: banner-making, needlepoint, open-work, patterning, quilting, and sewing. Engaging in these means of production serves to activate, realize, and archive their specific history. Trained as a printmaker, I’m interested in the democratic potential of print media and my ability to produce printing blocks, and therefore multiples, to create large-scale, multi-paneled and patterned works that use vibrant color.
Sage Dawson
@sage_dawson
Sage Dawson is an artist and curator whose work examines the politics of housing and domestic labor inherent to the American city. She teaches Printmaking at Washington University and is the Founder and Co-director at STNDRD (Granite City, Illinois) and NON STNDRD (Sauget, Illinois). Sage completed an MFA + Museum Studies minor at the University of New Mexico, and a BFA at Missouri State University.