Sarah Marek

Multidisciplinary Artist

Sarah Marek is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice combines embroidery, textiles, painting, digital illustration, and 3D-printed sculpture to explore the relationship between the body and the self. Drawing from body horror and feminist craft traditions, Marek creates intimate forms that examine self-image and experiences of self-alienation within the female body. Their work brings soft, tactile materials woven with digitally fabricated forms, creating a tension between the handmade and the machine-made. Marek earned a B.S. in Visualization from Texas A&M University and is currently pursuing an M.F.A. in Visualization at Texas A&M. Their work has been exhibited at the James R. Reynolds Gallery, and they received Graduate Third Place in the 2026 Artovation Statewide Student Competition for Delicate Material.

Delicate Material
Dust Bin
Marbled Lily

Figure Drawings
Hand Embroidery
Digital Paintings

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Delicate Material

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Dust Bin

At the Langford Building, the main building for Visualization students at Texas A&M University, the stairs have this odd gap where one could look down from the top floor and see all the floors circling down to the basement. While looking down through that gap in-between classes, it struck me how easily that detail fades into the background and goes overlooked.

I started thinking about how that architectural feature mirrors how financial insecurity is often overlooked in day-to-day life. People don’t like thinking about how close they are to poverty, but some 10.6% of the United States is below the poverty line. An additional 5% or higher live within $830 of the poverty line in monthly income according to the United States Census Bureau.

“Dust Bin” is a sculpture of a person squeezed into a cramped box. It’s wedged in the gap between the stairs that first inspired it. Over time, as people walk by, it will accumulate dust and debris, which will fill the crevices of the 3D print, bringing an invisible figure into view. In this way, its being overlooked will slowly increase its visibility.

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