Saba Besier’s sculptural formations are both a celebration of oceanic organisms as well as an acknowledgment of the ecological trauma that is disrupting ecosystems as they disappear. Recent work draws attention to the ocean as a system at risk, struggling to keep pace with human-caused conditions of climate change.

The artist subscribes to the Bauhaus sensibility of combining intense relationship with the process of craft and Fine Art. Each work draws on a hard-earned expertise in the techniques of slab building, throwing, hand sculpting, metallurgy, and alchemy.

Besier is a Pakistani-born, American artist and holds an MFA from Pratt Institute in New York. She is currently based in Dallas, TX and has been an exhibiting artist for 25 years; showing her work both nationally and internationally.

Generously sponsored by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, McGinnis Family Fund of Communities Foundation of Texas, and Kathy Webster in memory of Charles H. Webster, with additional support from Jay & Barbra Clack, Joe & Susie Clack, Jenny & Rob Dupree, and Dr. Larry Wolz