Sarah Belknap & Joseph Belknap
“We began collaborating when we got married in the summer of 2008. We realized in our own solo work that we weren’t taking many risks, so we made a point to try anything and everything in our art making. We test and experiment, and all of the failed ideas and projects drive our practice to new levels.”
Performance, sculpture, video and drawing
How everything relates to everything else -- the environment, news, earthquakes, technology, old westerns, art theory, parents, animals, children, each other
Artful Networks: Artists at the Bolt Residency, our high school students, craft fairs and design stores, the School of the Art Institute
Sarah Belknap and Joseph Belknap are Chicago-based artists and designers (as well as married couple and collaborators). Both Sarah and Joseph Belknap received their MFA’s from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2010, 2009, respectively) and are the founders of their own design firm, Iamhome.
The Belknap’s make work that is in the world and about the world. They are interested in opening ways of looking at the environment we live in to explore their own personal understandings and doubts regarding fundamental questions of existence. Their work is fueled by landscape, what they see on the news, the depressing neighborhoods they drive through to get home, earthquakes, technology, old westerns and action movies, art theory, their parents, animals, children’s books and each other.
The Belknap’s most recent exhibitions include: The Precession, (Rebecca Horn Fingers for Mark Jeffrey and Judd Morrissey) at the Hyde Park Art Center, 2011, Chicago; Action!, Chicago Art Department, 2009, Chicago; and Disabling Conditions, Site Unseen, Chicago Cultural Center, 2009, Chicago. Sarah and Joseph were recently accepted into BOLT Residency, a year-long artist residency and initiative of the Chicago Artists’ Coalition.
