SAGE ZARGARI
The Silhouette
oil paint, ink, and Yupo
50” x 27”

DESCRIPTION
The Silhouette illustrates how clothes, especially undergarments, have
intensely gendered connotations that the wearer is expected to conform to.
This artwork challenges and disrupts these expectations, jumbling together
“masculine” and “feminine” silhouettes, to tear apart the ways that we might
attempt to discern the unseen wearer. The restrictive boundaries of gender
are further broken by this artwork through a disregard for its substrate, with
physical yarn cascading down and off of the paper. Scribbles of texture are
carved into the artwork as well, exposing the white of the paper underneath,
synchronous with the message of the artwork carving away and exposing
the absurdity of gendered clothing as a whole.

Sage Zargari they/she/he

INSTA @artbysagez
WEBSITE https://nezargari.wixsite.com/sage-zargari-s-portf
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BIO

Sage Zargari is Cleveland based artist with a thematic focus on addiction, girlhood, and spirituality. She is currently pursuing her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing at the Cleveland Institute of Art. Her piece “Woman Smoking” appeared in the group exhibition Student Independent Exhibition 77’ in the Reinerburg Gallery at the Cleveland Institute of Art, in Cleveland (OH) in 2023. Also at CIA, Sage’s piece titled “mugshot” appeared at Bespoke, in the Student Alumni Gallery in 2024. She also worked with other artists to create a chalk piece for the Cleveland Museum of Arts annual Chalk fest in 2024, in Cleveland (OH). She was awarded the Board Honorable Mention at the previously mentioned SIE 77’. She is currently working with the Cleveland Institute of Art and Stella Maris to host meditation and drawing workshops for patients in recovery.

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