Tara Sawrikar

Selected artwork

Material, nature, and environmental storytelling.

Mixed-media work exploring sustainability, biological systems, and the relationship between people and the natural world.

Collaged beetle reaching upward through layered botanical forms
Reaching for RenewalMagazine, newspaper, watercolor, acrylic
Sculptural butchered pig assembled from cardboard and painted paper
Butchered PigCardboard, paper napkins, tape, acrylic
Newspaper and watercolor study of the Vacanti mouse with an ear-shaped form
Vacanti “Ear” MouseNewspaper, cardboard, watercolor
Fish sculpture assembled from overlapping scraps of colorful fabric
Fast Fashion FishScrap fabric, cardboard, glue
Lobster sculpture made from foil and plastic inside a painted boiling pot
Lobster BoilingTinfoil, plastic bag, watercolor, cardboard
Textile monarch butterfly surrounded by fragmented habitat materials
Habitat LostRabbit hair, fabric, beads, thread
Circular oyster composition constructed from found plastic trash
What Goes Around Comes AroundFound trash, colored pencil, watercolor
Detailed painted hermit crab with a patterned shell
Painted Hermit CrabWatercolor, paint marker, colored pencil
School of watercolor sardines gathered beneath fishing netting
Stronger TogetherNetting, cardboard, watercolor
Repeated linocut sea stars progressively fragmenting from wasting syndrome
Sea Star Wasting SyndromeLinocut stamp, printing ink
Layered magazine and ink still life with household vessels
Still LifeMagazine, ink, cardboard
Watercolor calf constrained by twine in a study of veal production
Forced TendernessWatercolor, twine, glue