SACHI MOSKOWITZ

Anna Erickson Presents A Place Above by Sachi Moskowitz, a Los Angeles-based ceramicist whose work memorializes the verdant landscapes and symbols of her personal history. Sachi’s upbringing in California, specifically Topanga Canyon, Humboldt County, and Los Angeles, inspired her latest body of work, a series of vessels that pay homage to the wilderness and a spirit of freedom and nostalgia still embedded in the scenic vistas, dense forests, and dramatic coastal shorelines of her youth.

This new body of work conveys the spirituality and romanticism beholden to each specific scene, which Sachi channels through her delicate paintings of native flora, sweeping cliffs and beaches, rolling hills, highways, and winding rivers. Her work invokes the history of her chosen medium through inspiration from ancient forms and a monochromatic color palette of blue gradients, which reinterpret each motif through the artist’s uniquely contemporary lens.

Each vessel incorporates narrative and sentimental elements from Sachi’s own life. These include personal details such as delicate jewelry chains embellished with elaborate charms such as snakes, shells, the 8 ball, and dice, which she affixes to her vessels as allegorical references to a spectrum of personal influences such as numerology, geography, and her own familial legacy.

A quiet optimism and appreciation pervades Sachi’s work, preserving her intimate memories and the fleeting moments in time that, together, constitute a life. By capturing California's vast landscapes and cultural vignettes that have signified her own narrative, the artist reveals a more universal affection characterized by the places, objects, scenes, and archetypes that define us as we navigate our ever-changing world.

Sachi Moskowitz was born in Los Angeles in 1989, where she currently lives and works. She received a BFA in Sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute. Sachi has had solo exhibitions at Half Gallery, New York (2024), One Trick Pony, Los Angeles (2023 and 2022) and has been included in group exhibitions at NADA Paris (2024), The Ranch, Montauk (2023), Sebastian Gladstone, Los Angeles (2022). In 2017 she was awarded the Dennis Patrick Gallagher Award for Excellence in Ceramic Sculpture, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA. In 2024 she was featured in the Artnet article "Ceramicists Michael and Magdalena Frimkess Defined Venice Beach’s Bohemia—Now Their Granddaughter Is Taking Up the Mantle."