Peter Sacks
Without Title 3, 2022
Peter Sacks was born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, in 1950, and grew up in Durban, on the Indian Ocean. After a term in Medical School at the University of Cape Town, he decided to pursue Political Science and Literature at the University of Natal. He became involved in the struggle against the apartheid regime as a member of the National Union of South African Students and executive of the Students Representative Council. In 1970 Sacks emigrated from South Africa and spent the following several years studying in the United States and the United Kingdom. While authoring several books of literary scholarship and poetry, he painted privately, mostly in notebooks – several of which accompanied his travels on foot in South America, Asia, Africa and Europe. During the late 90’s he began to work on unframed canvas pages and, after a several month retreat in Marfa, Texas, began making free-standing works. Following the retreat, Sacks decided to make the works public and had his first solo exhibition in Paris in 2004, followed by exhibitions in New York and London. His large works on cardboard led to his designing sets for Peter Brook, notably the production of Sizwe Bansi is Dead at Theatre des Bouffes du Nord, Paris (2009). His densely layered works are in numerous private and public collections worldwide, including Baltimore Museum of Art; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Waltham, MA; The Collection of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, Johannesburg; The Ethelbert Cooper Museum of African and African American Art, Cambridge, MA; The Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, Oxford; and the Beyond Borders Foundation, Edinburgh. Sacks works in studios in Massachusetts and New York City. He has had solo exhibitions at Sperone Westwater in 2021 and 2022.
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Peter Sacks
Without Title 1, 2022
mixed media on canvas
96 x 72 x 4 inches (243,8 x 182,9 x 10,2 cm)
SW 22197
Peter Sacks
Without Title 2, 2022
mixed media on canvas
96 x 72 x 4 inches (243,8 x 182,9 x 10,2 cm)
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Peter Sacks
Without Title 3, 2022
mixed media on canvas
96 x 72 x 4 inches (243,8 x 182,9 x 10,2 cm)
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Peter Sacks
Without Name 1, 2022
mixed media on canvas
48 x 48 x 2 inches (121,9 x 121,9 x 5,1 cm)
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Peter Sacks
Without Name 2, 2022
mixed media on canvas
48 x 48 x 2 inches (121,9 x 121,9 x 5,1 cm)
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Peter Sacks
Without Name 4, 2022
mixed media on canvas
48 x 48 x 2 inches (121,9 x 121,9 x 5,1 cm)
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Peter Sacks
Without Name 6, 2022
mixed media on canvas
48 x 48 x 2 inches (121,9 x 121,9 x 5,1 cm)
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Peter Sacks
Crossing, 2021
mixed media on wood panels
60 x 150 x 2 inches (152,4 x 381 x 5,1 cm)
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Peter Sacks
Above Our Lands 10, 2022
mixed media on paper
22 1/2 x 30 inches (57,2 x 76,2 cm)
29 x 36 1/4 x 1 1/2 inches (73,7 x 92,1 x 3,8 cm) frame
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Peter Sacks
Above Our Lands 11, 2022
mixed media on paper
22 1/2 x 30 inches (57,2 x 76,2 cm)
29 x 36 1/4 x 1 1/2 inches (73,7 x 92,1 x 3,8 cm) frame
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Peter Sacks
Above Our Lands 12, 2022
mixed media on paper
22 1/2 x 30 inches (57,2 x 76,2 cm)
29 x 36 1/4 x 1 1/2 inches (73,7 x 92,1 x 3,8 cm) frame
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Peter Sacks
Above Our Lands 13, 2022
mixed media on paper
22 1/2 x 30 inches (57,2 x 76,2 cm)
29 x 36 1/4 x 1 1/2 inches (73,7 x 92,1 x 3,8 cm) frame
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Peter Sacks
Above Our Lands 14, 2022
mixed media on paper
22 1/2 x 30 inches (57,2 x 76,2 cm)
29 x 36 1/4 x 1 1/2 inches (73,7 x 92,1 x 3,8 cm) frame
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Peter Sacks
Above Our Lands 15, 2022
mixed media on paper
22 1/2 x 30 inches (57,2 x 76,2 cm)
29 x 36 1/4 x 1 1/2 inches (73,7 x 92,1 x 3,8 cm) frame
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Peter Sacks
Above Our Lands 16, 2021
mixed media on paper
22 1/2 x 30 inches (57,2 x 76,2 cm)
29 x 36 1/4 x 1 1/2 inches (73,7 x 92,1 x 3,8 cm) frame
SW 22274
Peter Sacks
Above Our Lands 17, 2021
mixed media on paper
22 1/2 x 30 inches (57,2 x 76,2 cm)
29 x 36 1/4 x 1 1/2 inches (73,7 x 92,1 x 3,8 cm) frame
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Peter Sacks
Above Our Lands 2, 2022
mixed media on paper
22 1/2 x 30 inches (57,2 x 76,2 cm)
29 x 36 1/4 x 1 1/2 inches (73,7 x 92,1 x 3,8 cm) frame
SW 22208
Peter Sacks
Above Our Lands 6, 2022
mixed media on paper
22 1/2 x 30 inches (57,2 x 76,2 cm)
29 x 36 1/4 x 1 1/2 inches (73,7 x 92,1 x 3,8 cm) frame
SW 22212
Peter Sacks
Resistance Series (Alexei Navalny 1), 2022
mixed media on paper
30 x 22 1/2 inches (76,2 x 57,2 cm)
36 1/4 x 29 x 2 inches (92,1 x 73,7 x 5,1 cm) frame
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Peter Sacks
Resistance Series (Anna Akhmatova 2), 2021
mixed media on paper
30 x 22 1/2 inches (76,2 x 57,2 cm)
36 1/4 x 29 x 2 inches (92,1 x 73,7 x 5,1 cm) frame
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Peter Sacks
Resistance Series (Audre Lorde 2), 2022
mixed media on paper
30 x 22 1/2 inches (76,2 x 57,2 cm)
36 1/4 x 29 x 2 inches (92,1 x 73,7 x 5,1 cm) frame
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Peter Sacks
Resistance Series (Davi Kopenawa), 2022
mixed media on paper
30 x 22 1/2 inches (76,2 x 57,2 cm)
36 1/4 x 29 x 2 inches (92,1 x 73,7 x 5,1 cm) frame
SW 22248
Peter Sacks
Resistance Series (Emmeline Pankhurst 1), 2021
mixed media on paper
30 x 22 1/2 inches (76,2 x 57,2 cm)
36 1/4 x 29 x 2 inches (92,1 x 73,7 x 5,2 cm) frame
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Peter Sacks
Resistance Series (Frank O'Hara), 2021
mixed media on paper
30 x 22 1/2 inches (76,2 x 57,2 cm)
36 1/4 x 29 x 2 inches (92,1 x 73,7 x 5,1 cm) frame
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Peter Sacks
Resistance Series (Frederick Douglass 0), 2020-2022
mixed media on paper
30 x 22 1/2 inches (76,2 x 57,2 cm)
36 1/4 x 29 x 2 inches (92,1 x 73,7 x 5,1 cm) frame
SW 22238
Peter Sacks
Resistance Series (Frederick Douglass 12), 2021
mixed media on paper
30 x 22 1/2 inches (76,2 x 57,2 cm)
36 1/4 x 29 x 2 inches (92,1 x 73,7 x 5,1 cm) frame
SW 22243
Peter Sacks
Resistance Series (Frederick Douglass 9), 2021
mixed media on paper
30 x 22 1/2 inches (76,2 x 57,2 cm)
36 1/4 x 29 x 2 inches (92,1 x 73,7 x 5,1 cm) frame
SW 22242
Peter Sacks
Resistance Series (Hannah Arendt 2), 2022
mixed media on paper
30 x 22 1/2 inches (76,2 x 57,2 cm)
36 1/4 x 29 x 2 inches (92,1 x 73,7 x 5,1 cm) frame
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Peter Sacks
Resistance Series (Harriet Tubman 2), 2020-2022
mixed media on paper
30 x 22 1/2 inches (76,2 x 57,2 cm)
36 1/4 x 29 x 2 inches (92,1 x 73,7 x 5,1 cm) frame
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Peter Sacks
Resistance Series (James Baldwin 3), 2022
mixed media on paper
30 x 22 1/2 inches (76,2 x 57,2 cm)
36 1/4 x 29 x 2 inches (92,1 x 73,7 x 5,1 cm) frame
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Peter Sacks
Resistance Series (Lu Xun), 2021
mixed media on paper
30 x 22 1/2 inches (76,2 x 57,2 cm)
36 1/4 x 29 x 2 inches (92,1 x 73,7 x 5,1 cm) frame
Framed: 36 1/4h x 29w x 2d in
92.08h x 73.66w x 5.08d cm
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Peter Sacks
Resistance Series (Martin Luther King, Jr. 1), 2020
mixed media on paper
30 x 22 1/2 inches (76,2 x 57,2 cm)
36 1/4 x 29 x 2 inches (92,1 x 73,7 x 5,1 cm) frame
Framed: 36 1/4h x 29w x 2d in
92.08h x 73.66w x 5.08d cm
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Peter Sacks
Resistance Series (Miguel Hernandez), 2020
mixed media on paper
30 x 22 1/2 inches (76,2 x 57,2 cm)
36 1/2 x 29 x 2 inches (92,1 x 73,7 x 5,1 cm) frame
Framed: 36 1/4h x 29w x 2d in
92.08h x 73.66w x 5.08d cm
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Peter Sacks
Resistance Series (Nasrin Sotoudeh 1), 2022
mixed media on paper
30 x 22 1/2 inches (76,2 x 57,2 cm)
36 1/4 x 29 x 2 inches (92,1 x 73,7 x 5,1 cm) frame
Framed: 36 1/4h x 29w x 2d in
92.08h x 73.66w x 5.08d cm
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Peter Sacks
Resistance Series (Nelly Sachs), 2021
mixed media on paper
30 x 22 1/2 inches (76,2 x 57,2 cm)
36 1/4 x 29 x 2 inches (92,1 x 73,7 x 5,1 cm) frame
Framed: 36 1/4h x 29w x 2d in
92.08h x 73.66w x 5.08d cm
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Peter Sacks
Resistance Series (Nelson Mandela 2), 2020-2022
mixed media on paper
30 x 22 1/2 inches (76,2 x 57,2 cm)
36 1/4 x 29 x 2 inches (92,1 x 73,7 x 5,1 cm) frame
Framed: 36 1/4h x 29w x 2d in
92.08h x 73.66w x 5.08d cm
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Peter Sacks
Resistance Series (Osip Mandelstam 1), 2020-2022
mixed media on paper
30 x 22 1/2 inches (76,2 x 57,2 cm)
36 1/4 x 29 x 2 inches (92,1 x 73,7 x 5,1 cm) frame
Framed: 36 1/4h x 29w x 2d in
92.08h x 73.66w x 5.08d cm
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Peter Sacks
Resistance Series (Paul Celan 2), 2020-2022
mixed media on paper
30 x 22 1/2 inches (76,2 x 57,2 cm)
36 1/4 x 29 x 2 inches (92,1 x 73,7 x 5,1 cm) frame
Framed: 36 1/4h x 29w x 2d in
92.08h x 73.66w x 5.08d cm
SW 22278
Peter Sacks
Resistance Series (Paul Cezanne 1), 2022
mixed media on paper
30 x 22 1/2 inches (76,2 x 57,2 cm)
36 1/4 x 29 x 2 inches (92,1 x 73,7 x 5,1 cm) frame
Framed: 36 1/4h x 29w x 2d in
92.08h x 73.66w x 5.08d cm
SW 22237
Peter Sacks
Resistance Series (Primo Levi 2), 2021
mixed media on paper
30 x 22 1/2 inches (76,2 x 57,2 cm)
36 1/4 x 29 x 2 inches (92,1 x 73,7 x 5,1 cm) frame
Framed: 36 1/4h x 29w x 2d in
92.08h x 73.66w x 5.08d cm
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Peter Sacks
Resistance Series (Rachel Carson 6), 2022
mixed media on paper
30 x 22 1/2 inches (76,2 x 57,2 cm)
36 1/4 x 29 x 2 inches (92,1 x 73,7 x 5,1 cm) frame
Framed: 36 1/4h x 29w x 2d in
92.08h x 73.66w x 5.08d cm
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Peter Sacks
Resistance Series (Rosa Parks 3), 2021
mixed media on paper
30 x 22 1/2 inches (76,2 x 57,2 cm)
36 1/4 x 29 x 2 inches (92,1 x 73,7 x 5,1 cm) frame
Framed: 36 1/4h x 29w x 2d in
92.08h x 73.66w x 5.08d cm
SW 22259
Peter Sacks
Resistance Series (Samuel Beckett 2), 2022
mixed media on paper
30 x 22 1/2 inches (76,2 x 57,2 cm)
36 1/4 x 29 x 2 inches (92,1 x 73,7 x 5,1 cm) frame
Framed: 36 1/4h x 29w x 2d in
92.08h x 73.66w x 5.08d cm
SW 22231
Peter Sacks
Resistance Series (Sojourner Truth 3), 2021
mixed media on paper
30 x 22 1/2 inches (76,2 x 57,2 cm)
36 1/4 x 29 x 2 inches (92,1 x 73,7 x 5,1 cm) frame
Framed: 36 1/4h x 29w x 2d in
92.08h x 73.66w x 5.08d cm
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Peter Sacks
Resistance Series (Stephen Biko 2), 2020-2022
mixed media on paper
30 x 22 1/2 inches (76,2 x 57,2 cm)
36 1/4 x 29 x 2 inches (92,1 x 73,7 x 5,1 cm) frame
Framed: 36 1/4h x 29w x 2d in
92.08h x 73.66w x 5.08d cm
SW 22232
Peter Sacks
Resistance Series (Susan B Anthony), 2021
mixed media on paper
30 x 22 1/2 inches (76,2 x 57,2 cm)
36 1/4 x 29 x 2 inches (92,1 x 73,7 x 5,1 cm) frame
Framed: 36 1/4h x 29w x 2d in
92.08h x 73.66w x 5.08d cm
SW 22225
Peter Sacks
Resistance Series (Virginia Woolf 1), 2022
mixed media on paper
30 x 22 1/2 inches (76,2 x 57,2 cm)
36 1/4 x 29 x 2 inches (92,1 x 73,7 x 5,1 cm) frame
Framed: 36 1/4h x 29w x 2d in
92.08h x 73.66w x 5.08d cm
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Peter Sacks
Resistance Series (Volodymyr Zelenskyy 3), 2022
mixed media on paper
30 x 22 1/2 inches (76,2 x 57,2 cm)
36 1/4 x 29 x 2 inches (92,1 x 73,7 x 5,1 cm) frame
Framed: 36 1/4h x 29w x 2d in
92.08h x 73.66w x 5.08d cm
SW 22270
Peter Sacks
Resistance Series (Wangari Maathai 2), 2021
mixed media on paper
30 x 22 1/2 inches (76,2 x 57,2 cm)
36 1/4 x 29 x 2 inches (92,1 x 73,7 x 5,1 cm) frame
Framed: 36 1/4h x 29w x 2d in
92.08h x 73.66w x 5.08d cm
SW 22251
Peter Sacks
Resistance Series (WH Auden 1), 2021
mixed media on paper
30 x 22 1/2 inches (76,2 x 57,2 cm)
36 1/4 x 29 x 2 inches (92,1 x 73,7 x 5,1 cm) frame
Framed: 36 1/4h x 29w x 2d in
92.08h x 73.66w x 5.08d cm
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