Sarah Crowner: Platform as Platform

Sarah Crowner’s new tile installation, Platform as Platform, is on view at SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, GA, through June 9, 2025.

For this new exhibition, the artist has created her largest tile installation to date, a site-specific structure that stretches a span of more than 200 feet. Fabricated from custom-made terracotta tiles created in Guadalajara, Mexico, the floor-based work echoes the accumulative repetition of the building’s historic brick masonry, while the tiles’ colorful, glossy glaze and wavy design form a vast, dynamic ground that seems to extend into the horizon. Crowner welcomes viewers to stand on, walk across, or even dance around the light-refracting composition, encouraging an experience that shifts our relationship to painting. Crowner’s work also functions as a foundation for a group of stretched drop cloths sourced from the SCAD fibers department’s screen-printing lab, displaying the accumulated layers from years of use by students and faculty. These collaborative canvases transform a potentially overlooked surface into something laden with meaning and aesthetic merit, evoking the reframed viewpoint that her installation offers. An inclusive, expansive gesture, Platform as Platform enjoins us to reconsider how we see the world.

Platform as Platform is organized by SCAD Museum of Art chief curator Daniel S. Palmer and presented as part of SCAD deFINE ART 2025. To learn more, please visit the SCAD website.