To grab a moment, to steal it and hold on takes bravery. The immediacy of the action is one of fooling the devil before he thinks twice.

What is important is the very moment of each piece and the creation that happens within that moment. It is gestural and organic. Each moment is so valuable when each is a last. I work to capture the intensity of a moment slipping by. The entire effort is one of immediacy.

My sculptures are snapshots of the gesture and emotion present during the making of a piece. It could be found in the model, the surrounding landscape, in the animal or from within myself. It is how I define the essential expressive nature of a form.


Molly Sawyer was born in Atlanta, GA. She graduated from Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1995 where she received a B.A. in Studio Art focusing on ceramics. She moved to New York City in 2001 where she studied the figure first at the New York Studio School and then at the Art Students League of New York.

She exhibits nationally and her sculptures are part of New York Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Mohegan Sun Casino, and the Ritz-Carlton Boston collections, and various private and corporate collections throughout the East Coast.