Wendy Saam

Wendy Saam is an artist and mother working in Altamont, New York. She creates intimate abstractions from the objects that her children find in their backyard. A graduate of Pratt Institute in both art history and library science, the process and procedure of her artwork is what drives her creations. Drawing on the modernist tradition of the grid, Wendy references artists like Agnes Martin and Gerhard Richter in her compositions, while looking at the surface quality and palette of Philip Guston and Hilda Af Klint. She also maintains a fascination with architectural schematic drawings, quilt patterns, and maps. Wendy finds inspiration from the artists she works with daily as a development researcher at Chautauqua Institution. When not drawing and painting, Wendy enjoys reading, running, and knitting.