Sara Edwards

Sara is a painter, writer and anthropologist/ research scientist.

Sara’s current works materialize through oil, graphite, acrylic and oil pastels, inviting her viewers to escape their prisons of analysis and comparison when in front of a work — and instead allow themselves to sink hypnotically into pure feeling, emotional range and mystery. Highly textured marks powerfully engage scale, panels of rich sensual color, and rhythmic, repeating forms.

Indexing her university studies in art history, photography, drawing and architecture in Rome, Ravenna and India, lengthy party girl era dating graffiti artists and club DJs in 90s hip hop scene in New York and the Brixton neighborhood of London, and professional work as an ethnographer in Hawaii and American Samoa in her 30s and early 40s, Sara juxtaposes the rigorous formalism of the Western fine arts, freedom and revolution of global street art practices, and poetic imaginaries of ethnography, myth and symbolism within traditional subject matters of abstraction, the figure and the landscape. With this, Ms. Edwards invites the viewer to dialogue with the perceptual and unseen felt sense, magic, powerful mark making, history, light, color — and beauty.

Sara lives in Williamsburg, NYC with Tina and their dog Tuna.