Anastacia Sadeh

Artist Statement:

"New Day" is a work about seeing the raw and varied experiences within my human experience through the lens of Grace and love. It is a work about loving ourselves enough to honestly own our stories and see the beauty that comes from such radical honesty.

My work explore the various pathways of human connection which includes being able to connect to our own stories. I am intrigued by how these concepts affect mental wellness and personal sanctuary. I examine how self-awareness, emotional regulation, and mental health affect, connect, and change how we experience life.

Using a combination of abstract, figurative, and landscape elements, I build narratives and suggest stories. I like to explore the how and why people experience their lives the way that they do. I lean toward using a combination of both accidental and controlled marks to metaphorically echo that the same pattern of choice and lack of choice hums through life.

My process includes creating abstract compositions of color (with water-based mediums), texture (with Venetian plaster and acrylic mediums), and intuitive mark-making (through a variety of drawing mediums and tools). The figurative and/or landscape aspects I often include in my work offer a more universal narrative construct with which to express an inner mental/emotional landscape.

Artist Bio:

Anastacia Sadeh graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a double major in Art History and Printmaking/Drawing. After teaching fine arts in Atlanta, she moved to St. Paul, Minnesota where she was accepted into the AZ Cooperative Gallery, a democratically run artists’ cooperative. Her love of layering both color and form within printmaking transitioned into abstract painting during this time as her interest in using her work as a conduit to explore emotions, relationships, and the mind grew. Sadeh’s current work examines how human connection affects the ongoing relationship between emotional authenticity, self-awareness, and mental health. Her works are records of fleeting emotions built through layers of water-based media and, often, Venetian plaster. She combines both abstract marks and color, as well as, figurative and landscape elements in order to express these stories. Some stories place the viewer as a timeless witness to fleeting, yet tumultuous emotions. Other stories combine her organic, abstracted forms with more direct human and landscape elements. These combined compositions create a more direct narrative for the viewer. Sadeh explores the complexity of human connection. Her current preference is to work on either stretched canvas or cradled wood panels.