Sara Edwards.

Ms. Edwards is a visual artist engaging scale and color in abstract and figurative painting.

Sara’s current works materialize through oil, graphite, acrylic and oil pastels. Highly textured marks powerfully engage scale, panels of rich sensual color, and rhythmic, repeating forms.

Ms. Edwards’ work is concerned with memory, trauma, and the aftermath of human large scale and intimate conflict.

Drawing on the history of symbolist and color field painters, as well as street artists, Sara paints abstracted shapes and figures in landscapes of pure color. Her artistic arc coheres: the rigorous formalism of the fine arts; the freedom and revolution of global graffiti practices; and the poetic imaginaries of mythology, dreams and the unconscious.

With this, Ms. Edwards invites her viewer to visually perceive with their felt senses, and emotionally see beyond the painting surface into realities of things as they really are — beauty and devastation, awe, powerful mark making, emotion, light, color —

— and, magic.

Ms. Edwards studied with the late Graham Nickson; and also, at the Art Students League under Peter Bonner, Pat Lipsky and Michael Bourbon in New York City.

Sara lives and paints in New York City.