Christine Sauerteig-Pilaar
Oak Ridge, NJ, United States
About Christine Sauerteig-Pilaar
Christine Sauerteig-Pilaar has been a professional artist for over 20 years. The repeating themes of her work have most recently been of the wildlife surrounding her home in New Jersey. She attempts to bridge modern aesthetics with traditional painterly craft in her work. Photorealism is not the goal in her pieces, but rather the imperfectness of the human hand is left, the chance of letting the oil paint drip and collide on the canvas, letting happenstance dance on the surface.
Receiving a BFA from Parsons School of Design, Christine has been stealthily working at perfecting her craft. From her early college angst ridden paintings that explored the beauty of the ugly, the struggle of the perverse, she has matured and found delicacy in the world. Taking time off for a small duration during the birth of her second child, she came back with a new outlook, with a desire to depict the relationship of nature with the human experience. The idea of the human imprint on the living creatures that share our everyday life with us, not necessarily just environmental. Also, the relationships that these creatures can develop around our existence. She is currently trying to connect with the crows in her neighborhood, with the hopes of having “Gifting Crows”. If she is successful, she plans on painting portraits of the gifts they leave for her, and then placing the paintings back where the crows leave the “presents” and recording what happens, if anything.
The majority of her work is oil on canvas.
In a real blending of talents, her supportive husband makes all the stretchers and most of the frames for her pieces.
Within the last year she has begun working with gouache, and finding it very successful.
She has been selected for several National Juried Shows, and participated in online Juried shows.
Her newsletter is always highly anticipated with her followers, and everyone is urged to go to her website, check out her blog and sign up for the newsletterhttp://www.csauerteigpilaar.co.uk/
She has been commissioned for several pieces, and is on the verge of making a new series of paintings exploring the idea of the strong woman and delicacy. She is excited to see where this new journey will take her, and will push her talents in new directions. She has always loved to paint the figure, but has been struggling with the depiction of women, and nudity. Nudes are a strong passion for her, so she is currently working to find a balance that leaves the work meaningful and empowering to women. As a mother to two daughters, the protective mother instinct has swelled into her work, trying to be conscious of how women are represented in this image swamped society.
Education:
Parsons School of Design BFA
Exhibitions:
Oct 21-23 2016 39th Hilltop Country Day School’s Art Exhibit and Sale.
Sparta, NJ
Several Exhibited pieces from current collection
Oct 9- 26 2016 Barn Gallery at the Ringwood Manor
Fall Juried Exhibition
Exhibited Piece “Red Sandstone Mountains”
2015 October 14 - December 11 Lore Degenstein Gallery Seventh Annual Figurative Drawing and Painting Competition and Exhibition. My piece "Sleeping Beauty" Accepted
May 2015 Landscapes 2015 Online Art Exhibition -L ight Space & Time Online Art Gallery is pleased to announce that its May 2015 art exhibition is now posted on their website and is ready to be viewed online. The “Landscapes” Art Competition theme includes any art which depicts the natural world, outdoor scenery, geographical environments’ and related landscape subjects. 2D and 3D artists (Including Photography) were asked to submit their best representational or non-representational art. An art competition was held in April 2015 which determined and judged the art for this exhibition. The gallery received submissions from 19 different countries from around the world and they also received entries from 37 different states. Overall, there were 598 entries judged for this art competition. Lori McNee was the gallery’s Guest Judge for this competition. Lori is a professional artist and a social media expert. She specializes in still life, and landscape oil paintings. Her website is www.finearttips.com. http://issuu.com/johnrmath/docs/landscapes_art_exhibition_-_event_c
Exhibited piece "Wallich Field"
April 2014 The Academy of Fine Arts Lynchburgh, VA
Annual National Juried Art Exhibition
41 Artists from 14 States
Juror: Elise Schweitzer - Hollins University
Exhibited piece "O Fish 'O Happiness, I purge Thee"
http://www.academyfinearts.com/galleries/AnnWhite.asp#
Oct 2013 Lore Degenstein Gallery Fifth Annual Figurative Drawing and Painting Competition.
Susquehanna Univesity Pennsylvannia
Exhibited Piece "The LAnd of Cockaigne"
Sept 2013 National Juried Online Exhibit Linus Gallery "Nature Speaks"
Exhibited piece "What?What?What?" http://linusgallery.com/juried-exhibitions/category/2013-juried-art-exhibitions/nature-speaks/
National Juried Art Exhibition
Juror: David Dodge Lewis
April 5-27, 2013
The Ann White Academy Gallery, 600 Main Street, Lynchburg VA 24504
http://www.academyfinearts.com/galleries/AnnWhite.asp
Collecting Art: An Affordable Art Fair
Saturday, June 2
10 a.m. – 5 p.m.
FREE (also FREE Museum Admission)
Select from art made by a diverse group of artists offering pieces at prices under $500. Help support local and emerging artists while expanding your own collection! Visitors will also have the opportunity to hear local musicians, sponsored by Whole Foods Market Montclair.
Participating Artists: Luis Alves Collage, Alina Bliach, Jo Bradney, Aric Calfee, Gabrielle D’Angelo, Liz Demaree, Robyn Ellenbogen, Susan Fidlon, Michael Hart, Linda A. Ippolito, Ji Yong Kim, Wendy Letven, Maria Lupo, Cathy Pilkin, Adam Pitt, Christopher Reach, Brandon Rechten, Janice Reis, Christine Sauerteig-Pilaar, Christine Soccio, Lisa Stoeffel, Doreen Tighe, Victoria Tullo, and Julian Weitzenfeld.
