Sharon Sayegh

Female figures, animals and the natural world pulsate in jewel tone colors with the wonder for the world that I have had since my childhood. Working in oil, gold, silver, and palladium leaf I employ traditional painting techniques bringing contemporary subject matter to bear.

Art making is the wondrous, mysterious, magical process of emergent beauty. Michael Pearce states in 'Art In The Age of Emergence'  "Water is made of oxygen and hydrogen, but neither of those two elements is wet. Wetness is an emergent quality of water. Like wetness, the emergent experience of beauty is a quality that is greater than the sum of its parts." 

I compose objects and a story emerges.  I arrange shapes and a composition and movement is revealed.  I arrange colors, build up paint and the emergent quality of wonder appears to reflect on the complexity of life.

I work in a style that blends historical and contemporary worlds. Each generation wants to cause a revolution, burn off the dead wood of the civilization their own is built upon. The question is what to hold onto. In my paintings I retain art historical references and techniques. There exists a duality in emergence being greater than the sum of its parts and yet retaining a sense of its...

BA University of Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts

Select Juried and Group Shows
2019 Oct. 5-Nov. 4 Exhibition/Movie Night, Illes Arts, Amagansett, NY. Curated by Rick Davidman. Some of the artists included in show are Will Kurtz, Claudia Kaak, Ben Aronson, Viktoria Savenkova, O'Neil Scott, Shawn Sullivan and many others.
2019 Secondary Meanings: Figural Diptychs, Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, Ill. Curated by Steven Alan Bennett and Dr. Elaine Melotti Schmidt. Opens May 17, 2019. I am honored to be included in this show among very talented, accomplished artists.
2018 Discovery in the Detail, Studio Montclair Gallery, Curated by Nette Thomas, Montclair NJ
2018 October Exhibit at Piscataway Municipal Gallery, Piscataway NJ
2018 Human Landscape, 4 artist show, Artworks Trenton, Trenton, NJ
2017 Human Rights Art Exhibit, Holocaust Museum Houston, Museum’s Mincberg Gallery at the Morgan Family Center, Houston Tx
2017 Hope For the Holidays, Monmouth Museum Juried Art Exhibition, Lincroft, NJ
2017 Ebba Osborne Memorial Award Exhibition, Window Exhibit/Judge, Red Bank, NJ
2016 Members 2016 Exhibition, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ
2016 Emerging Artists 2016, Limner Gallery, Hudson, NY
2016 New Jersey Arts Annual 2016, The Noyes Arts Garage Stockton University, Atlantic City,...