BIO
Sarah Pizzi (Massachusetts, b.1993) received a BFA in painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, GA in spring 2015. She began oil painting at the age of 11, taught under the instruction by artist, mentor, and friend, Sue Gilkey.
Pizzi has exhibited her work in an open studio in Lacoste, France in addition to various gallery exhibition shows in the city of Savannah, including: SCAD deFine Art Student Showcase and SCAD Drawing Works Exhibition, Hunny at Allure Salon, Project Liminal at Indigo Sky Gallery and Welcome to the Jam at the Bull Street College Center, Interim: From Infinite to Endpoint at Sulfur Studios, Small Works Show at Gutstein Gallery, and The Unveiling at The Whitefield Center. She has exhibited her work in Stowe, Vermont at The Current Members Show at The Current Gallery. She has also been featured in Beautiful Bizarre Magazine.
Her work consists of figurative or abstract paintings, and mixed media installations centering on nuances in intimate relationships. Pizzi currently works and resides in Boston, MA.
STATEMENT
My artwork illuminates the realities in human intimacy and experience of the self. It explores quiet nuances of interpersonal relationships through themes of safety, love, power dynamics, and personal developments. Centering around internal complexities and the delicate dance that can take place in various attachments.
Working primarily with oil on linen and multi-media installations, I want to shed light on emotional closeness. I have long been influenced by the ways light can transcend the ordinary into something sacred. Through the process of rendering invisible bonds, each painting reveals a narrative with psychological subtleties. Unspoken moments are encapsulated in cinematic tones with intentional gesture. Light and body language tell the story.
Within each of these moments, it allows the viewer to examine the intricate bond of belonging with oneself, someone, or something.