Optimism Print

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, one of the first such spaces in the country. 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, human connection, self-awareness, and mental health. 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 as it pertains to self-awareness and mental/emotional health. Her current preference is to work on either stretched canvas or cradled wood panels.