Sara Conca is a self-taught New York based artist of French and Native American heritage who grew up in Southern Florida. Sara credits her family's penchant for relocating several times during her childhood with inspiring her appreciation for changing environments and settings. By the age of 17, Sara was living and working in Paris, an experience, she says, that only reinforced her appreciation for movement, energy and art.

Throughout the past 15 years in Manhattan, Sara has experimented with a wide variety of art mediums and forms of expression, yet her painting and sculpture practices have remained consistent, bringing her to a visual and skilled fluency with her mediums of choice.

Sara's well regarded works have been sold to many private collectors and she has had a number of solo and group exhibitions, including The Soho D&H Gallery Solo Shows, The Henry Gregg Gallery Compilation Show, Chelsea Art Gallery 32, Mansion NY, Le Bilboquet, Ted Gibson NY, Decor Art Gallery NY, Bo Concepts Designs Art Exhibits NY, Rouge Art Space Chelsea NY, Station Tribeca Art Gallery a Tribute to Gilda Radner for Gilda's Club Charity,Pool Art Fair NY through StandPipe Gallery, and Soho Belenky Gallery Solo Gold Layered Series April 2011.

Sara has also sold and displayed artwork in Europe and most recently Indonesia, Israel, France, and Italy.


Press Release for Gold Series April

"The Belenky Gallery is pleased to present new works by Sara Conca. Conca's intricate, biomorphic abstractions, resembling leaves or sea shells, combine elements of distinctive drawing with organic, fluid painting, with a Byzantine sense of pictorial architecture. In her works, expansive gold fields are inlaid with jewel-like stones and painted with verdigris washes. The total effect is one of Nature, in all its splendor, held in with gentle restraint."




Artist's Statement

My work is intended to instantaneously immerse the viewer into the visual and emotional energies that I have devoted to each piece. Depending on one's ability and willingness to be guided by the senses, these paintings can lead one away from the mind and into an alternate and self-made reality filled with color and feeling. My new series features gold. I love working with this color because it changes in the light and I can manipulate the textures and layering; thus affording each piece movement and energy from the reflecting and refracting light.