Sara Conca

Sara Conca is an American abstract artist of French-Italian descent whose works are in numerous private collections and museums across Europe and the United States. A public collection of 81 of her paintings is in the permanent collection at Jenkins Health & Technology Building at The University of Tampa.

 

Conca studied sculpture at Ateliers D'Art De St Maur Des Fosses in France. She continued her education in South Florida as an assistant to artist Purvis Young. Returning to her Florida roots inspired a new, mystical aquatic series, which includes natural mixed media such as raw silver dust and 18k gold leafing, raw color pigments, mica flakes, and natural crystals.

 

"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 freedom. My new series features a range of blues. I love working with this color because it changes in the light by manipulating the textures and layering with silver dust or gold, affording each piece continuous movement and energy from the reflecting and refracting light."

 

Established in her process and prompting a visual-emotional response from the viewer, the medium and large-scale works in the current series exploit the chromatic effects of metallics and paint. Consequently, and quite beautifully, the surface of the art is very physical. Conca instinctively arrived at this painting style but with a significant nod to her lineage. She credits Sebastiano Conca (1680-1764), whose work is on permanent exhibition at the Louvre, the Getty, and in venerable museum collections worldwide, as a genetic influencer. It is with this provenance that Sara Conca has become a highly regarded artistic force.