Portfolio Blog: The ArtWork of Sarah Ciampa

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Study with Red Fabric
oil on board, 2011, 8.5" X 8.5"

Page 1 of 2 of the Image Gallery

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29, Self-Portrait
oil on canvas, 2008, 26X 34 inches

Mandalas

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The Wedding Mandala
oil on canvas, 2010, 3 X 3 feet

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Mandala with Five Traditional Elements
oil on canvas, 2009, 3 X 3 feet

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Mandala with Healing Herbs
oil on canvas, 2009, 18 X 18 inches
commissioned for private collection (sold)

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Mandala of Forms
oil on canvas, 2008, 32 X 36 inches
sold

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World View
oil on canvas, 2009, 18 X 18 inches

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"Dream within a Dream" Mandala
oil on canvas, 2008, 22 X 22 inches

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Mandala with Fire Element
oil on canvas, 2008, 30 X 30 inches
sold

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1,000 Days and Nights
oil on canvas, 2008, 30 X 30 inches

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Mandala with Water, Space
oil on canvas, 2008, 30 X 30 inches

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Qigong Mandala
oil on canvas, 2007, 30 X30 inches
commissioned for private collection (sold)

Osteologic

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Chasm
oil on canvas, 2008, 29 X 32 inches

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Slope
oil on canvas, 2008, 24 X 36 inches

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Land Escape
oil on canvas, 2008, 26 X 34 inches

Portraits & Human Imagery

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Love as Illumination
oil on canvas, 2009, 30 X 22 inches

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Rebecca, a Painting of My Sister
oil on canvas, 2008, 5.5 X 4 feet

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Harbinger of Reclamation
oil on canvas, 2008, 40 X 52 inches

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All the Fish in the Sea
oil on canvas, 2010, 30 X 54 inches

Organica

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Transcendent Biology
oil on canvas, 2007, 27.5 X 60 inches
Sold

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Elemental Prospectus
oil on canvas, 2007, 40 X 51 inches

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Axiom
oil on canvas, 2007, 34 X 54 inches

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Bionomic Capitulation
oil on canvas, 2008, 39.5 X 51 inches

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Nervous Optical Illusion
oil on canvas, 2008, 40 X 52 inches

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Natural Forces
oil on canvas, 2005, 26.5 X 39 inches

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Life and Energy
oil on canvas, 2005, 18 X 26 inches

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Nightscape with Chainlink Fence
oil on canvas, 2007, 35 X 48 inches

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Sentient Assembly
oil on canvas, 2009, 24 X 30 inches

Hydras

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Hydra
oil on canvas, 2005, 18 X 24 inches

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Diffident Hydra
oil on canvas, 2005, 18 X 24 inches

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Strong Hydra
oil on canvas, 2005, 18 X 24 inches

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Hydra Reya
oil on canvas, 2008, 34 X 54 inches

Still Life

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Bell & Urchin Shell
oil on canvas, 2008, 5 X 7 inches

Exhibit History

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Solo Shows:

2010 April Bellingham WA, Honey Salon
2009 Nov Portland OR, Berbati's Bar
2008 July-Aug Eugene OR, Fenario Gallery
2007 April Eugene OR, Morning Glory Cafe
2006 Sept Eugene OR, The Jawbreaker Community Art Space/Window Gallery
2006 Nov Eugene OR, WOW Hall
2005 Feb Eugene OR, Possum Place, Last Friday Artwalk
2005 July Eugene OR, Morning Glory Cafe
2005 Oct Eugene OR, Positively 4th St, Last Friday Artwalk
2004 Aug Eugene OR, Keystone Cafe
2004 Sept Eugene OR, Morning Glory Cafe

Shared Shows:
2009 Oct Eugene OR, Positively Fourth Street, Last Friday Artwalk,
showing with Jacob Solomon, Jayme Vineyard, and Scott Klein
2009 Feb Eugene OR, Feinstein's Museum of Unfine Art,
showing with Jamie Burress
2007 March Eugene OR, Feinstein's Museum of Unfine Art,
showing with Jamie Burress, Andy Helps, and Cindi Franson
2007 May Eugene OR, Sam Bond's Garage
showing with Pete Theophanes
2005 Feb Eugene OR, Feinstein's Museum of Unfine Art
showing with Jamie Burress and Sharon O'Hara
2004 Nov Eugene OR, The Jawbreaker Community Art Space/Window Gallery
showing with Jacob Solomon

Group Shows:
2011 Aug Eugene, OR, Jacobs Gallery, the 28th Annual Mayor's Art Show
2011 Aug Eugene, OR, New Zone Gallery/ M.E.C.C.A.'s 3rd Annual Object Afterlife Challenge
2010 Feb Portland OR, Olympic Mills Commerce Center/Launch Pad Gallery, 5th Annual "Love" Show
2009 Jan Eugene OR, Feinstein's Museum of Unfine Art, 4th Year Anniversary Show
2009 Dec Bellingham WA, The Blue Horse Gallery, In-House Artists Exhibition
2009 Oct Portland OR, Launch Pad Gallery, "Family" show
2009 July Bellingham WA, The Blue Horse Gallery, In-House Artists Exhibition
2009 Mar Bellingham WA, Allied Arts of Whatcom County, Annual Members Show
2009 Feb Portland OR, Olympic Mills Commerce Center/Launch Pad Gallery, "Love" Show
2009 Jan Bellingham WA, The Blue Horse Gallery, "Public Hanging Show"
2008 Oct Portland OR, Launch Pad Gallery, "Dreams" show
2006 Dec Eugene OR, Feinstein's Museum of Unfine Art, "The Blue Art Show"
2006 April Eugene OR, Laverne Krause Gallery, Univ. of Oregon, "ONCE" Collective show
2005 Oct Eugene OR, DIVA, "The Surreal Art Show"
2005 Sept Eugene OR, DIVA, "The Salon de Refuse"
2005 May Eugene OR, Lane Community College, Juried Student Art Show, Spring
2004 Sept Eugene OR, DIVA, "The Salon de Refuse"
2004 Dec Eugene OR, Feinstein's Museum of Unfine Art, "Virgins and Dinosaurs" show

Art Donation Events:
2009 Nov Eugene OR, Skaters for Eugene Skateparks Silent Auction, artist participant

Publications:
2009 July "Entertainment News North West"
2004, Spring Term, "Denali" Arts Publication of Lane Community College

Commissions:
2009 Oct completed commissioned oil on canvas painting for Mary Thimmesch
2007 April completed commissioned oil on board painting for Donald Stewart
2007 August completed commissioned oil on canvas painting for Mary Thimmesch

Education:
University of Oregon
2004-2006
Magna Cum Laude
Bachelor of Arts
Fine Arts Major

Lane Community College
2002-2004
AAOT degree

Artist Statement

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My work has been described as surrealist, psychedelic, and dream-like. I don't really deny these influences, but I consider my work to be archetypal and symbolic, emotional and intellectual, as these are the substrates on which the work is built.

At the most basic level my paintings are always about relationships. Relationships between the energetic and the material, the known and the mysterious, relationships that create processes, and our relationships to ourselves and our interior and exterior environments.

In art I have been influenced by the classical realism of the Flemish and Italian Renaissance masters, the surrealist work of Salvador Dali, the color, texture, and use of light of Rembrandt, Van Gogh, and Henry Ossawa Tanner, the emotional and cultural significance of Frida Kahlo, the modern contemplation of Warhol and Picasso, and the challenge and beauty of contemporary artists like Jenny Saville, John Currin, and Damien Hirst--all of these styles and forces serve as the blue-prints for my aspirations in painting and I am as inspired by life itself as I am by other artists.

"While there is certainly no lack of artistic talent in Eugene, I sometimes struggle to find art that moves me in a new direction. Art is about discovery. I want to be moved, but not in the staid choreography of some antiquated artistic waltz. I want head banging art. Art that puts the holy ghost in you; art exhibit as Pentecostal church complete with a soundtrack of tongues. Something that speaks for itself, something that actually has something to say. I'm an aesthetic person, I do love beauty, but not that which is only skin deep. I respond to art that has its own voice, and has a story to tell. Sarah Ciampa's dark yet stunning canvases all seem to exist within their own unique fairy tale...or nightmare depending on the piece. Her work is the stuff of recurring dreams."

(by: Chloe Gallagher, June 19 2008, for "Party Like an Art Star," The Art Blog of Chloe Gallagher, Gallery Manager, Fenario Gallery, Eugene, Oregon)

Contact

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email: artworks23@gmail.com