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BiographySarai Nissan was born in 1996 in Denver, Colorado to two Israeli immigrants who fell out of love five years after she and her twin sister were born. Coming from a creative home, raised on the art of Andy Warhol and the music of Bob Dylan, her love for art and music culminated. At the age of 15 she was whisked away to live in Israel for a year, there she traveled around Europe and found herself in a constant state of wanderlust after her return to the states.
She works with many medias mostly focusing on the aesthetics of oil paints.
She currently resides in Boulder, Colorado and is a Senior at Boulder High School.
Relevant Classes• Drawing and Painting at Horizons K-8 Middle school• Private art lessons with local artist Kara Priest• Boulder High’s Drawing and Painting 3, Freshman year• Boulder Universal’s Art Appreciation, sophomore year• Boulder High’s Portfolio arts, sophomore and junior year• 2013 Summer seminar at Colorado College through the Marie
Walshe Sharpe Program• AP Studio Art Senior Year• Foundations in drawing and painting at Pratt Institute• Art History and Portfolio development at Pratt Institute
“Sparrow”Acrylic on wood panel
4 x 4 inches
“Fox”Acrylic on wood block
4 x 4 inches
“Fawn”Acrylic on wood block
4 x 4 inches
“Acherontia Rosa”Oil, Acrylic, and Gold Loose leaf
on canvas34 x 46 inches
“Memento Mori”Oil and Acrylic on canvas
6ft x 5ft
“Women”
Acrylic and Charcoal on canvas
22 x 46 inches
“Shrouded”Oil and wax on canvas
34 x 46 inches
“Gods With Giving Arms”Acrylics on paper map
9 x 17 inches
“Dehydrated Pear”Silver point and chalk on
wood panel12 x 12 inches
“Biota” Watercolor and Ink on paper
14 x 17 inches
“Parasitic”
Oil paints on metal
8 x 13 inches
“Bones”
Chalk pastel on paper
18 x 24 inches
“Grave of the Discontent “
Ink, graphite and Mica flakes on
transparency paper mounted on wood
7 x 17 inches
“Lost Fragments”
Graphite on paper
14 x 17 inches
“Hands Observation”
Graphite and pen on paper
14 x 17 inches
“Cellar Door”Linocut print with ink on paper
12 x 18 inches
“You will find solace here.”
Oil on canvas
8 x 10 inches
“Black mass”
Oil on canvas
6 x 12 inches
“Chest//Door”Oil paints on linen board
11” x 15”
“Skeleton still life”Charcoal on paper
18” x 24”
“Blanket still life”Acrylics on canvas
24” x 24”
“Acacia” Pen on paper
8.5” x 11”
“Male Nude Figure”Charcoal on paper
18” x 24”
“Female Nude Figure”Charcoal on newsprint
18” x 24”
“Plans”Ink and news print on paper
18” x 24”
“Superstitions”Oil on linen board
11” x 15”
“Charles”Work in progress
Oil on canvas
Artists StatementEach and every single piece contains a fragment of
myself, every piece I create is created in an effort to unearth myself. My work explores my own morbid curiosities, addressing the images that some may find odd, obscure or even grotesque. My infatuation with such oddities manifests itself with in my work. Always teetering on the edge of death or darkness my artwork explores this contrasting balance; light and dark, life and death, male and female etc. My pieces have become vessels to the darkest and brightest thoughts from the dregs of my mind. They are ostensibly foreboding creatures, cultivated and conceived through the inspiration of the occult, metaphysics entwined with everyday life.
The Artist-Member of Boulder High’s Art
club/open studios-Intern at Boulder Museum of
Contemporary Art-She has had a solo exhibition at the KGNU radio
station in 2009-Has displayed and sold pieces at Boulder Museum of Contemporary Arts’ open wall
-Received the Honorable People’s Choice Award in the 2011 Colorado Congressional Art
Competition.-Recipient of the Marie-Walshe Sharpe
scholarship-Recipient of an academic letter from Boulder
High-Member of Boulder High School’s chapter of
the National Honor’s Society-Attended Pratt Institutes Pre-college summer of
2013-Exhibited works at Pratt Institute
-Has done many illustrations for local bands and for the New York based jewelry brand
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