Anastacia Sadeh is a Dallas-based visual artist whose work explores the intersection of painting and mental wellness, focusing on emotional authenticity, self-awareness, and the complexities of human connection. With a background in Art History and Printmaking/Drawing from Washington University in St. Louis, her practice integrates psychological theory and personal narrative to examine how emotional memory, trauma, and caregiving are passed down through generations.
Sadeh’s work is rooted in an exploration of mental health and the dynamic interplay between conscious thought and emotional depth. Her early paintings captured fleeting emotions through abstract layers of water-based media, often incorporating Venetian plaster as a way to build texture and depth.
Her most recent series, Generational Healing, explores attachment theory and epigenetics as she investigates how identity and emotional regulation are shaped by inherited experiences. She frequently centers these compositions on portraits of children—often family members—using their likenesses as entry points into intergenerational narratives. Through this lens, she highlights the validity and power of the maternal gaze in contemporary art, emphasizing care, vulnerability, and emotional nuance. Prior to her Generational Healing series, she created her House and Home series. This series personifies architectual structures in place of human forms as a nod to the need of personal sanctuary and concept of dometic attributes within human identities.
Her process often combines water-based media, Venetian plaster, and acrylics to create textured, layered surfaces. The interplay of spontaneous and deliberate mark-making mirrors the psychological tension between control and surrender. Figures are placed within symbolic, atmospheric environments that function as internal landscapes—spaces where healing, memory, and identity converge.
Sadeh views her painting as a form of visual music: abstract elements set an emotional rhythm while figurative forms act as lyrical anchors. Her work invites reflection on emotional inheritance and transformation, offering a contemplative space for dialogue around mental health, identity, and connection.
A defining characteristic of her work is the contrast between fluid, organic linework and precisely rendered forms. Her current paintings frequently integrate recognizable figures and architectural elements within abstracted landscapes—serving as visual metaphors for the relationship between the evolving authentic self and the ever-present internal dialogue.
She currently lives and works in Dallas, Texas, creating primarily on stretched canvas and cradled wood panels.