Anastacia Sadeh is a Dallas-based visual artist whose work investigates embodiment, perception, and human connection. Drawing on somatic observation and lived experience, she translates internal states—sensations, emotions, and shifting awareness—into layered painterly structures that move between abstraction and figuration.
Sadeh earned a
Anastacia Sadeh is a Dallas-based visual artist whose work investigates embodiment, perception, and human connection. Drawing on somatic observation and lived experience, she translates internal states—sensations, emotions, and shifting awareness—into layered painterly structures that move between abstraction and figuration.
Sadeh earned a double major in Art History and Printmaking/Drawing from Washington University in St. Louis. After teaching fine arts in Atlanta, she relocated to St. Paul, Minnesota, where she joined AZ Gallery, an artist-run cooperative. Her background in printmaking continues to inform her painting through an emphasis on process, accumulation, and surface.
Working primarily on canvas and cradled wood panels, Sadeh builds compositions using water-based media and Venetian plaster, creating dense, tactile surfaces where gesture and materiality remain visible. Abstract mark-making, intuitive color, and recurring figurative and architectural elements coexist within shifting interior landscapes. Figures emerge, dissolve, or contain abstraction, suggesting movement between external environments and internal experience.
Her work explores the emotional and perceptual structures through which experience is felt, remembered, and understood.
My paintings begin with observation—not of the external world, but of internal experience. Through somatic awareness and sustained attention to sensation, emotion, and shifting states of consciousness, I use painting as a way of engaging with the subtle and often fleeting aspects of perception.
Working primarily on canvas and cradled wood
My paintings begin with observation—not of the external world, but of internal experience. Through somatic awareness and sustained attention to sensation, emotion, and shifting states of consciousness, I use painting as a way of engaging with the subtle and often fleeting aspects of perception.
Working primarily on canvas and cradled wood panels, I build surfaces through layered applications of water-based media and Venetian plaster. My background in printmaking continues to inform this process through an emphasis on layering, texture, and the physical presence of the work.
The resulting paintings move between abstraction and figuration. Intuitive color, gestural mark-making, and recurring figurative and architectural forms emerge within shifting interior landscapes. Figures may traverse these spaces, dissolve into them, or contain them, blurring distinctions between inner and outer worlds.
Each painting develops through a dialogue between observation, material response, and chance, allowing moments of recognition to surface within fields of ambiguity. I am interested in the spaces where sensation, perception, memory, and human connection intersect.