Sarah Blumenfeld
Sarah Blumenfeld is an American artist working in charcoal and oil. Her artwork combines classical figurative training with more contemporary expression.
Painting within the tradition of realism and often from a full-frontal perspective offers a powerful moral counterforce to the world’s current climate of false narrative and dissociation. Sarah’s artwork presents the urgent observations of an artist awakening and sharpening her senses. Both her naked gaze, and her gaze at nakedness, signify the dropping of veils and looking boldly at the world without artifice or shame.
In 2017, Sarah Blumenfeld imagined and and co-founded the Gateway Academy of Classical Art, in St. Louis, Missouri, recognizing her community’s need for a challenging skill-based traditional art curriculum and a place for artists to draw and paint from life every day.
After retiring from her work at GACA during the pandemic, Sarah intensified her studio practice, painting from life and continuing her art studies around the United States and abroad. Her creative influences include the artists Velasquez, Manet, Picasso, and Neel, numerous poets and writers, and her experiences as a mother, a writer, a poet, a lawyer, and a teacher of history, law and literature.