Sara Kissing
Sara Kissing
Naples, FL
www.kissing.art
Instagram: @kisssing.art
About the Artist
My art style varies from realism, and expressionism to pop art. Today, the street art of Banksy and pop art culture around Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Roy Lichtenstein influence my compositions. I am a contemporary artist, and for every painting, I use different media: acrylics, oil, dry pastels, charcoal, and markers. My art style constantly changes, just like my life. My art is a journal of my life. Many of my recent works are a mixture of an urban, pop art style that fuses painted, drawn, and photographic elements that I manipulate in photoshop and collage onto the canvases. I paint and collage, adding different layers to create depth and texture and use bold, vibrant colors. Living in San Francisco contributed a lot to my artistic expression. The dazzling, loud colors of the city. The constant change of scenery while driving up and down the streets. The energy that is released by the beautiful landscape in and around the city. As an artist, I am constantly inspired by urban architecture and the present urban lifestyle. I can even find inspiration by looking at street signs. You will find letters, words, and sentences in my art because I have a great passion for typography and include words and letters that have importance to me as design elements in my paintings. Sometimes you will even find humorous and nonsense statements that have nothing to do with the artwork I am creating because life is fun, and art is fun. Life is so much easier when you find humor and laugh a lot. For me, art is anything creative, innovative, unconventional, passionate, and personal. I communicate through my paintings and I want my audience to be inspired and feel the dynamic energy and the vibe of happiness that my artworks exude.
