Sarah Alfonso is a Miami raised artist currently living and working in Savannah, GA. She received her BFA in painting at Florida International University and is currently pursuing an MFA at Savannah College of Art and Design.

My work speaks to themes of isolation and personas, which simultaneously help us, navigate the everyday, while keeping our inner animal encaged. It is this snarled animal I’m most interested in. Jungian psychological models explain the Shadow as the negative attributes within conscious beings, and I tend to think of my work as a kind of Shadow work, or directly confronting and analyzing these negatives to better understand the psyche as a whole. Through the use of distortion, abstraction and omission, a narrative of loss, foreboding and hopelessness is created. I strive to depict a truer version of the psyche, the hidden darkness underlying human experience, the façade of decency often worn as a mask; I strive to rip this away and explore the internal landscape. This theme underscores nearly all my work, with iterations involving family, and relationships in general.