Statement

"My recent works reflect the emotional changes I experienced after the birth of my first son. Through small and large ink drawings and collages, I recorded the experience of the new role I was thrust into. Having grown up with both parents involved in theater and film, I reflected on my own childhood and likened my experience to being a different character each day. Like a character on a stage, each drawing or collage is a self-contained world recording emotions such as bliss, anxiety, infatuation, melancholy, etc. They are drawn on maps, file-folders, and spare paper and were created with everyday materials such as ink, ball-point, white-out, markers, thread, etc. These materials represent the reality of a working woman in contrast to the interior, emotional battles being played out on the surface."

- Sara Cardona, 2009

Bio

Born in Mexico City, Sara Cardona moved to Texas and lives and works in Dallas. She received a B.A. from the Plan II Humanities Honors Program at the University of Texas at Austin in 1996, majoring in painting, with a minor in Latin American art. Sara received her M.F.A. in painting from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia in 2001. She taught drawing for the Tyler School of Art at their campus in Rome and attended the Skowhegan School of Sculpture and Painting in Maine. Sara is also the recipient of a Rockefeller Grant to study traditional wax mask-making techniques in Mexico City and an NEH grant recipient to study Asian theater in California. Sara Cardona creates mixed media work that is influenced by her relationship with the theater and film, which she grew up in and around.

Sara Cardona - gallery portfolio (.pdf, 1.1MB)
Sara Cardona - front-page article, Oak Cliff People, Oct 30, 2009 (.pdf, 106k)
Sara Cardona - resume (.pdf, 139k)