Memories often exist in a weightless and groundless context, which can only be shaped by time and sentiment. My work redefines subconscious memory in a new compositional context by allowing figurative images and objects to emerge from support surfaces that are layered, torn, scraped and scumbled. Familiar images emerge from edges and textures with new importance, delineated in charcoal and ink.

News: Literary magazines Zahir and the New Works Review selected paintings by Sarah Beth Goncarova for the covers of their June and October 2008 issues.

Biography: Sarah Beth Goncarova earned her BFA in sculpture and extended media, from Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts and a Master’s degree in Architecture from the University of Maryland. Since childhood, her life has been influenced by her love of classical music, which bears significantly in her visual art. Her work features people, usually in pairs, who are connected by an unspoken tension. She strives to create work that is striking and complex yet accessible to the viewer.

A pianist, cellist, sculptor and architect by training, for the last few years Goncarova has turned her concentration to painting and ceramics. Her music art card line “Symphonia,” featuring her own paintings are now being sold in symphony stores and concert halls all over the United States and in the United Kingdom. She continually shows in galleries throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley, and has shown in New York, Washington, DC and in Germany. She has work in numerous private collections in the US and abroad. She currently is working on illustrating a children’s book due to be published in 2009.