Baker Artist Portfolios

Sarah Curry is a Baltimore city native and a former high school technology and math teacher with ten years combined experience working at both private and city schools and for non-profits. She taught Website Design, Computer Applications, Java, C++ Object Oriented Programming, Introduction to BASIC Programming, an Intro to Law class, and Geometry.

While earning her Bachelors Degree in Information Systems at the College of Notre Dame Of Maryland, she took as many art classes as she could.

Over the years her primary art output has been in Portraiture and Figure Drawing and Painting, which she still enjoys today, honing her skills part-time at the Schuler School of Fine Art and at MICA night life drawing sessions.

For the past few years though, she has worked independently painting much larger works with the guidance and support of a few close artist friends and mentors. The work has been challenging, much more physical than she had imagined, and frustrating to say the least, working out of a small apartment, but ultimately very rewarding.

The challenge for her has been to incorporate figures into those new abstract backgrounds. She found that choosing the right background and superimposing figures on top using the patterns, strokes and rhythms already in place works best. 

Her new love of poetry has crept into her art as well. Poetry has expanded her mind about the way a painting can be approached like a story, or an allegory, or with symbols and dream images. She includes some of her own poems in the Projects to help the viewer understand the painting better. 

Most of the large surreal and abstract paintings were done without paint brushes, but were achieved by using her fingers— a little trick she uses so her mind stays focused on the bigger picture and does not get lost in the parts or obsess over the details. Also, this is a more personal and intimate way for her to work. She likes the energy moving straight from her hands and fingers directly to the canvas or wood panel. Sometimes she uses her fingernails to scratch into the paint to create more movement and texture.   

In the future, she hopes to continue on her path and further explore and produce more surreal and semi-abstract, poetry-inspired art including animals, which are her new passion.