Sas Christian at The Shooting Gallery

by Scott Beale on October 9, 2006 · 8 comments

Sas Christian

Super realistic painter Sas Christian has a solo show of her new work at The Shooting Gallery in San Francisco that opens this Saturday, October 14th and runs through November 4th. The opening reception is also a book release party for her new book “Looking In: The Art of Sas Christian” by 9mm Books.

Here’s a description of Sas’ work by The Shooting Gallery’s Justin Giarla:

Sas Christian’s paintings are intense. Whether they‘re rich with vibrant colors or weighted with heavy emotion, they have always been thickly saturated with divine presence. Her concoction of pigments, oils, and varnishes is a masterful alchemy. Her natural talent transcends just mixing some colors together on a palette. It’s the kind of thing they don’t teach in art school. With this rare talent, Sas is able to achieve things with her paintings most artists only dream about in their wildest fantasies. She is able to get such command of her colors that she excels in creating such a life-like skin tone. Go ahead—try to pinch those cheeks—you know you want to. It almost feels like you can. In your mind’s eye, you can feel their young supple flesh. The skin is like toned porcelain. Their eyes look like glass mirrors and lips like candy.

Related Posts:

Skot Olsen’s Amazing Giant Squid Art at The Shooting Gallery

Flamethrower Shooting Gallery by Matisse & Roxie

Christian Williams: Digg Reality

The Drive-By Shooting Range at Burning Man 1994

Miami’s Harold Golen Gallery & Original Art Destroyed by Fire

filed under Art, Events, San Francisco

{ 4 comments… read them below or add one }

1 francis cost October 15, 2006 at 6:32 pm

I have a friend who is also an artist his good but compare to this painting this guy is awesome o how detailed his painting is. I never seen a painting that looks like a computer generated.

Reply

2 randi channel November 9, 2006 at 3:34 pm

Sas Christian is a woman.

Reply

3 MacKenzie briggs December 24, 2006 at 5:51 pm

can anyone direct me as to where I can buy a print of Sas’. I’ve tried e-mailing her and looking on E-bay with no luck. Thanks for any help

Reply

4 M. Pope September 13, 2007 at 2:01 pm

Her work is amazing and inspirational. She rocks!

Reply

Leave a Comment

You can use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

Please read our Comment Guidelines before leaving a comment:

Moderation: Because of comment spam issues, all comments are manually approved, so if your comment is approved it may take a while for your comment to appear on this blog post.

Name & Website Required: Due to rampant abuse, we are no longer posting anonymous comments. Please list your real name and provide a link to your website. If you don't have a website, then use a link to your account on Twitter, Flickr or some other form of web presence. With very few exceptions, comments that do not refernce include an actual name or url will not be approved.

Also when we ask for your name we mean your actual name, not Discount Car Products or some other attempt at spam or lame SEO.

Be Civil: Irrelevant, obnoxious or abusive comments will not be approved. Let's keep things civil and on topic. Basically what we are saying, if your comment does not add to the conversation, it will not be approved.

Spam: Spam comments in any form will not be approved. We also do not approve comments that left for the sole purpose of posting a link.

Corrections: If you want to point out a typo or correction, please email us instead. Typo or correction comments will not be approved since they are pretty much useless once they are corrected and then only tend to confuse things.

Gravatars: If you would like a Gravatar to show up with your comment? Just sign-up for an account and any comment with your email address will display your Gravatar.

Previous post: Google Buys YouTube For 1.6 Billion

Next post: Martin Scorsese’s Sesame Streets