Influenced significantly by Post-Impressionism and Expressionism, Sharpe’s work depicts concepts independent of time and events, presenting its own origin and mythology stories. Combining aspects of classical technique with modern expression, her work captures phantasmagoric images of figures reconfigured for an era verged on the precipice of madness. Tara Sharpe’s work complicates perceptions of beauty and myth using color in layered opacities. In Fall 2013, Sharpe founded the award winning project Artelphx (now Artelshow.) Exhibited and collected throughout the world, her work evolves with a consistent theme: The beauty and darkness inherent in the feminine divine. After living in New York for over a decade, she was drawn to the austere beauty of the Sonoran Desert, relocating to Phoenix, Arizona. Sharpe received a full scholarship for a Fine Art Residency at The School of Visual Arts in Manhattan. Sharpe’s formal art education started at Dreyfoos School of the Arts and she began exhibiting soon after, often creating wearable sculpture for the openings. 15, providing people the opportunity to submit online altar dedications to be printed and placed on a Scottdale Dia de Los Muertos Altar, added the release.Tara Sharpe was born in West Palm Beach, Florida and spent her formative years between the ocean along the Gold Coast and the mountains of Appalachia. In addition to mural art panels painted by top-tier artists from the Arizona Collective, there will be art panels from Los Angeles and Mexico City introduced this year, noted the release.Ĭo-curator Lucretia Torva,Local famed artists Lalo Cota, father and son team Such and Champs, Tato Caraveo, Darrin Wardle, Maggie Keane, David Morgan, Tara Sharpe, and more local artists will be featured.Īltars will be on display with traditional offerings, noted the release.Īn online social media ofrendas offering campaign will be launched on Oct. Scottsdale Dia de Los Muertos, the release said, unites world-class artists and the local community to create what is described as a vibrant, visually entertaining, cross cultural experience.įollowing the 2019 success and tripling in size of the third annual event, the Covid-19 pandemic postponed further expansion until 2021, forcing an intimate, scaled-down Scottsdale Dia de Los Muertos Art-Installation walk through experience with Covid-19 health and safety protocols, plus social distance precautions in place, the release said. The city’s official Dia de Los Muertos annual tradition returns to Old Town with a new intimate art installation walk-through experience on the The Old Adobe Mission grounds for attendees to see fine-art installations, Mesoamerican inspired sculptures, and traditional altars. The free, walk-through event celebrates the ancient tradition of Dia de Los Muertos, commonly known as “Day of The Dead," according to a press release. The Adobe Mission is the ‘heart’ of Scottsdale and the ideal sacred setting to remember the dearly departed with specific emphasis on recent victims of the Covid-19 pandemic,” said Robert Ramirez, Scottsdale Dia de Los Muertos founder/Lore Media and Arts spokesperson, in a prepared statement. “This year’s Dia de Los Muertos will have an even stronger symbolic presence in Old Town. The only official outdoor Dia de Los Muertos observance, held at First Street in Old Town Scottsdale, LORE Media & Arts and the Old Adobe Mission will present the fourth annual Scottsdale Dia de los Muertos Art Installation Experience. Scottsdale Dia de Los Muertos annual celebration is 9 a.m.
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