Serena Saunders

Philadelphia-bred painter Serena Saunders is a mixed-media artist. Though her concentration is in portraiture, Saunders also has meaningful work in the areas of sculpture and writing. With a fresh, color-strong perspective her art speaks to our human condition, most notably that of our society’s youth and women. Her often large-scale, abstractly bold and poetically composed paintings offer layers of narrative—almost as if the poet and the painter in her are collaborating. With a color palette that gives her intricate prints a world of their own, Saunders works to intrigue the imagination, documenting the truth of the present but also speaking to what’s possible in the spirit. This can most recently be seen in her mural work. Being able to directly serve her community with her art in this new way has inspired a pivotal point in her studio practice as she leans into working larger.