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ArtSouth and the Village of Palmetto Bay are beginning a new season of local artist exhibitions with a display of the work of Sara Alfaro. Opening night for the exhibit will take place on Saturday Sept. 13, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., at Perrine Community House
A Miami-based mixed-media artist, Alfaro explores the “quiet language of the body and how posture, gesture and stance can speak without words.”
She uses collage, layered transparencies and repeated forms to create figures that radiate identity, presence and emotion through subtle movement.
Alfaro holds a Master of Fine Arts and Education from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, as well as a Museum Education Certification earned through an internship at Harvard.
Her work often features overlapping silhouettes and fragmented forms, suggesting the invisible energy shared between people who move through the same space. She believes we each emit a kind of emotional frequency, a color or imprint that blends with those around us.
Sara Alfaro has taught art for more than 30 years to children, teens and adults, including the past 10 years at True North Classical Academy. She lives and creates in Miami with her family, where teaching and making art remain a constant, inspiring balance. She has won several awards of merit and grants. She has also exhibited her art internationally.
Alfaro says she is looking forward to this new exhibit.
“I’m so excited,” she said. “Maybe because I’m an art teacher and a lot of my students and parents and faculty live in that area so I’m excited just to be able to have an exhibition that’s really close so they can come and visit…so it was really exciting to just be able to have a space here.”
She has a variety of types of work, many of which will be on display at Perrine Community House.
“At this point I’ve got five different styles that I simultaneously work on. I do mostly palette knife work with acrylic paint. I normally do a lot of gestural work and so it’s mostly figurative. My son is into digital and he’s starting to teach me how to fuse what I’m doing with digital and it’s really incredibly empowering.”
She appreciates the fact that ArtSouth and the village are hosting area artists.
“I think it’s so fantastic that they invite artisans in to showcase their work because usually you have to go through an extensive thing. It takes eight months to even two years sometimes just to get an exhibition in any place,” she said.
“A lot of my friends are educators and we’re so preoccupied with teaching art during the school year that a lot of times it’s really hard to keep up with applications and things. This is such a wonderful opportunity for me, not just as an artist but an art educator, to be able to have this venue to be able to expose my work.”
Alfaro said that a lot of her work is done in collaboration with her students, and many of her students will be attending the event.
Examples of her work can be seen on her artist website at https://www.saraalfaro.com/.
Perrine Community House is located at 900 Perrine Ave. in Palmetto Bay.
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