About Sasha Tai

Sasha Tai is a self-taught painter who is a 3rd generation Chinese-American from Redmond, Washington.

In the summer of 2023 Sasha was invited by a friend to hang out and paint at Centro Cultural Mexicano’s open teen art studio in Redmond.  Enjoying the community atmosphere there, Sasha continued to bring in an oil portrait to work on for the duration of that summer.  The Executive Director of Centro watched Sasha’s progress and asked her if she had completed other paintings.  Sasha replied that she had completed many.  This is how Sasha at just 17 years old was granted a public solo exhibition showcasing 22 of her artworks that included her oil and watercolor paintings as well as illustrations. 

Sasha continues to work towards her BFA in Art as a student at Cornish College of the Arts at Seattle University.

Artist Statement:

As an artist and observer, I believe that there are so many ways that our thought patterns and internal rhythms parallel the cycles of nature and invoke this sense of liveliness. Through my art, I aspire to portray this feeling as a whole in not just the portrait, but the entire painting. In particular, I’ve always been drawn to painting portraits because of how much emotion can be expressed through the facial expressions of the models, invoking feelings that wouldn’t be able to be fully conveyed through a landscape or a still life. Additionally, mixing and connecting different plants, elements, and objects to the people in my paintings  represents this inherent connectivity between ourselves and the world around us, something that is able to be shown in many different ways. I aim to shine a light on things, both physically and conceptually, that I feel we should pay more attention to as a society. 

Email:

sashataiart@gmail.com

Instagram:

@sasha_tai_art