Sarita Reynolds
For over 25 years, Sarita Reynolds has explored the interplay between time, texture, and memory. Her paintings are held in private and corporate collections across the United States and Canada. Born in Toronto and now based in Santa Barbara, Sarita has built a reputation as a commission-based abstract contemporary painter whose works invite close, almost investigative observation.
“My work invites viewers to ask, ‘What is this?’—and then, ‘What was this?’ I’m drawn to the layered histories a surface can hold, and the legacies it quietly reveals.”
Her creative process, which she calls deconstructive, begins with an act of creation—plaster and house paint applied in rich, textured strata—followed by an intentional undoing. Sarita claws, scrapes, and peels away at the surface, revealing fragments of hidden color and fleeting imagery. Each mark carries the trace of what came before, blurring the line between construction and erosion.
The result is work that feels at once raw and refined—tactile fields of distress and surprising delicacy, permanence and impermanence. In Sarita’s hands, a surface becomes both a record and a question, a place where beauty emerges through the evidence of its own making and unmaking, holding beauty in its scars.
Working primarily with plaster, house paint, and mixed media, Reynolds builds her compositions in successive layers—applying, scraping, sanding, and excavating pigment until traces of past gestures begin to emerge. This cyclical act of making and unmaking gives her paintings a palpable sense of history, where every mark feels like an artifact of time passing.
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