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SYDNEY
ACOSTA 

Sydney Acosta 
New Wight Gallery May 10-21, 2021 

Sydney Acosta was born in 1987 and raised in San Antonio aka Yanaguana in Texas. Graduating from UCLA in June 2021, she also studied at San Antonio College, California State University, Sacramento and Columbia University.

She can be contacted at sydedu@gmail.com

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Gallery view with strawberries, purple moon rising, and idyllos

Gallery view with cempasuchil, salzburg and black flower

Gallery view with horse and flower

gallery view with votive painting and flask

gallery view with stumped drawings and when she pulls out her screaming

gallery view of trees

gallery view of strawberries and autumn

Stumped, a selection from a drawing series, charcoal on newsprint, 2018 An installation of a series of drawings, unfixed charcoal on newsprint paper each 24x36 inches. There are 25 of 52 shown hanging on the wall in this iteration. The drawings were done as short daily meditations recounting the walk from my home to the studio.
Stumped
a selection from a drawing series, charcoal on newsprint
2018
An installation of a series of drawings, unfixed charcoal on newsprint paper
each 24x36 inches. There are 25 of 52 shown hanging on the wall in this
iteration. The drawings were done as short daily meditations recounting the
walk from my home to the studio.
Stumped, detail
Stumped detail
abstract drawing of red swirls on a woman’s body seen from behind and a green pattern at the bottom
When she pulls out her hair screaming
pastel on paper
40 x 30 inches
2019
Landscape painting of an erupting volcano with fluorescent flowers emerging on the right
Volcano
oil on wood
40 x 30 x 1 ½ inches
2020
Multicolored painting of a tree
autumn- (glowing money tree)
oil on canvas
75 x 96 x 1 ¼ inches
2021
Ephemeral painting of an orange tree with blueish silver frame on the left and right side accompanied by a string of strawberries on the lower left hand corner
Untitled (strawberries) 🍓
78 x 96 x 1 ¼ inches
2021
strawberries detail
strawberries detail
Yellow, black and blue drawing of a large hovering flower
Flower
oil and charcoal on paper
85 x 90 inches
2020
flower detail
flower detail
Multicolored painting of a tree with dollar signs floating in the foliage of the tree on a blue background
$500000
oil on canvas  
16 x 20 x ½ inches
2021
Tree painted in White dark blue green and brown with intermingled dollar signs floating inside the foliage of the tree on a brown background
$500000 (white brown and green)
oil on canvas
16 x 20 x ½ inches
2021
Atmospheric painting of a purple tree
$50000 (purple tree)
oil on linen
16 x 20 x ¾ inches
2021
Tree painted with a variety of hues of green and intermingled dollar signs arching over the canopy of the tree
$50000 (green and silver)
oil on linen
16 x 20 x ¾ inches
2021
Black and white drawing of a horse dog with front leg fragmented
Stag drawing
charcoal on paper
21 x 32 ½ x 1 ½ inches
2019
Black and white painting of a beaker broken near the top with a pattern of flowers coming out at the top left
Flask
oil on wood
40 x 30 x 1 ½ inches
2020
Painting of large orange marigold flowers in a green and blue space
Cempasúchil
oil on wood
60 x 48 x 1 ½ inch
2019
Green and red painting of a camouflaged figure in a dark landscape with an upside down monstera leaf hovering over a single flame of light in the center
Untitled (Salzburg)
oil on wood
60 x 48 x 1 ½ inch
2019
Multicolored landscape painting with fire on the bottom edge of the painting
The tower
oil on canvas
9 ½ x 23 x 1 inch
2019
Drawing of veiled table with scattered collection of small votive objects that include a sailboat, crosses, leaves, storm clouds, lips, stars, legs, weed leaf, broken bottle, flowers and a horse
Votive Painting
oil and charcoal on paper
99 x 99 inches
2020
votive painting detail
Votive painting detail
Yellow, red and black painting of a large flower with a painted frame
Black flower
oil on wood
40 x 30 x 1 ½ inches
2020
Large drawing of a landscape using grey charcoal with a tree rising at center and a purple moon moving from left to right at the top, columns of black at far left and right, with the figure of a child in a red dress standing smiling in the lower right corner
Untitled child’s dream purple moon rising
oil and charcoal on paper
99 x 180 inches
2019

Large drawing depicting many figures in different states of violent embodiment in a domestic space at right showing a dresser of pink drawers and in a dark landscape at left
The banality of beasts
oil and charcoal on paper
99 x 200 inches
2019
idyllos
Idyllos
oil and charcoal on paper
99 x 180 inches
2019
Large drawing of a fragmented landscape with fragments of figures that include a horse, a child, a hand, a thigh, a dog, a face, a cow, and a tree stump
idyllos detail
Sketchy white, red, and green painting of man reclining and drinking in the corner of a room
Borrachera
oil on linen
18 x 25 x ¾ inches
2021
Multicolored painting of a tree at center in rainbow colors with two larger trees at left and right. Pink and red roses on long stems in the middle of the center tree
Upside down rainbow money trees
oil on canvas
68 x 74 x 1 ¼ inches
2021
Multicolor compositional painting of a rocking horse in a window hovering over a green floor from an interior space
Horse
oil on wood
40 x 30 x 1 ½ inches
2020
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All photos by Max Cleary
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