Meet Sima.
Sima Schloss a New York City Native and Art History Professor, received her MFA in Painting and developed her signature style of gestural figuration using mixed media. Her capstone exhibition debuted at Lehman College Art Gallery 2017 in the Bronx, which launched her professional art career into other solo and group exhibitions and art fairs across the US.
Artist Statement
As an abstract artist working with gestural lines and portraiture, I am more interested in the internal life of the subject rather than the external. My mixed media work focuses on figures, and then I add layers using assemblage/collage from inspiration found in the many visual journals I have created over 25 years.
The figures truly take on a life of their own as I build up the layers. The abstraction moves the portraits, which allows me to create imagined beings. Rather than representing realistic portraiture, I break down my own experiences as I go through the moments in each studio session.