Visual Surface
My name is Beatricia Sagar and I’m an artist working in Miami Beach. I was born in the Bronx, N.Y. and lived where an Elevated train traveled very close to our windows. This train cast a shadow of darkness over the neighborhood. It didn’t seem possible that there was anything on the other side of the train. When I was 13, one day, I discovered accidentally that there was an amazing park on the other side. In the park, there was, the now famous, New York Botanical gardens. It was there I discovered a world of light, and it was where I started to draw and paint. When I moved to Manhattan, I found myself in a world alive with art and artists. I had a large loft in what is now SoHo and even though I was able to show my work here and there it was difficult to find my way into New York Galleries I began to take the initiative and my motto was, “Do a body of work and find a place to show it”. I began to show my work in my loft, in restaurants, and other unique spaces. Even though the loft...