Sandy Palasti is a contemporary artist who lives in Charlotte, NC and Austin, TX. Born in New Jersey, Sandy pursued a career in Surgery and practiced Pediatric ENT in Charlotte for fourteen years before she retired at age 45. Since then, she has been a writer, a musician, and a ceramicist, finally finding her truest expression in abstract painting.
Her main body of work employs layered acrylics, pastels, and oils to explore the duality of personality that exists within all of us, finding inspiration in the space between the veiled and the opaque, symbolic of what we choose to show others versus what we hide. In her series of paintings of unconventional flowers, she explores the tension of being female in a field where emotions are downplayed by deconstructing floral elements, adding structure with gridded lines, and using a lot of powerful pink!
She lives with her husband and dogs in Charlotte, though never far from her daughter in Austin. Every morning, she is in her studio. In the afternoon, you'll find her out on some hiking trail, deep into her latest podcast obsession!
