"Painting with a distorted perspective, I am able to bring the viewer into someone else’s life. By working this way, I evoke empathy to lessen stigmas that society has created. Many times people wish to keep their distance from these issues, because they aren’t appropriate or they don’t affect them directly. However, by painting psychological themes, I force the viewer into accepting a reality that isn’t necessarily their own. This creates an intersection between alienation and universality, as it pertains to human existence."
Sandra Theoharatos, or Sunny Bo is a graduate student at Colorado State University, focusing on professional development in Arts Leadership and Cultural Management. A recent cross-country move to Seattle, WA has re-ignited her passion for the performing and visual arts. As well as arts advocacy and local policy.
Although she is more conceptually serious as an oil painter, she enjoys expanding her works and continuously finds inspiration from her personal experiences, color, technique, and the surrounding environment.
Having been a dancer for most of her life, she finds comfort and belonging in the arts community. Sunny looks forward to continuing her work, becoming a bridge builder to foster connections while supporting the arts and artists through an equitable lens. She is excited to see where this new journey in Seattle will take her, as she ties together her passions for the arts, anthropology, culture, entrepreneurship, and education.