Sarah Zar

Sarah Zar (born Sarah Gonek) is an American visual artist, songwriter, performance artist, curator, and musical saw player. She has been active in publishing writing, showing art, and performing music in New York and beyond since 1998. She is the granddaughter of Rose Zar and is based in Brooklyn, New York.

In 2022, Zar exhibited her artwork at the Guilford Art Center in a show titled, "Bigger on the Inside: A Gestalt in One Room".[1] That year, she designed the cover of the novel Water Under the Bridge: A Sort-of Love Story by author Jen Payne.[1]

Art

Zar's work has been showcased in various venues including Sloan Fine Art, Denise Bibro Fine Art, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Sideshow Gallery, under bridges, on boats, and The Highline Ballroom. Her paintings have received numerous awards in NY, and her other visual works range from installations, drawings, collages, and sculptures to spatial design and letters to strangers. She also teaches Contemporary Art and Aesthetics at Montclair State University.

Sarah Zar's work is akin to that of a migratory bird, traditional yet nomadic in creating novels through painting, characterized by its colorful use of dream logic.

Writing

Sarah Zar's writing debuted in 1998 in the Hazmat Literary Review by Norm Davis and has since been published in various formats, including:

  • Riddled With Spots by Sarah Zar and Charles Whymper, 1st ed., New York: A. Keck, NY.
  • ONandOnScreen
  • Featured Visitor at The Kelly Writers House, where she discussed "The language of technology in contemporary post-modern fiction for 'After David Foster Wallace'".

Awards

  • Graduate Citation – Montclair State University
  • First Place in the Fence Select Exhibition, Arts Center of Troy – Troy, NY
  • The Roanne Kulakoff Award for Painting – Albany, NY
  • Art Departmental Award for Drawing and Painting – S.U.N.Y. Albany
  • Presidential Scholarship and University Honors Scholarship – S.U.N.Y. Albany
  • Bradley Smith Art Purchase Award for Sculpture – Rochester, NY
  • Grant for a 2-year Caste Drawing Apprenticeship with Lori Harpole – Rochester, NY

Publications

  1. ^ a b "Branford author reaches out to old love online, writes about it in new novel". New Haven Register. February 4, 2022. ProQuest 2625303545. Retrieved July 28, 2024.

References

"Shayfer James - Hell of a Dream (Official Lyric Video), 2025". YouTube. July 31, 2025.

"Tableau Vivant of the Delirium Constructions - Skylight One Hanson, 2011". IMDB.

Three Chairs Publishing (February 12, 2022). "Book Signing & Art Exhibit with Author Jen Payne and Artist Sarah Zar". News 8 WTNH.

"A Tale of Two Stories in Guilford: Author and Artist Connect at Guilford Art Center". Patch, Guilford, CT. February 22, 2022. Retrieved February 22, 2022.

Hong Kong Art Tutoring. "Artist of the Week – Sarah Zar. Fine Artist". Hong Kong. Retrieved August 31, 2015.

McKenzie Johnston. "Interview with Cover Artist Sarah Zar". Apex Book Company. Retrieved September 15, 2010.

"Art and Design Students Create Public Mural for Montclair: Collaboration between University and Montclair Arts Council yields work of art for the Township of Montclair". Montclair State University. Retrieved September 15, 2010.

"C.V. and Publications". Montclair State University. Retrieved August 18, 2025.

"Sarah Zar Music". ReverbNation. Retrieved August 18, 2025.

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