Fay Sciarra · Painter & Assemblage Artist
A life among antiques, made into art.
Stockton, New Jersey · Working since 1997.
Self-taught and shown from Los Angeles to Sag Harbor. Three decades of narrative paintings, collages, and sculptural works built directly onto found objects — washboards, violins, vintage windows, crazy quilts, the things others let go.
Outsider Art Fair·
New Hope Arts Center·
Princeton Arts Council·
Featured in Princeton Magazine
About the artist
Self-taught, with roots in contemporary folk and outsider art. Fay has exhibited from Los Angeles to Sag Harbor, with work in the collections of hundreds of collectors. She owns Umbrella Antiques & Modern, located on the second floor of the Tomato Factory in Hopewell, NJ.
Read full statement →Collection one
Recent Work
Paintings on canvas, narrative landscapes, and mixed-media work — ten pieces from the past few years.
From the studio
"My collages and assemblages incorporate lace and crazy quilts, folk art animals, leather books, clock faces, skulls, rhinestone jewelry, old porcelain toasters, hat forms, dress forms, antique purses, old doors. Sometimes fun and whimsical; other times reflections of my inner emotional journey toward wholeness."
Fay Sciarra · Read full statement →
Collection two
Found Objects
Sculptural assemblages built directly onto antique forms — hat blocks, dress forms, violin bodies, gameboards, antlered skulls. Ten pieces.
See work in person
The People's Store
28 N. Union Street
Lambertville, NJ
Curated furniture and objects alongside Fay's available work.
Lambertville, NJ
Curated furniture and objects alongside Fay's available work.
The antiques dealer space
Umbrella Antiques & Modern
Second floor, The Tomato Factory
2 Somerset Street, Hopewell, NJ
Fay's dealer space and a working source of the objects behind the art.
2 Somerset Street, Hopewell, NJ
Fay's dealer space and a working source of the objects behind the art.
The studio
The Barn, Stockton, NJ