Sondra Rosenberg is an artist and art therapist based in the Mt. Airy neighborhood of Philadelphia. I studied visual art at Oberlin College and earned my MA in art therapy at NYU. Working in a range of media and subject matter, I create art for both personal expression, private commissions, and in support of organizations that promote social justice and community development.
For the past two decades, I have worked as an art therapist, guiding women through a process of accessing and finding visual language for their inner worlds. My own art practice has been deeply influenced by that approach to creating images. I use whatever mediums best enable me to capture specific timbres of feeling – sometimes paint, sometimes combinations of pencil, pastels, watercolor, text, and objects. I am interested in the fixed visual expression of shifting mental and emotional states and the ways in which interiors are revealed through surfaces.
I am currently open to commissions in the areas of memorial portraits, house portraits, pet portraits, and creative imaginings in need of an artist to realize. Each commission is approached with an eye toward capturing the unique qualities and spirits of the subjects, imbuing each work with a deep sense of authenticity and emotional resonance.
Group Shows
Feeling Blue, Abington Art Center, Abington PA
Juried Exhibition featuring my drawing, The Things John Berger Can't See, 2024Spring Exhibition, reCreated =Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Juried Exhibition featuring my paintings, Grief and Neglect, 2024Philadelphia Black History: The People's Stories, City of Philadelphia Office of Arts, Culture, and the Creative Economy, Philadelphia, PA
Juried Exhibition featuring my painting, Portrait of Robert Shair White, 2024Souls Shot Portrait Project, traveling exhibit featuring portraits of lives lost to gun violence, featuring my painting, Portrait of Robert Shair White, 2023 - 2024
Exhibitions and Publications
Artful Expressions of the Mind (Mental Health Portraits), Purple Octopus Art, online juried exhibit, includes my mixed media painting “Neglect,” 2023
Animals, Light Space & Time Online Juried Exhibit
Includes my painting The Dancer, 2023Mood. Animals with Attitude, Wild Heart Gallery Online Juried Exhibit
Includes my paintings “Greta’s Dream” (received honorable mention award) and “Paws Up”, 20237th Annual Colors Exhibition, Fusion Art, online juried exhibit,
Includes my painting “Grief”, 2023Not Your Mother’s Breast Milk, online journal, featured 6 drawings entitled “Repetitive Behavior” for their mental health awareness issue, 2019
Featured Member at The American Art Therapy Association, includes my drawing “Repetitive Behavior IV: Triggered/Torn”, 2019
Anastamos, online literary magazine, featured 3 drawings from Repetitive Behavior series in Dis/Order issue, 2018
Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, my painting Emotional Manipulation III: Enchantment appeared on the cover, 2014
Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA, solo show entitled “Emotional Manipulation” in conjunction with their Art Therapy Open House, 2013