Be it in oils or acrylics she portraits those spaces that call her attention. I perceive her paintings as eternal vacations, always very tranquil and with so much light, it makes you smile to stand in front of the work of this girl raised in Virginia but who now has had a good bit of time living in Mexico City. – Maria Videl (thegardenandthecity.blogspot.com)     Every year hundreds of Mexicans are found dead in the desert trying to cross the Mex-US boarder. Living in Amercia is still of one of the bestseller dreams here. When I met Sarita aka Sarah, I was very intrigued, because she was doing the opposite. As an American she left her country to live in Mexico City and paint quietly urban lansdcapes from her appartment. I do like the concept of reversed-immigration. – Yvan the Facehunter (facehunter.blogspot.com)

I received a BA in Latin American studies at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and learned how to paint with oils in Florence, Italy. There I also discovered a voice through painting my room and the sights from my window (and any other daily sights that bring me joy). Back in North Carolina I created Latino/a art education initiatives around the area to serve and learn from the ever-growing mostly Mexican population there and indoctrinated the young transmigrants into the school of room portraiture. Their vision prompted my move to Mexico City. The stint was so stimulating that instead of being inspired by the usual three sights a week there were about twenty a day that I wanted to capture in paintings. Mexico City was so visually moving because there is no design organization but rather the forms of everything- trees, houses, sidewalks, trash piles- tend to grow organically out of their functions. The practice of everyday life there creates sublime color combinations and jaunty juxtapositions of spiritual, commercial, natural, prec-Columbian, Spanish and contemporary international life. Inside, I built a home in Hotel Virreyes and painted my room there with the stunning expansive polluted populated city right outside my window. I paint with rich oils on paper cut-outs to capture beautiful moments in my surroundings. I have also sung with Pinche Gringo and orchestrated adventures with my friend Susie Simpson. They, along with my brother, David Dougherty, helped me recreate Mexico City at the Found Gallery in LA for the Spatial Reconstruction Project in July 2008. New romantic works were shown at Vacation Gallery and Boutique in Atlanta, Georgia in February and March, 2009. Now I live in Greensboro, North Carolina, and I'm still processing the changes the place has pressed into me. I work with Mexican and Salvadorian immigrant women with babies under three years old, interpreting and coordinating Mothers Groups for them. I teach Los Artistas and other art classes at The Center for Visual Artists and continue paintings some suddenly beautiful Greensboro moments. In the Fall I will go to Sunny L.A. for a Masters in Fine Arts at UCLA. Email me at sarahdough@gmail.com or message me at www.myspace.com/sarahdough. My work is available for purchase online at Found Gallery. Thank you for visiting.