Sareka Unique is an abstract artist living and working in Ypsilanti, Michigan. She paints intuitively and uses color as a tool that brings happiness through her work. Using a variation of strokes and marks Sareka allows the colors to playfully come together until they are satisfied with their new home and a new painting has emerged. With serendipitous mark and expressions Sareka invites you to experience Perfectly Unique a collection of abstract portraits that highlights the beauty and individuality of black women. 

Sareka Grew up in Detroit Michigan and studied Visual Communication Technology at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Later, she fell in love with Illustration and Surface Pattern Design and eventually gave into her calling to paint. Since then Sareka Unique has been using her love of color to transform products and create artwork that evokes a sense of vibrancy and joy.

Artist Statement

Color can be used as a tool that evokes our emotions, it has a way of telling us how we should feel and what we should think. It was once said by Georgia O’Keeffe that somethings can only be said with color and shapes.  I use color as a way to bring happiness through my paintings. 

Inspired by how we are each fearfully and wonderfully made and realizing how unique each one of our lives are I created 27 unique abstract portraits of black women that celebrates the beauty and individuality that is present in each of us. I invite everyone to experience Perfectly Unique and see themselves in the uniqueness of each portrait.