Tara Sood Fine Art

Tara Sood was born in Littleton, New Hampshire. She travels and lives around the world along with her navy husband and 3 boys. Since 2011 she has participated in group shows locally, nationally, and internationally.  In recent years she has exhibited with the Academy of Art University (San Francisco, California), the California Art Club, the American Impressionist Society, Laguna Plein Air Painter’s Association, the Randy Higbee Gallery (Irvine, California), and the Oceanside Museum of Art.  Internationally, she was selected to show in the 2019 Okiten competition in Okinawa, Japan and during 2021 a selection of her works along with works by members of West Coast Drawing began an ongoing gallery tour through Taiwan.  She has been a finalist in the Members Show of the Portrait Society of America in 2020 and 2021 and took 3rd place in the “Expressions, Feelings, and Gestures” Excellence in Fine Art Exhibition through the California Art Club in 2022.  In January 2022, she was a part of a 5-person show featuring the Mission Trails Regional Park, San Diego.  Living in Guam from 2021 to 2024, she had her inaugural solo show, Twirl, at the Lees-Reyes Gallery, Tumon, in April 2023.  She showed regularly at the Lees-Reyes Gallery and through the Guam Museum and the Isla Center for the Arts through UOG – University of Guam. 

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Tara is passionate about working from life and is drawn to the figure as it interacts with the environment.   She states, ‘I think in paint’. The textural opaque qualities of oil paint on linen or canvas allows her brush to leave its mark and to build up layers of color that are analogous to the depth and psychology of her subjects. She works in an organic process often creating multiple renditions of a piece in charcoal or oil paint. She graduated with a Master's degree in Fine Art – Painting and Drawing in the fall of 2018 from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, California.  She teaches art and taught regularly through her studio, workshops through the gallery, Art Center in Guam, and as an adjunct professor in the art department at the University of Guam.