Richard Saja

“Vibrantly colored hand embroidery expands on the original metaphor of a historic toile, amplifying the indomitable spirit and individualism on display everywhere in contemporary American life.”

-Richard Saja

An artist based in upstate New York, Richard Saja worked as an art director on Madison Avenue before switching gears and opening up a small design firm of his own, Historically Inaccurate Decorative Arts. Passionate about embroidery, he occasionally explores forms of expression beyond the needle, although the majority of his work focuses on creating “interferences” of the formal patterns of French toile through intricately embroidered embellishments. Saja has exhibited his work internationally in Paris, London, and Berlin, as well as at the National Museum of Embroidery in South Korea and at the Toile de Jouy Museum in France.