Sandy Sanders

I am a contemporary visual artist living and working in Eugene. I started my studies in San Francisco were I grew up, and Los Angeles in the early 70's with an MFA from Otis Art Institute in 1979, showing a Street Series of installation works until 1983. During my studies at Art Center and Otis in LA, I had the great fortune to study under and be surrounded by numerous, brilliant LA Area instructor and student artists, and their ideas. Those intellectual skills studied and discussed in that environment are the foundation of my art practice. Meanwhile, I made a living as a graphic artist & designer in the SF Bay Area until 2009, when I was able to return to visual arts production full time.

My work is subject based, conceptual, that folds into processes, media and materials that I like to use. Social issues and the plight of Humanity attempting to evolve to an egalitarian adult present, is very important to me. I gravitate toward unusual or mundane materials, found objects and such. Handling, feel and appropriateness to subject, as much as economic limits have driven my materials selections. Everyday materials are perceived as familiar, useful and pragmatic, something easily related to.

I have numerous series of works as processes that remain in play. Objects of urban street in installation. Analysis of picture making. Formalist non-objective composition of visual elements. Post-industrial urban and archetype photography. Social activism as visual awareness. Detournment. Capitalism Sucks Art Show. Street art of all kinds. Functional arts. Currently, Train Graffiti as collective art project. (See this excellent interview with the Daily Emerald.)

https://sandys.art/pdf/resume_current.pdf

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