SIGRID SANDSTRÖM

Sandström describes her recent paintings, as “being created without a preconceived notion of a given place, and neither are they illustrative of imaginary places. Instead, while working in the studio, the immediacy of the painting practice establishes a place, in and of itself. This notional place develops through the haptic process of painting. The cumulative activity of adding layer-upon-layer is the evidential aftermath of mental engagement, which in turn insinuates and provokes the next painterly response. Thereby this active place of meaning is redolent with discoveries and surprises. Each painting is a visual moment and vice versa. Recurrent in the paintings are areas of under-determinacy; white expanses that could be suggestive of beginnings or as reconsiderations: literal blank sheets.”

Sandström is the 2008 recipient of The Joan Mitchell Foundation: Painters & Sculptors Grant as well as the 2008 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, New York, NY.

Exhibition March 14 - April 18, 2009