Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Biography
A unique fusion of photography and painting, Isca Greenfield-Sanders' work creates a rich dialogue between abstraction and figuration, mechanical reproduction and handcraft, and narration and formalist visuality. Greenfield-Sanders fashions meditative narratives exploring themes of nostalgia, memory and collective ideals. Her use of digital media, combined with the traditional craft of oil painting involves transforming photographic material into oil paintings through an intricate process: She first scans and edits a found image, usually from family albums she finds in flea markets or yard sales, and then prints it onto paper, painting it with watercolor and color pencil. This watercolor is then made into a composite of square tiles.
Born in 1978, New York, NY, Greenfield-Sanders received B.A. degrees from Brown University in Visual Arts and Mathematics. In 2001, she was the Visiting Artist at the American Academy of Rome and has since received numerous solo exhibitions throughout Europe and the United States. Her work can be found in the following institutions: Guggenheim Museum, New York,; Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; and the Estee Lauder Corporation, New York, NY. Greenfield-Sanders lives and works in New York, NY.
Gallery Exhibitions
Isca Greenfield-Sanders, Red Boat Beaches - September 4 - 29, 2007 Isca Greenfield-Sanders, Sky of Blue, Sea of Green - September 15 - October 29, 2005
Artist Publications
Isca Greenfield-Sanders: Red Boat Beaches, Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Press
Sky of Blue, Sea of Green, ARTnews Magazine Download PDF (33 K)
Selected Works
Astoria, 2010 mixed media/oil on canvas 35 x 35 inches
Isca Greenfield-Sanders Star Island (2 Kids), 2009 mixed media/oil on canvas 56 x 56 inches
Isca Greenfield-Sanders Blue Suit Bather, 2006 color aquatint etching 32 x 31 1/4 inches ed. 15/50
Isca Greenfield-Sanders Green Suit Bather, 2006 color aquatint etching 32 x 31 1/4 inches ed. 14/50
Isca Greenfield-Sanders Red Suit Bather, 2006 color aquatint etching 32 x 31 1/4 inches ed. 12/50
Isca Greenfield-Sanders Yellow Suit Bather, 2006 color aquatint etching 32 x 31 1/4 inches ed. 6/50
Isca Greenfield-Sanders Bright Beach, 2008 Direct to plate photogravure and aquatint