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Isca Greenfield-Sanders Pink Lake, 2024

Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Pink Lake, 2024
Mixed media oil on canvas
34 x 34 inches

Isca Greenfield-Sanders Aerial Beach, 2024

Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Aerial Beach, 2024
Mixed media oil on canvas
51 x 51 inches

Isca Greenfield-Sanders Sailboat, 2021

Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Sailboat, 2021
Mixed media oil on canvas
34 x 34 inches

Isca Greenfield-Sanders Rock Beach, 2024

Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Rock Beach, 2024
Mixed media oil on canvas
17 x 17 inches

Isca Greenfield-Sanders Wildflower Field, 2024

Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Wildflower Field, 2024
Mixed media watercolor with color pencil
9 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches

Isca Greenfield-Sanders Wildflowers, 2024

Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Wildflowers, 2024
Mixed media watercolor with color pencil
9 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches

Isca Greenfield-Sanders Purple Beach, 2018

Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Purple Beach, 2018
Mixed media oil on canvas
35 x 35 inches

Isca Greenfield-Sanders Blue Mountain, 2021

Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Blue Mountain, 2021
Mixed media watercolor with color pencil
14 x 14 inches

Isca Greenfield-Sanders Rock Cliff (Pink Sweater), 2018

Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Rock Cliff (Pink Sweater), 2018
Mixed media oil on canvas
14 x 14 inches

Isca Greenfield-Sanders Overlook, 2020

Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Overlook, 2020
Mixed media watercolor with color pencil
8 x 8 inches

Isca Greenfield-Sanders Sandy Beach, 2018

Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Sandy Beach, 2018
Mixed media watercolor with color pencil
8 x 8 inches

Isca Greenfield-Sanders Cornfield (Betsy), 2006

Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Cornfield (Betsy), 2006
Mixed media gouache with color pencil
Image 14 x 14 inches
Sheet: 22 x 22 inches

Isca Greenfield-Sanders, Red Suit Diver, 2006

Isca Greenfield-Sanders

Red Suit Diver, 2006

Color aquatint etching

Plate: 21 x 21 inches; Sheet: 32 x 31 1/4 inches

Edition of 50

Isca Greenfield-Sanders Green Suit Bather, 2006

Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Green Suit Bather, 2006
Color aquatint etching
Plate: 21 x 21 inches; Sheet: 32 x 31 1/4 inches 
Edition of 50

Isca Greenfield-Sanders Yellow Suit Bather, 2006

Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Yellow Suit Bather, 2006
Color aquatint etching
Plate: 21 x 21 inches; Sheet: 32 x 31 1/4 inches
Edition of 50

Biography

Beginning with vintage slides, Greenfield-Sanders breaks down photographic images, and rebuilds them as her own.  Putting the image through various incarnations, she grids and paints small fragments, reconstituting the “details” to a whole in a manner similar to memory’s construction. The vague familiarity of her anonymous landscapes re-enforces her exploration of remembrance as manifested through a complex working method.   The original photographs, by definition, are someone else’s memories, leading the artist to question the nature of recollection and the truthfulness of photography.  The medium’s relationship to reality and the role it plays in our own memories become integral to her multiple studies, watercolors and paintings of a single image.  The multiple outputs become about repeatedly working with form itself.  As the artist stresses:  “My work is not personal, the memories are found, and the emotions imbued are universal.”   Translating elements from unknown family snapshots into paintings with more universal, contemporary concerns, Greenfield-Sanders adds a complexity to her works belied by the beauty inherent in their aesthetic appearance. [1]

Isca Greenfield-Sanders was born in 1978 in New York City's East Village, where she currently lives and works. She graduated from Brown University in 2000 with a double major in Fine Arts and Mathematics. In 2001 she was a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome. Greenfield-Sanders has had five solo exhibitions with Berggruen Gallery (2005, 2007, 2010, 2014, 2018).

Her work is held in collections including Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston; The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Palm Springs Museum, Palm Springs; Estee Lauder Corporation, New York; Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, New Hamshire; among others.

[1] Excerpt from “Isca Greenfield-Sanders: Painting the Shifting Sands of Memory,” by Stacey Goergen.

Fall Highlights
Exhibition
Fall Highlights
September 27 – November 1, 2024
California Gold
Exhibition
California Gold
June 20 – July 25, 2024
Works on Paper
Exhibition
Works on Paper
March 7 – April 25, 2024
Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Exhibition
Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Inherited Landscape October 18 - November 21, 2018
Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Exhibition
Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Somewhere Else, Somewhere Good October 2, 2014
The Art of Giving
Exhibition
The Art of Giving
December 9, 2010 – January 19, 2011
Isca Greenfield Sanders
Exhibition
Isca Greenfield Sanders
Field at Hollow Road November 4 – December 4, 2010
Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Exhibition
Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Red Boat Beaches September 4 – 29, 2007
Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Exhibition
Isca Greenfield-Sanders
Sky of Blue, Sea of Green September 15 – October 29, 2005
Art Basel Miami Beach
Art Fair
Art Basel Miami Beach
Miami Beach Convention Center | Booth F2 December 6 – 8, 2024
The Armory Show
Art Fair
The Armory Show
Javits Center | Booth 213 September 6 – 8, 2024
Dallas Art Fair | Booth A2
Art Fair
Dallas Art Fair | Booth A2
Fashion Industry Gallery April 4 – 7, 2024
Art Basel Miami Beach
Art Fair
Art Basel Miami Beach
Miami Beach Convention Center | Booth D13 December 8 – 10, 2023
The San Francisco Fall Show
Art Fair
The San Francisco Fall Show
Festival Pavilion, Fort Mason Center | Booth B6 October 11 – 15, 2023
The Armory Show
Art Fair
The Armory Show
JAVITS CENTER | Booth 420 September 8 – 10, 2023
Isca Greenfield Sanders exhibition at MCA Denver
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Isca Greenfield Sanders exhibition at MCA Denver
Isca Greenfield Sanders featured in artnet Magazine
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Isca Greenfield Sanders featured in artnet Magazine
October 12, 2010
Isca Greenfield-Sanders | Sky of Blue, Sea of Green
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Isca Greenfield-Sanders | Sky of Blue, Sea of Green
ARTnews December 2005
Press
MCA Denver Interview
Press
Where's the Ball?
Artnet Magazine