Sandström, Sigrid

Mock-ups

This exhibition sets out as a reflection on the provisional and the speculative within painting; specifically how, through the process of construction, the painted place unfolds, is determined, and attains significance. These paintings are created without a preconceived notion of a given place, nor 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. To this effect, this active place of meaning is redolent with discoveries and surprises. The medium itself (liquid paint) slows down thinking in accordance with the speed of application, which in my practice creates a process that is patient and stubborn, waiting for the right moment when things fall into place. Each painting is a visual moment where the plasticity of space is tested and challenged by the painted surface 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.

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2008
Acrylic on canvas
122 x 165 cm

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2008
Acrylic on canvas
122 x 132 cm

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2008
Acrylic on canvas
100 x 132,5 cm

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2008
Acrylic on canvas
40 x 51 cm

CV

EDUCATION

2001 Yale University School of Art, M.F.A, New Haven, CT, USA
2000 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME, USA
1997 Academie Minerva, B.F.A, Groningen, The Netherlands
1995 The Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY, USA

RESIDENCIES/GRANTS/FELLOWSHIPS

2008
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York, NY, USA
2004
Barbro Osher Foundation, San Francisco, CA, USA
2003
Artadia Award, The Fund for Art and Dialogue, New York, NY, USA Stiftelsen Längmanska Kulturfonden, Stockholm, Sweden
Eliza Randall Prize, Houston,TX, USA
2002
Eliza Randall Prize, Houston,TX, USA
2001-03
The Core Fellowship, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, USA
2001
Alice Kimball English Traveling Fellowship, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
2000
Anna Whitlocks Minnesfond, Stockholm, Sweden
1997
American Society's Culture Award, New York, NY, USA
1995
De Groote Brugmans fond, Groningen, The Netherlands

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008
Mock-Ups, Galleri Thomas Wallner, Malmö, Sweden
New Paintings, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
2007
Recent Paintings, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Märkt, Galleri Gunnar Olsson, Stockholm, Sweden
2006
Ginnungagap: Recent Works by Sigrid Sandstrom, Frye Museum,Seattle, WA, USA
(catalogue) Action, Inman Gallery, Houston TX, USA
2005
Her Black Flags: Video projections by Sigrid Sandstrom, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA, USA
2004
Ginnungagap Inman Gallery, Houston, TX, USA Hrönir, Galleri Gunnar Olsson, Stockholm, Sweden Sighting, Brant Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, USA
2003
Tillflykter, Galleri Gunnar Olsson, Stockholm, Sweden
2002
I Know Where I'm Going, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX, USA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008
Cent, Galerie Defrost, Paris, France
Gallery Artists New Works, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Learning by Doing: 25 Years of the Core Program at the MFAH, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX, USA
Probably, Inman Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
2007
Sylvia Rivera Law Project Art Benefit, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Gallery Artists, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Saturn Falling, curated by Gavin Morrison, The Corridor, Reykjavik, Iceland
Frisbee LA, curated by Anat Ebgi and Jen de Nike, Los Angeles, CA
Landforce, Sabina Lee Gallery, curated by John L. Moore, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Market, Stockholm, Sweden with Galleri Gunnar Olsson
2006
Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day, curated by Shinique Smith, The Proposition, New York, NY, USA
(catalogue)
The Kitchen’s 2006 Benefit Auction, The Kitchen, New York, NY, USA
Everywhichway, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Frisbee, Miami, Fl, USA curated by Anat Ebgi and Jen de Nike
Aqua, Miami, Fl, USA with Inman Gallery
Pulse, New York, NY, USA with Inman Gallery
Market, Stockholm, Sweden with Galleri Gunnar Olsson
2005
Frisbee, Miami, Fl, , USA curated by Anat Ebgi and Jen de Nike
Aqua, Miami, Fl, , USA with Inman Gallery
If you're feeling sinister, Alona Kagan Gallery, New York, NY, USA
You Are Here, Ballroom Marfa, TX, USA
Something is Somewhere, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Cecilia Elde,Ulrika Lundberg, Martina Muntzig och Sigrid Sandström, Kabusa Konsthall, Sweden
The Edge of Darkness, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Sollentuna Konstmässa 2005, Galleri Olsson, Stockholm, Sweden
Outpost, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, USA (catalogue)
2004
Voodoo Shit, Hales Gallery, London, UK
Perspective@25, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX, USA (catalogue)
AFFAIR@The Jupiter Hotel, Portland, OR, with Inman Gallery
Summer Group Show II: Landscapes, Nahcotta Inc. Portsmouth, NH, USA
Svenska konstärer i världen, Millesgården, Stockholm (catalogue)
Rocks, scissors, paper, Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, TX, USA
Why not live for art, Tokyo Opera City Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Selections 04, Stephen D. Paine Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, USA
2003
NADA Art Fair, Miami, FL, with Inman Gallery
ARTissima Art Fair, Turin, with Inman Gallery
Miniatures, Hook-Epstein Gallery, Houston TX, USA
Rendered, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Paper Works, Julia Friedman Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
Sigrid Sandström & Jiha Moon, M3 Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany
It's not the end of the world, Sigrid Sandström and Karyn Olivier, The Nave
Museum,Victoria, TX, USA
Core Artists in Residence, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,TX,, USA (catalogue) function:assimilate, Tyler Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2002
New York, New Work, Now! The Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH, USA
Core Samples, Galveston Arts Center, Galveston, TX, USA
Pertaining to Painting, The Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX, USA traveled to:
Austin Museum of Art (catalogue)
New American Talent/17, The Jones Center for Contemporary Art, The Texas Fine
Arts Association, Austin, TX traveled to: J.Wayne Stark Galleries, Texas A &M
University, Commerce, TX,USA (catalogue)
Wall Power, Dallas Center for Contemporary Art, Dallas, TX, USA (catalogue)
Core Artists in Residence, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, USA (catalogue)

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2008
Britt, Douglas, “ Last Chance to catch hot August shows,” Houston Cronicle,
August15:E1,E2
Core: Artists and Critics in Residence, The Museum of Fine Arts, pp.166,197
2007
Fry, Naomi, “Critics’ Pick: Sigrid Sandstrom,” Artforum, picks 12.10.07
Brodow, Anna, “Sigrid Sandström, Verkligheten tränger sig på,”Svenska Dagbladet,
January 27
2006
Hackett, Regina, “Yoder, O’Neil, Sandstrom, Helfand,”,Seattlepi.com, June 16 Graves,
Jen, “ Wondering about Wandering-Sandstrom Asks What We Expect to Find Out
There,”The Stranger, June 22-28, 2006
Naves Mario, “ This Way, That Way,”The New York Observer, (online) July 24
Johnson, Ken, The Listings, “Everywhichway,” The New York Times, July 7,
2005
Marshall, Robert, “Something is Somewhere,” New York Press, Vol.18, Number21, May
25-31
2004
French, Christopher, Flash Art, November
Perspective@25, exhibition catalogue, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
Keough, Jeffrey, Outpost, exhibition catalogue, Massachusetts College of Arts
Klaasmeyer, Kelly, Polar Flair-Sigrid Sandström brings arctic splendor to Inman
Gallery,” Houston Press, September 30:46
2003
Core 2003 (exhibition catalogue). Houston: The Glassell School of Art of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Johnson, Patricia C., "Five Houston artist honored with Artadia awards," Houston
Chronicle,April 28:12C
New American Painting, Boston:The Open Studio Press, MA, #46 2003
Sillman, Amy, Top Ten, Art Forum, November
2002
Currain, Rob, "Pertaining to Painting":Chocolate Box,' The Austin Chronicle, December
27:vol .22.no.17
Devine,John, "She Knows Where She's Going," Houston Press, August 8- 14:56
Morsiani, Paola, "Pertaining to Painting" (exhibition catalogue), Perspectives 133:22-21
Biederman, Christine, "Planet of the Apes,",Dallas Observer, May 16-22: 61.
Core Yearbook, (exhibition catalogue). Houston: The Glassell School of Art of the
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Mitchell, Charles Dee," Think Big Picture,”The Dallas Morning News, April 18: 12C.

PUBLICATIONS

Grey Hope- the persistence of Melancholy, 2006, edited by Sigrid Sandström and Atopia

Projects

CURATORIAL PROJECT

Oyster Skies: Meditations on Northern Landscapes (August 2008 – February 15 2009), curated from the
collection by Sigrid Sandström, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA

IN COLLECTIONS

Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX, USA
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS, USA
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, USA

TEACHING EXPERIENCES

2005-present
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson,NY, Assistant Professor
2006
Royal University College of Art, Stockholm, Visiting lecturer
2005
Yale University, Summer Program, Basic Drawing
2004
Edinburgh College of Art, asnE (Art,Space,Nature Science Graduate Program) work shop:
Building a Studio (www.atopiaprojects.org/workshops)
2003-05
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Junior/Senior major Studio,
Drawing for Painting Majors,
Co-teaching the Graduate Painting program; individual studio critiques, class critics and for Graduate Students
2001-03
Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston/ University of St Thomas
Fundamental Drawing I & II, 2D Design, Collage, Beginning Painting I & II Instructor
The Contemporary Art Museum, Houston Gallery Teacher
2001
Yale University Art Gallery, Visiting Artist, Education Department, " Neighborhood Place Summer Program" (public school children grade 1-5) and "Vietnam Veteran Program"
Yale University School of Art, Teaching assistant to Lisa Corinne Davis, Basic drawing

LECTURES /SYMPOSIA

Visiting Artist lecture, Boston University, Boston, MA, April 10, 2008
Visiting Artist lecture, Princeton Univeristy, Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton, February 19, 2008
Visiting Artist lecture, Maryland Art Institute, Baltimore, February 7, 2008
Visiting Artist lecture, Southern Methodist Univeristy, Dallas, March 2007
Visiting Artist lecture, Royal University College of Art, Stockholm, January 16, 2006
Visiting Artist lecture, Mills College of Art, Oakland, CA, November 2, 2005
Visiting Critic, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT, April 21, 2005
Visiting Artist lecture, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, December 2, 2003
Visiting Artist lecture, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, November 18, 2003
Visiting Artist lecture, Victoria College, Victoria, Texas, 2003
Core Panel, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, May 2001
"The Slide Jam", lecture, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, April 2001
"1st Annual Student and Parent Conference", lecture, Museum of Fine Arts Houston,Texas, 2001