Sigrid Sandström Art

Sigrid Sandström Untitled, 2017 acrylic on polyester canvas 76 x 60 in (193 x 152.4 cm) Sigrid Sandström (born 1970, Stockholm, Sweden) studied at C...

Sigrid Sandström Untitled, 2015 acrylic on polyester canvas 39 1/2 x 35 1/2 inches, 128 x 115 cm The various marks that collide in Sigrid Sandström’s paintings don’t settle i...

Sigrid Sandström, Untitled, 2015, acrylic on polyester canvas, 39-1/2 x 35-1/2 inches The various marks that collide in Sigrid Sandström’s paintings don’t settle into perfect...

Sigrid Sandström Untitled, 2012 acrylic on board, 60 x 48 inches Sigrid Sandström was born in 1970 in Stockholm, Sweden and currently Professor of Fine Arts at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm. She studied at Cooper Union School of Art, Academie Minerva, Groningen, The Netherlands (BFA 1997), attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2000) and received an MFA in Painting from Yale University in 2001. She has exhibited widely since then, with solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Houston and her native Sweden. Sandström's work was included in the Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston's 25th anniversary exhibition, Perspectives @ 25. Her first solo museum exhibition, Ginnungagap: Recent Works by Sigrid Sandstrom...

Building each work in a slow accumulation of additions, reconsiderations, and erasures, Sandström places shapes into compositions that slip between two-dimensional flatness and the illusion of three-dimensional depth. Some painted forms look like pieces of paper collaged onto the surface of the painting, while others can appear as pieces of paper caught at odd perspectival angles, as though swirling in a windstorm. Bar shapes uncannily resemble strips of the masking tape used to create the sharp edges of her shapes, provoking further feelings of visual cohesion, negation, and uncertainty. Throughout her works, painted elements simultaneously jut and recede, as well as obscure, delimit, and cancel out each other. The occasional translucent shape epitomizes this indeterminate relationship: Sandström at once invites deep looking and holds the viewer at a distance. Sigrid Sandström...