Sandy Sanders

Sandy (Marshall Sanders b. 1951, San Francisco)

My fine art practice focuses on holistic art experiences in individual works and art installations. I make unique shaped 2D relief objects that explore reality, abstraction and the environment, manifesting through street culture, urban social issues, transportation metaphors or thru exploration of painting/depiction processes. It follows that I use found objects, cardboard, collage, acrylics, markers, photography, 3D construction, drawing, painting, digital creation and mashups.

I do not believe in a style or look, a brand, if you will. Monet, with his Haystacks, started producing art of similar visual appearance, allowing deep exploration of process and subject matter. For me, in the modern contemporary era, this practice has evolved into a mechanical appearing repetitiveness, an industrial production. One sees one painting after another, similar but slightly different. This makes for a lot of art patron choice to pick one they like, among many. From me, patrons will find many series of works as I move experimentally across abstraction, reality, concepts, processes and subject matter, working through ideas as clearly as I can. Then moving on to another intriguing challenge. And an...

MFA @ Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, 1979.
BFA @ Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles, 1975.
San Francisco City College.

S T U D I E D W I T H
Peter Alexander
Dennis Anderson
Harry Carmean
Richard Diebenkorn
Lawrence Dreiband
Manny Farber
Lorser Feitelson
Morgan Fisher
Llyn Foulkes
Dwight Harmon
Shiro Ikegawa
Mike Kanemitsu
Gary Lloyd
Ann McCoy
Bill Moore
Bernice Polifka
Betye Saar
Brook Temple
Charles White
Emerson Woelffer

E X H I B I T I O N S

2024 “Make Art Not War”, two-artist show, New Zone Gallery, Eugene, November.

2024 “The Art of Train Graffiti”, solo show, Umpqua Valley Arts Center, Apr-May.

2024 “The Art of Train Graffiti”, solo show, New Zone Gallery, Eugene, January.

2023 “The Art of Train Graffiti”, solo show, Springfield City Hall Gallery, July.

2023 “The War on Humanity”, two-artist show, New Zone Gallery, Eugene, May.

2022 “Panem et Circenses”, two-artist collaboration, New Zone Gallery, Eugene, July.

2021 “60 Years of Art Making”, New Zone Gallery, Spotlight Artist, February.

2019 “Capitalism Sucks Art Show”, solo show, New Zone Gallery, Eugene, November.

1982 “Intersections,” ARC Gallery/Raw Space, Chicago, solo installation work, March.

1980 Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, North Gallery, two-person show, June.

1980 “California Roadsides,” Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Artist’s Space, two-person.

1979 Otis Art Institute, M.F.A. show, solo installation, May.

1978 “Four Photographers,” Soho Cameraworks, Los Angeles, four-person show.

G R O U P E X H I B I T I O N S

2025 Maude Kerns Art Center, Figurative Art Exhibit "Seen", Eugene, OR, Feb-Mar.

17-’25 New Zone Gallery and other Central Oregon venues,...