Isca Greenfield-Sanders’ (b. 1978, New York, NY) landscape paintings are based on found vintage photography. They invite the viewer to forge a connection with their own experiences. Using the old pictures as a starting point, she creates several iterations of each image, which she alters with pencil and watercolor, and finally paints over with oil. Image fragments are distilled into carefully composed paintings, which emerge simultaneously familiar and enigmatic.
SmartSpaces featured Isca Greenfield-Sanders: Playground Parachutes in Vesuvio Playground in Soho, New York City (October-November 2016) in collaboration with the Children’s Museum of New York and Green Below 14.
The artist received her Bachelor of Arts from Brown University, in Providence, RI, in 2000 in both Visual Art and Mathematics. Solo exhibitions of her work have been held at The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver; The Museum Morsbroich, Germany; and MoMA PS1, New York. She is represented worldwide by Miles McEnery Gallery (New York), Berggruen Gallery (San Francisco), Galerie Klüser (Germany), Baldwin Gallery (Aspen, CO), Wetterling Gallery (Sweden) and Dubner Moderne (Switzerland.) Her works are included in the public collections of The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Brooklyn Museum; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco. Greenfield-Sanders lives and works in New York City.
- Project: Isca-Greenfield-Sanders: Playground Parachutes
- Artist Website: www.IscaGS.com