Bidspirit auction | Sandi Slone, American 1939 -

Sandi Slone, American 1939 - , Second Sight, Acrylic on Canvas - Sandi Slone, American 1939 - Second Sight, 1978 Acrylic on Canvas, H 60.5 x W 53.5 x D 1 inches Signed on back Metal frame, H 61.75 x W 55 x D 1.5 inches Condition: Slight marking on bottom right corner, can be cleaned, frame has some chips Provenance: Private Texas Collection Even though Sandi Slone has often worked with oversized brushes — an early series of abstract paintings made with large brooms established her reputation as a young painter — she long has had a predilection for intimate gestures and unexpected incidents that signal everything—from the materiality of color that impacts the sensuality of landscape memory and the body — to the current state of our fraught planet. While Slone does not limit herself to any one technique or style there has always been a calligraphic touch that engages the languages of contemporary abstraction as deeply as her sweeping swaths of transparent pours do: I still think abstract painting is a world unto itself, a parallel universe infinitely unknown—a representation of its complexity— not unlike the beauty of music, mathematics and nature’s material spirit. Slone’s Solo exhibitions in New York were represented by Acquavella Galleries in the 1970s and ‘80s. Her paintings have since been the subject of over 40 Solo exhibitions and 135 group shows in the US and internationally. Many are in permanent museum collections here and abroad that include the Museum of Modern Art, NY; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Park, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; Portland Art Museum, Oregon; Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona ; Katzen Art Museum, American University, Washington DC; Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University Wahtam Mass; Alberta Art Museum, Edmonton Canada; Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, NH ; DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA; Agnes Etherington Arts Centre, Queen’s University, Ontario; International Artists Museum Lodz, Poland; New Hall Art Collection, Cambridge University, UK; the Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH; Butler Institute of American Art, Ohio; Frost Art Museum, Florida International Univsity; The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK; Harvard University, Cambridge MA; Davis Museum of Art, Wellesley College; the De Menil Family Trust, Paris—among other private and museum collections