Lives and works in New York.

In my paintings I try to represent women as an universal individual and then I put them in different situations using the gesture or expression of their faces and bodies as a way to express how women are seeing today. I represent them as a result of a social, political and cultural experience. I also try to place them in situations where they appear as simple stereotypes. The figures move usually in an open space, giving the viewer the possibility of imagine the rest of the situation. There is a narration or story that begins but is the spectator who continues it. My paintings are figurative but neither realistic, not abstract. I use oil paints, color pencils and drawing is essential in all of them. I always work with the sketches first and then I go to the canvas after I decide the size and color of the figures. The usage of the color stays in similar tone. I like transforming the oil painting in something liquid and thin into give the figures the flatness and forms that I want.

SANDRA VERGARA Studio: 746 Saint Nicholas Avenue 43A, New York, NY, pintura al oleo 1 Phone: 646-382-8233 Email : sandravergara72@hotmail.com

Education

The Art Students League of New York, NY. 2003 - Present Studying with Charles Hinman and Ronnie Landfield Instituto Popular de Cultura, Colombia. Visual Arts. 1995 - 2000 Earned Master Degree in Fine Arts.

Additional Studies

Acrylic Workshop, Acrylics For Oil Painters with Roy Kinzer 2006- School of Visual Arts, NY. Continuing Education Program 2005 - Instituto Departamental de Bellas Artes, Colombia 2002

Group Exhibitions

The Annual Pre-graduated Group of Painters- Instituto Popular de Cultura, Colombia 1999 The Annual Show

The Arte students League of NY 2006- 2007 BISOU Show, Ecology Art 21- The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan. 2007

The Fourth Annual NOHO NY ArtWalk, NY, 2007

Positive Art for Positive Women, HIV+WOMEN & HEALING ART SHOW, Housing Works, NY, 2007

Collective of Latin-American and Caribbean Women in Art, NY, 2007

RAPTURE UNLEASHED Group Show, West Side Arts Coalition, NY, 2007

JAM, Gallery Onetwentyeight, NY, 2007

Never Routine, Grace Institute, NY, 2008



Grants

JEAN GATES award, through The Art Students League of New York, NY, 2007.

Vaclav Vytlacil Memorial Scholarship- The Art Students League of NY, Ny, 2009

Publications

KYOTO Art Exhibition BI-SO Catalog, Kyoto, 2007

Wome’s Health Center ART CATALOG, New York, 2007

GALLERY AND STUDIO Magazine, Vol. 10. No. 2, New York, 2008

The Art Students League of New York 2008-2009 Catalog