1972 Cali, Colombia
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, 10031
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
Colombia
