#sandy litchfield

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Sandy Litchfield - Walking From Earthsleep (2024)

Colored pencil, pastel on paper

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Study for Metroplush   -   Sandy Litchfield , 2011.

American,b. 1970s-

gouache, paper, archival inkjet print and collage,  7 x 10 in.

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Sandy Litchfield - Lake 7 (cloud shadow), 2021

Colored pencil on velour paper

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Sandy Litchfield - Slipway (2021)

Gouache on paper

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Sandy Litchfield - Fire Sky (2024)

Gouache, pastel and colored pencil on paper

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Sandy Litchfield (b.1966), Scrap Paper and Woods #2 (2012), gouache, paper, archival inkjet print, and collage, 76.2 x 58.4 cm. Via Artsy; see also, the artist’s website.

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Sandy Litchfield

Artist Sandy Litchfield is exhibiting at Garvey Simon Art Access in New York now thru January 11. She generously shares with LFF about how she got hooked on making art, her inspirations, feminism and more...

Background:   I was born in New York City and grew up in both the city and Westchester County. I went to a lake in the Adirondacks every summer with my family, which had a big impact on my sensibility.   My interest in art began with an interest in ideas. In high school I wrote a thesis project on Carl Gustav Jung. From there I became curious about mythology, philosophy and art history. I began college as an art history major, but once I started taking studio classes, I just got hooked on making.   Influences, inspirations; why do you do what you do:   Early on I was influenced by the American modernist painters, like Arthur Dove, Charles Burchfield and O’Keefe. Later I became interested in collage and assemblage artists like Kurt Schwitters and Lee Krasner. Now I find most of my inspiration from literature. Some of my favorite writers are Anne Carson, A.S. Byatt and Adam Phillips.   I’m always trying to get to the bottom of why I do what I do. I think it mainly has to do with longing. The Portuguese writer, Fernando Pessoa sums it up quite well when he wrote:   “It isn’t death I want, or life: it’s the other thing that shines at the bottom of all longing like a possible diamond in a cave one cannot reach.”   Making art is like trying to reach the diamond, to capture it, hold it, understand it and know it. Of course it’s impossible. But when it’s working, art can provide a limited construction for the unattainable. It’s like trying to make a dream real, except what you really end up doing is making what’s real (the materials) into a simulacrum of a dream. Nevertheless, the need to keep trying never goes away. And sometimes you accidentally stumble on something that exceeds your expectations. This is what you hope for.

"Foglights," Sandy Litchfield

  Does feminism play a role in your work?   I think feminism, plays a role for all women artists, whether they acknowledge it or not. I can’t separate my perspective as a woman from my work. And while it may not be overt, I consider notions of liberation and emancipation fundamental to my process and conceptual research.   What would people be surprised to know about you?

My other passion is rock climbing.

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sandylitchfield.com

garveysimonartaccess.com

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Les Femmes Folles is a completely volunteer run organization founded with the mission to support and promote women in all forms, styles and levels of art; originally inspired by artist Wanda Ewing and her curated exhibit by the name Les Femmes Folles (Wild Women). Read more about Wanda at wandaewing.com. All proceeds from LFF books and products in December (and a portion forever) will go towards the University of Nebraska-Omaha's Wanda Ewing Scholarship Fund.

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Sunday Steals - 6/23/13:

Sandy Litchfield - Bust 2. Watercolor, Ink, Collage On Paper, 2007.