SANDRA JONES CAMPBELL "Gauguin’s Dream Meditation"

 

Title: Gauguin’s Dream Meditation

 

Materials: Acrylic paint on wooden violin

Dimensions: 31” H x 14” W x 3” D
Estimated value: $3000
Buy It Now: $3750
Display Location:

Pacific Edge Gallery; 540 South Coast Hwy, Laguna Beach

Artist’s Background

Sandra was educated at the University of Maryland (International Division in Istanbul) and the University of Oregon and has gone on to become a popular and critically acclaimed painter.

Sandra describes her paintings as composites of social sightings portraying evocative associations from a voyeuristic perspective, often at moments of personal apprehensions or sociological attitudes. Her visual narratives achieve effects that are simultaneously playful and sophisticated.

Sandra’s depiction of social and political scenes reflect both her professional respect for the 30′s style German Expressionists Max Beckman, George Grosz and Otto Dix, and her uniquely gentle wit. Multiple figures populate lively acrylics on paper or canvas images that blend Sandra’s optimism and candor, along with her keen visual skill: balancing color, form composition, humor and subject matter.

Sandra’s provocative paintings have been shown in over 50 one and two person exhibits, and at museum shows in California, Oregon, Massachusetts and Arizona. Paintings by Sandra Campbell Jones are included in permanent collections both nationally and around the world. She is a regular exhibitor at the Festival of the Arts in Laguna Beach.

Artist’s Statement

Homage to Gauguin’s passion for painting Island Women, for using Primitives as subjects. His desire in painting to deal with suggesting rather than describing. Concept of vision replaced that of observation. His intuition led him to discover that in terms of surface area or degrees of intensity, color no longer builds up but merely suggests form. For Gauguin’s meditation, art was an abstraction.

The violin is held aloft by a wooden Art Deco style statue (painted in acrylic to match). It is used to balance the violin and is a tribute to the female figurative in Music and Art.
For more information about this artist, visit: sandrajonescampbell.com

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