Isca Greenfield-Sanders (American, born )

Isca Greenfield-Sanders (American, b.1978) is a painter, whose work fuses photography, watercolor, drawing, and oils to create layered images that blur the boundaries between abstraction and figuration. A native of New York City, Greenfield-Sanders received a BA in visual arts and math from Brown University in 2000. She then accepted a position as the visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome, and has since had numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and Europe.

Through her work, Greenfield-Sanders explores themes of nostalgia, memory, and American ideals, using a combination of digital media and traditional techniques to create oil paintings out of vintage photographs. To make her images, she first scans and edits the photo, prints it onto a piece of paper, and then paints over it with watercolor and colored pencil. The final result is a composite of square tiles, with subjects ranging from soccer field and beach scenes to Korean War parachute paintings.

Her pieces are included in the collections of the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Museum Morsbroich in Germany, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Progressive Collection in Ohio, among others. Articles on her work have appeared in publications such as New York Magazine, Elle Décor, and Vanity Fair.

She currently lives and works in New York.

Timeline

1978
Born in New York, NY
2000
BA (Honors), visual art, Brown University, Providence, RI
2000
BA, mathematics, Brown University, Providence, RI
2001
Visiting Artist, American Academy of Rome, Italy
Lives in New York, NY

Exhibitions

2013
Marines, Galerie Klüser, München, Germany (solo)
2013
Missed Connection - Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, USA
2013
Ten Years, Wallspace - New York, New York, USA
2013
Playing with Process: Explorations in Experimental Printmaking - Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas, USA
2013
The Distaff Side - The Granary, Sharon, USA
2013
1XX Curated by Sam Trioli - Launch F18, New York, USA
2012
Second State, Haunch of Venison, London, England
Radical Terrain, Rubin Museum, New York, NY
2011
Out of Focus. After Gerhard Richter, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany
US Department of State Art in Embassies, Embassy in Tel Aviv
Film Edges, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
The Ocean Between, Haunch of Venison, New York, NY
2010
Light Leaks, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver, CO
Field at Hollow Road, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010
Selected prints, Galerie Klüser, München, Germany (solo)
2009
Galerie Klüser, Munich, Germany
Light Leak, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
One Size Fits All, On Stellar Rays Gallery, New York, NY
In Their Own Right: Contemporary Women Printmakers, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
2009
A beautiful place to get lost, Galerie Klüser, München, Germany
2008
Reflections on Light – 30 Years Galerie Bernd Klüser, Galerie Klüser, München, Germany
2008
REFLECTIONS ON LIGHT - 30 years Galerie Bernd - Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany
Against The Fall, Goff + Rosenthal, New York, NY (solo)
2006
Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden (solo)
2006
Virdian Isle, Galerie Klüser, München, Germany (solo)
2005
Carla Mattii, Isca Greenfield-Sanders, Silvia Zotta, UnoSuNove, Rome, Italy
Convertible Fabric Pyramid, curated by Demetrio Paproni & 110 Editions, Benevento, Italy
The Dreamland Artist Club 2005, curated by Creative Time, Coney Island, NY
The General’s Jamboree: Guild & Greyshkul’s 2nd annual watercolor show, Guild & Greyshkul, NY, NY
Sky of Blue, Sea of Green, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
Paintings for Harley, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO (solo)
2004
River Arts, Casola Gallery, Peekskill, NY
Silver Cove, Galerie Klüser, Munich, Germany
2004
Silver Cove, Galerie Klüser, München, Germany (solo)
2003
Windswept Fields, Galerie Klüser, München, Germany (solo)
2003
Rose Point, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY (solo)
Windswept Fields, Galerie Klüser, Munich, Germany (solo)
Frans von Lenbach and Art Today, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Prague Biennale: Peripheries Become the Center, Veletrzni Palace, Prague
Photography as Model, Wallspace Gallery, New York, NY
All about me, Spike Gallery, New York, NY
Sanders & Greenfield-Sanders, Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
Up and Coming, Arco Art Fair, Madrid Spain
25th Anniversary Show, Bjorn Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2002
Painting as Paradox, Artist’s Space, New York, NY
Gothic Mood, Palazzo Delle Stelline, Milan, Italy
Friends and Family, Lombard Freid Fine Arts, New York, NY
27 Emerging Artists, Spike Gallery, New York, NY
Beachwood Park, Lombard Freid Fine Arts, New York, NY (solo)
New Work, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO (solo)
2001
Vice Versa, Rare Gallery, New York, NY
Addition | Subtraction, Carlin Space, New York, NY
Collectors Choice, Exit Art, New York, NY
Nostalgia, Ubanetc., Brooklyn, NY
Three Projects Rooms, Galleria In Arco, Turin, Italy (solo)
2000
Memories, Galleria In Arco, Turin, ItalyGroup (solo)
Biblioteca Comunale, Torre del Castello, Turin, Italy
SVA Digital Salon, Palacio de Santa Cruza, Valladolid, Spain
1999
SVA Digital Salon, Visual Arts Museum, New York, NY
SVA Digital Salon, Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain

Public Collections

Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, USA
Estee Lauder Corporation, New York, USA
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, USA
Musem of Fine Arts Houston, Texas, USA
USA Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
Palm Springs Museum, Palm Springs, USA
Progressive Corporation, Mayfield, USA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA

Literature

2005
Flash, Dash and Now, Art by Randy Kennedy, NEW YORK TIMES, June 17, 2005
2005
Painted Love by Linda Yablonsky, TIME OUT NY, June 16 - 20, 2005 p. 31
2005
Not Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Karin Nelson, HANDSBLUE.COM, June 19, 2005
2005
Sweet and Lowdown by Jenny Feldman, ElLLE, April 2005, p. 170
2005
Crazy in Love, Valentines by our favorite artists, PAPER MAGAZINE, February 2005, p. 45
2005
Isca Greenfield-Sanders by Deborah Phillips, ARTNEWS, December 2005
2005
True Blue by Celia Ellenberg, NYLON, August 2005, p. 115
2004
Interview w/ Isca Greenfield-sanders by Otino Corsano, www.SAMPLESIZE.com, Nov. 2004
2004
Electric Youth by Andrew Stone, GOTHAM, May, p. 170
2003
A Rose for Winter NY NEWSDAY, December 14th
2003
Isca Greenfield-Sanders by Amanda Coulson, ART NEWS, October, p. 152
2003
Portrait Gallery by Stellene Volandes, DEPARTURES MAGAZINE, September
2003
Girl Geek of the Week GIRLGEEKS.ORG, June
2002
Beachwood Park by Lauri Firstenberg, TEMA CELESTE, July / August
2002
Art Clans: Like Father, Like Daughter? by Amy Larocca, NY MAGAZINE, August
2002
Mac-Based Artist Rocks NY by Leander Kahney, WIRED.COM, July 11
2002
Isca Greenfield-Sanders by Joyce Korotkin, NY ARTS MAGAZINE, June
2002
A Window on the Past by Celia McGee, DAILY NEWS, May 30, p. 42
2002
Photo Op by Sharon Edelson, WOMEN'S WEAR DAILY, May 21
2002
Rising Star by Richard Johnson, NEW YORK POST, May 7
2002
Beautiful People 2002 by Meghan Sutherland, PAPER MAGAZINE, April
2001
The Artist’s Way THE OPRAH MAGAZINE, November, p. 229
2001
Cover Illustration for JULIET ART MAGAZINE, February / March
2001
Gotham Girls by Dana Wagner, GOTHAM, March, p. 332
2000
Isca Greenfield-Sanders by Tiziana Conti, TEMA CELESTE, September
2000
Sat in a Glass Case by Mariuccia Casadio, L’UOMO VOGUE, May / June, p. 116
2000
Downtown Confidential by Sharon Edelson, W MAGAZINE, May