Resembling eclipse-like instants- Blackout is an ongoing series of screenprints on digitally printed Japanese kozo paper that uses the contrast between darkness and light to explore the question: Should one live with lightness and freedom- or with weight and duty? This dilemma posed in Milan Kundera’s, The Unbearable Lightness of Being grapples with issues surrounding the importance of the individual versus the collective whole.
screenprint on 2 sided kozo paper, intereference inks
9” x 12”
2020
Install pics @ San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
Part of group exhibition, "Printstallations."
Incorporating pages from the astronomy textbook Story of the Heavens (published 1897), with screenprinted light refractions I photograph, this series contemplates the phenomena in nature and the achievements of human genius.
60 Screenprints on digital kozo paper, interference inks, wood ledges, magnets.
Installation scale approx. 72" x 155"
2018
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30 Screenprints on 100 year old French leger pages, color pencil, thread and push pins.
43" x 68"
2017
Install pic @ Steckline Gallery, Newman University, Wichita, KS
“Sarah Sanford, a Santa Cruz artist, superimposes photographs of light shot in her studio atop pages of a 100-year-old French leger book. The faded paper evokes the passage of time, but the more noteworthy characteristic of the piece, titled Agenda 1917, is the myriad shapes into which Sanford’s juxtapositions appear to bend light. Their skeletal patterns and spectral qualities recall a watershed moment in photographic history: the discovery of the x-ray in 1895 by the German physicist William Roentgen.”
David Roth, Squarelinder, 2018
Nos. 2 & 18
Original French leger book, circa 1917.
Nos. 8 & 28
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Series Nos. 1 - 20
Screenprint and Cyanotype on paper and film, plexi glass.
This series of layered prints on paper and film use natural elements and refracted light to explore time as a series of memories. Framed in custom designed shadow box frames and layered with plexi glass, each piece creates a portal into mysterious landscapes.
8" x 8" x 1" each
2016
Install Pic. Steckline Gallery, Newmann University, Wichita, KS
27 hand-dyed strips of paper, bleach, color pencil, gloss varnish, acrylic rods.
40" x 144"
2012
USGS Pacific Coral Reef Collaborative Project. This installation was inspired by the work of oceanographer, Curt Storlazzi and the reproductive strategy of "broadcast spawning" used by coral reefs.
Install shots @ R. Blitzer Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
Part of Group Exhibition, "Earth Science Art: Sixteen Collaborative Explorations"
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45 screenprints on Audorad film, interference inks, pins, rubber bumper stickers, plexiglass
Collaborative project on coding and traceability with scientists from the Human Genetics Unit of the Medical Research Council, Edinburgh, Scotland.
55" x 78"
2003
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Series of 6 etched plaster tablets viewed in vitrine velvet lined cases.
Each tablet combines an appropriated quote etched into the plaster with pages from an antique entymology book laid in layers of varnish. Collectively this series explores our interconnectedness across the species.
Each tablet- 12" x 9" x 1"
2003
Install Pic @ Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
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