Statement:
I am an interdisciplinary visual artist whose practice integrates printmaking, painting, drawing, and collage. My work explores the intersection of two environments that shape my experience—the urban and the rural—through abstraction and layered visual narratives. At the core of my practice is an investigation of visual structure, spatial relationships, and material presence. Through abstraction, I examine how form, space, and surface interact to create meaning. Experimentation is fundamental to my process, guiding the development of works that evolve through layering, fragmentation, and the integration of multiple media.

Printmaking serves as a central element of my practice, providing both a conceptual and material framework for exploration. Layering operates simultaneously as subject and method within my work. By combining printmaking with other media, I construct complex compositions that reflect the layered nature of perception and lived experience. Geometry, pattern, and texture function as key components of a visual language that explores the dynamic interplay between order and disruption, surface and depth. Through the juxtaposition of imagery, accumulated marks, and shifting spatial relationships, I seek to capture the complexity of visual space and the ways in which environments, memories, and experiences intersect and overlap.

Biography:
Sandra Kelch is an artist and academic based in both Tasmania and California. Born in New York, she received her BFA from The Cooper Union, her MFA from the Cranbrook Academy of Art and a Ph.D. in practice-led research in the Arts from the Australian National University. She currently teaches at the University of San Francisco’s Art + Architecture department, and has taught at the California College of the Arts, the University of San Francisco, San Francisco State University and the Kala Art Institute. Her artwork has been exhibited at numerous galleries and museums including the International Print Center New York, the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, the Turner Print Museum, California Modern Gallery, Intersection for the Arts, the Berkeley Art Center, Jen Tough Gallery and Kala Art Institute Gallery. Sandra‘s awards include the Artspan Selections Award, and a Juror’s Award from Gearbox Gallery. She has been an artist in residence at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center and the Kala Art Institute in Berkeley.