Both travel and printmaking open doorways to the unknown. Each is a process of looking closer, embracing uncertainty and allowing unexpected discoveries to unfold. Over a lifetime of journeys and living across urban and rural environments, I have gathered a rich tapestry of visual impressions from landscapes, cultures and everyday encounters. These experiences linger, evolve and re-emerge in my printmaking, continually shaping the direction of my practice. I translate sensations of a particular environment into visual form, from the micro to the macro, and from the visible to the unseen. I combine monotype printmaking with relief printing, chinē colle and drawing to create compositions that explore my relationship to a place. My creative process begins by identifying the distinctive qualities of a place that resonate with me. I translate these qualities into layers of form, color, texture, and pattern that I interweave to create a new, hybrid representation. Layering functions as both the subject and methodology of my work, and reflects the richness, complexity, and intensity of living in our multifaceted world. During the printing process, spontaneous experimentation and discovery guide the development of each work, allowing unexpected connections and visual outcomes to emerge.
___________________________________________
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.
For information about sales, exhibitions or commissions please use the CONTACT button below.
