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Looking Back at the Road Ahead by Linda Yablonsky, 2024

Isca Greenfield-Sanders: Looking Back at the Road Ahead By LINDA YABLONSKY I’m in the studio where Isca Greenfield-Sanders makes art. Her apartment is in the same building a few floors down. It’s a walk-up. I’m feeling a little light in the head, but that may be an effect of the paintings propped around the room. All are square – square in format, this is. Not uncool. Greenfield-Sanders calls them landscapes. I see hallucinations. This is my first introduction to her work. I need to give it a minute. Bend in the Road is a mountain scene. It has the look of a million souvenir postcards, but it does not conform to type. In reality such a road would be a two-lane blacktop. On this canvas it’s a fuzzy pink. The road curves gently around a hill topped by flamboyant nests of greenery, while the rockface appears to have endured a [...]

2024-06-10T13:05:04+00:00

Blue Skies by Lilly Wei, 2024

Blue Skies By LILLY WEI Isca Greenfield-Sanders’ new body of paintings looks much like her previous work. It is centered on landscapes of such glowing beauty that it might restore our once held belief that God’s in his heaven, all’s right with the world, although it’s been some time since the Victorian poet Robert Browning’s assertion could be quoted without skepticism or irony. Nonetheless, there is reassurance, all the more welcomed because so rare these days, in Greenfield-Sanders’ steadiness of vision that is (literally) blue-skied and upbeat, both nostalgic and timeless, the world of her imagination poised delicately, gracefully adjacent to the world that exists, a world increasingly threatened with extinction due to our own self-destructive follies. Her sense of nature is not that of the Romantic sublime; rather, she views it from a more benign, non-adversarial, feminist-inflected perspective. She prefers a less overwhelming intention and scale, often populating her [...]

2024-06-10T13:05:10+00:00

Rutland Herald

‘Ocean’s Edge’ brings the beach to Brattleboro Aug 24, 2019 BRATTLEBORO – Vermont may be landlocked, but visitors to the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) can practically feel the spray of the ocean and the sand beneath their feet this summer. In “Ocean’s Edge,” artists David Kapp, Graham Nickson, and Isca Greenfield-Sanders transport viewers to beaches from Maine to Mexico. The exhibit is on view at BMAC through September 23. Kapp is best known for his paintings of the contemporary urban landscape, and his paintings have been described by Ken Johnson of The New York Times as having “a dreamy, mildly hallucinatory air and a mood of Hopperesque melancholy.” “Urban crowds and figures in motion were the pretext for my paintings when I was living and painting in New York City,” Kapp said. “When I found myself in the coastal Yucatan, the available crowds and figures were the bathers [...]

2023-07-17T18:25:50+00:00

Points of View by Phyllis Tuchman, 2022

Points of View By Phyllis Tuchman               Isca Greenfield-Sanders’s figured landscapes¹ transport viewers to light-dappled lakes, mountain trails, rustic sites where wild flowers bloom, and ocean shores bounded by sandy beaches and sunny skies. These are well-trodden places that people like to visit. Often, they appear to be startingly familiar. You might feel that you have already been there—or to somewhere very similar. There’s her noteworthy palette to consider, too. It’s unobtrusive. Though you immediately notice how this third-generation artist² occasionally swaddles her scenic vistas in pinks or blues, you probably remain unaware that she also practices restraint. She doesn’t overload her canvases with lots of different colors.                  As it is, Greenfield-Sanders upends our notions of how landscape artists proceed. She is not a plein air painter. She does not sketch, let alone create watercolors, in front [...]

2024-06-10T13:07:00+00:00

You’re My Favorite Thing by Far

Sebastian Blanck & Isca Greenfield-Sanders You're My Favorite Thing by Far Essay by Daniel Kehlmann One catalogue with six different covers, published to accompany Sebastian Blanck & Isca Greenfield-Sanders’ 2020 two person exhibition “You're My Favorite Thing by Far” at Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden. Contact WETTERLING GALLERY to purchase

2023-07-17T19:20:27+00:00

Painting In Parallel by Daniel Kehlmann, 2021

Painting in Parallel by DANIEL KEHLMANN I was lucky to discover the work of Isca and Sebastian simultaneously. It struck me immediately how much they talk to each other in their work, one centering nature and the other human beings. When I look at the paintings of Isca Greenfield-Sanders I often see beautiful, expansive landscapes, sometimes inhabited by tiny human silhouettes. But rather than being lost, overwhelmed or threatened by the powers of nature, they seem protected and at home. Nature isn’t hostile to them, and they are not hostile towards nature. Rather, nature comes to the fore as the majestic healing entity, quite literally, as well as spiritually. Isca’s work seems a reminder of the old idea that we have to inhabit the world, have to be in it, a part of it, because we are of the world, even though we don’t entirely belong there. There is a [...]

2024-06-10T13:05:26+00:00

Shade My Eyes

Isca Greenfield-Sanders, Shade My Eyes Essay "Open Window: On Isca Greenfield-Sanders's Grids" by Kris Paulsen Published to accompany Isca Greenfield-Sanders’ 2020 solo exhibition “Shade My Eyes” at Miles McEnery Gallery, New York. Contact MILES McENERY GALLERY to purchase

2023-07-17T19:21:27+00:00

Open Window by Kris Paulsen, 2020

Open Window: On Isca Greenfield-Sanders's Grids By KRIS PAULSEN A mountain, a beach, a turbulent sky; canoes sneaking across a lake at night; a helicopter high above treetops, caught just before leaving the frame; bathers spied on from above: These are fragments, images pulled out of context and stilled from the flow of time. Their framing, angles, and depth of field all speak the language of photography and the mathematical discipline and distancing enforced by the lens. The moments they preserve are ripe with reportage, contingency, and—simultaneously—a certain familiarity wrought by amateurism and the automation of capture. Content tethers them securely to the vernacular idioms of the documentation of middle-class family life. One can easily imagine seeing them click into view during a living-room slide show that distills the history of a life to its special moments. Yet, in this act of committing to the archive and official memory, these [...]

2024-06-10T13:05:21+00:00

Convertible

Convertible 2019 Color spitbite aquatint, aquatint with drypoint. Paper Size: 32” x 32” Edition of 35 Purchase/Inquire For her fifth project with the press, Isca Greenfield-Sanders continues her rich dialogue between photography and painting. Her three new prints, Convertible, Pink Mountain, and Tree Tunnel, are all landscapes depicting roads below her signature horizon line. The road is a perfect means to explore her ongoing examination of photography and its relationship to the American mythos. When we engage with themes of the road, we are led to thoughts of the road west, the human drive to move to somewhere better, the promised land, leisure, escape, the past and the future. It makes me think of Lil Nas X’s song “Old Town Road” and its record-holding time at the top of the music charts. The collective nostalgia for that path or way “home” struck [...]

2020-03-10T14:15:15+00:00

Pink Mountain

Pink Mountain 2019 Color spitbite aquatint, aquatint with drypoint. Paper Size: 32” x 32” Edition of 35 Purchase/Inquire For her fifth project with the press, Isca Greenfield-Sanders continues her rich dialogue between photography and painting. Her three new prints, Convertible, Pink Mountain, and Tree Tunnel, are all landscapes depicting roads below her signature horizon line. The road is a perfect means to explore her ongoing examination of photography and its relationship to the American mythos. When we engage with themes of the road, we are led to thoughts of the road west, the human drive to move to somewhere better, the promised land, leisure, escape, the past and the future. It makes me think of Lil Nas X’s song “Old Town Road” and its record-holding time at the top of the music charts. The collective nostalgia for that path or way “home” [...]

2020-03-10T14:27:18+00:00

Tree Tunnel

Tree Tunnel 2019 Color spitbite aquatint, sugarlift, aquatint. Paper Size: 32” x 32” Edition of 35 Purchase/Inquire For her fifth project with the press, Isca Greenfield-Sanders continues her rich dialogue between photography and painting. Her three new prints, Convertible, Pink Mountain, and Tree Tunnel, are all landscapes depicting roads below her signature horizon line. The road is a perfect means to explore her ongoing examination of photography and its relationship to the American mythos. When we engage with themes of the road, we are led to thoughts of the road west, the human drive to move to somewhere better, the promised land, leisure, escape, the past and the future. It makes me think of Lil Nas X’s song “Old Town Road” and its record-holding time at the top of the music charts. The collective nostalgia for that path or way “home” struck [...]

2020-03-10T14:09:58+00:00

SF Chronicle

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Datebook by Charles Desmaris | August 17, 2018 Isca Greenfield-Sanders: "Inherited Landscape":  There is a great chasm between paintings based on photographs that are intended as representations of the original subject, and paintings made to represent photographs.  The first is a socially accepted form of blatant lying, the latter an examination of the way we see and remember.  Isca Greenfield-Sanders, a New York artist who has shown often at Berggruen, is a master in the mold of the Bay Area's great Robert Bechtle at capturing the pathos of the world reduced to an entrapped image.  Oct. 18-Nov.21, 2018 Berggruen Gallery, 10 Hawthorne St., S.F. 415-781-4629.  www.berggruen.com  

2020-04-22T15:26:36+00:00

Landscape Painting Now | From Pop Abstraction to New Romanticism

. Excerpt from Landscape Painting Now | From Pop Abstraction to New Romanticism ISCA GREENFIELD-SANDERS Born 1978, New York, NY, USA.  Lives in New York, NYIsca Greenfield-Sanders makes square-format landscape painting, often beach scenes, based on vintage 35mm color slides.  Her interest in the still image as a stand-in for memory led her to develop a multistep process that combines photography, watercolor, and oil.  She scans and manipulates the source image, creates a watercolor study, enlarges it to a square of thirty-five or sixty-three inches, and transfers it to a canvas using a pair grid that remains faintly visible.  The final layer is painted with oils to create depth and allow evidence of the layering beneath. Drawing on her background in visual arts and mathematics, she creates her work in series, sometimes producing up to ten images from a single slide. Greenfield-Sanders’s choices often reveal the amateurish nature of her photographic [...]

2019-04-12T13:58:31+00:00
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