ARTNET Where's the Ball by CHARLIE FINCH   Now that the great painter Isca Greenfield-Sanders is officially represented by Haunch of Venison Gallery, she is unveiling a new series of irononostalgic paintings with the irrresistible subject of young boys playing soccer, aka "football." So prolific is Isca that she is dividing the new paintings between her first museum show, opening Oct. 16, 2010, at the Denver MCA and a solo show the following week at John Berggruen Gallery in San Francisco. I journeyed to Isca’ East Village studio to look over the football series the day before they shipped out to points West, and the first thing I said was, "These remind me of Degas’ horse racing paintings." Isca bussed me on the cheek in a grandaughterly fashion and said, "Charlie, that was my biggest influence. People look at these paintings and ask me about the World Cup. I know [...]

HUFFINGTON POST Celebrating Photography's Flaws Through Painting and Drawing By LEANNE GOEBEL | February 2, 2011 Since the advent of photography, visual artists have taken to using photographic images as raw data they then translate from film or digital file to their chosen medium. With the death of film upon us, more and more contemporary artists seem to be exploring what that means. Currently on view in Denver are two such artists: Isca Greenfield-Sanders who translates photographic memories to complexly layered mixed media canvases and Marc Brandenburg who chooses graphite and Fabriano paper to draw images in negative. The result for the viewer is easy access to contemporary visual art via the all familiar photograph, however the more one looks at these works, the more one questions the complexities beneath the surface. Both artists use imagery sourced from current or recent history, but their intentions and results are dramatically different. Isca [...]

MODERN PAINTERS Bio Pic / The Story Behind an Artwork by ISCA GREENFIELD-SANDERS This is "Light Leak III (Soccer)," 2010, an oil painting based on a photograph from the 1960s. This one came from a 700-slide lot I bought sometime in 2008; I purchase vintage archives on eBay. The soccer images were a thrill to find because I love working in series. Once you see this series of paintings in a room, it’s like, "Okay, these are the soccer paintings." But in fact, the content of the paintings, the subject matter, is not really soccer. It’s really the problems inherent to the medium that the original images were captured in, which is film, and it’s about the process of overlaying or redoing that work as an oil painting. The soccer images suited my interest in figures in motion, and they had the color and the sort of art-historical references that [...]

ART IN PRINT Prix de Print No. 5 / Isca Greenfield-Sanders: Pikes Peak Juried by GILL SAUNDERS Judging a print prize on the basis of anonymous digital images is standard practice, but challenging nonetheless. Deprived of the usual apparatus of supporting information that comes with an attribution, one’s choice becomes much more subjective, grounded only in the appearance of the image and the facts of title, medium, dimensions and edition number. In these circumstances I found myself approaching the role as juror for the Prix de Print feeling somewhat daunted. I wanted to find a print in which the artist had achieved a considered and effective marriage of process and purpose, a print that would repay prolonged and repeated viewing. Several candidates vied for the prize, but this print, Pikes Peak, emerged from a repeated shuffling and short-listing of the applicants, quietly asserting its place in every cut even as [...]

ARTSY Isca Greenfield-Sanders Captures Summer Days and the Beauty of Nostalgia by M. OSBERG | February, 2016 Isca Greenfield-Sanders’ prints and paintings are intended to mimic the fuzzy and often distorted logic of nostalgia. Her works encapsulate the effect of recalling a memory over and over; with time, we gradually forget details, only remembering the strongest colors, lights, shapes, and feelings. This act of repetition and the subtle variation that ensues, makes the artist’s practice perfectly aligned with printmaking. Greenfield-Sanders has crafted a meticulous process to create her works, adding color and light to other people’s memories. Since finishing degrees in math and fine arts over 15 years ago, she has focused her craft on specific form of image-making, which seamlessly melds photography and painting. She begins by collecting other people’s old photographs—often scenes of American leisure from the 1950s and ‘60s—from varied sources like eBay or yard sales. She [...]

GALERIE MAGAZINE Isca Greenfield-Sanders Creates Dreamy, Vintage-Inspired Paintings / The New-York based painter explores the role of memory in this not-to-be-missed Chelsea exhibition by SASKIA RANDLE | June 13, 2017   Moon Beach, 2017. Photo: Courtesy of the artist and Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe, New York, NY This June, visitors to Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe gallery in Chelsea, Manhattan, are confronted with a sea of blues, both literal and figurative, and a strong sense of nostalgia for summers spent by the sea. “Keep Them Still” is an exhibition of striking new works by New York-based artist Isca Greenfield-Sanders, on display through July 1. A collection of watercolor-and-oil paintings depicting blurred, sun-dappled beach scenes and close-ups of abstracted rippled waves fill the rooms. In the first space, two wave paintings—one pink and one blue—hang opposite a pair of zoomed-out coastline paintings from which they were extracted and distilled. An installation view of “Keep Them Still.” Photo: [...]