SIGRID SANDSTRÖM: JANUS
Sigrid Sandström explores site as a concept as well as experience. Her large-scale, barren and uninhabited landscapes have gradually drifted toward abstraction over time. Failing to conform to specific categories of painting, her work continuously investigates the ontological conditions and limitations of the medium of painting. This indeterminacy forms a central role both in its investigative production and its relationship to the viewer.
Sigrid Sandström (b. 1970) studied at Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY and earned a BFA at Academie Minerva, Groningen, The Netherlands. Sandström attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME and received an MFA in Painting from Yale University, New Haven, CT. Her work is in the public collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; Borås Konstmuseum, Borås, Sweden; Malmö konstmuseum, Malmö, Sweden; The Public art Agency, Sweden; Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS; Västerås konstmuseum, Västerås, Sweden, and Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT. Sandström lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden.