Abstract art messes with you and I wholeheartedly agree.
Follow The Thread to Meatpacking District
Come release a little anxiety in my Emotional Baggage Carts 🛒 installed on the streets of NYC for Follow The Thread. Curated by @ivyjeannebrowngallery
➡️ OUTDOOR INSTALLATION
MEATPACKING PLAZA
675 Hudson Street
New York NYC
For FOLLOW THE THREAD
promoted by @artemorbida
Flux Treasure Island
Date: October 21-23, Friday & Weekends 10:00 am – 5 pm
Location: Flux Factory on Governors Island, Colonels Row 404A
Flux Treasure Island is an island-wide scavenger hunt, taking place over Friday October 21 through Sunday October 23. Artworks will be hidden all across Governors Island in secret unexpected locations.
Strange nooks, wooded groves, long-disused forts: anywhere.
Cryptic clues on a treasure map will guide visitors to their destinations. Works will include site-specific sculpture, performance, video, AR, and more. They might respond to the local area and its history, or maybe they will play with viewer’s perceptions. Some pieces will only be visible at certain times, so everyone’s experience will be different.
Come to Flux HQ at 404a Colonels Row and pick up a treasure map. From there, the island is yours to explore. Come find my work on the map
Curated by Georgia Muenster
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Chutes and Ladders Installation
Despite a growing commitment to racial equity, the day-to-day experiences of women of color are not improving. Women of color face similar types and frequencies of disrespectful and “othering” behavior as they did two years ago before the Black Lives Matter movement galvanized worldwide.
Most days, I feel like I am scrambling to the top of Chutes and Ladders’, board game. For each step forward, take two steps back. Land on good deeds of allyship to climb ladders, but watch out for the haters, their passive aggressive chutes are a doozy and will send you tumbling down the ladder, to start the climb all over, again.
On view at Art150 studio #231, 2nd floor 150 Bay Street. Enter at 1st Street and Provost and ride the elevator up to the 2nd floor. My studio is on the Bay Street side of the building.
Chutes and Ladders is on display though the end of June and is a featured event for JCFridays Friday June 3rd from 6:00-9:00pm.
Chutes and Ladders
Vintage Gi Joe action figures, black metallic yarn, handmade eyelash yarn, black and brown cotton/rayon poly blend fabric, African printed fabric, vintage African fabric wrapped on recycled polyurethane spliced jungle gym rope netting.
79 x 24 x 72 in
2022
Free Your Mind
Free Your Mind is a collection of personal narratives. You are invited to share an personal experience with implicit bias to release this story from your personal narrative.
Later, I will weave your stories into the installation as a computer generated voice recording. Motion sensors will trigger recordings when visitors interact with the installation.
Bottle Cap Pearls
Close Up Bottle Cap Pearls Full view
Inspired by my home school virtual artist residency with NOW Friends in Nairobi Kenya.
See this work at Art Fair 14C and Untitled Art Fair during Miami Art Week.
Big Mouth On View
This body of work is a collection of one sided conversations. As a woman, I find it is often easier to make my way in the world by keeping my mouth shut. To simply grin and bare it when haters, well meaning friends or co-workers say or do something incorrect or insensitive.
As a child, my father would say to me, “Better to be thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt”. So in keeping my mouth shut, I learned, to be seen, and selectively heard.
With ‘Big Mouth’, I am all of it. The sass, the crass, the erudite and more than that, aware. Aware of the language used to quiet me down. To remind me of what is and most importantly, what isn’t being said.
“Neon Auto Tune” Theda Sandiford Digital Collage on Metallic Photo Paper, AP 14″x11″m 20″x16″ framed “Of Thee I Sing” Theda Sandiford Digital Collage on Metallic Photo Paper, AP 14″x11″m 20″x16″ framed “B Rhapsody” Theda Sandiford Digital Collage on Metallic Photo Paper, AP 14″x11″m 20″x16″ framed “Alto” Theda Sandiford Digital Collage on Metallic Photo Paper, AP 14″x11″m 20″x16″ framed “Stay Woke” Theda Sandiford Golden High Flow acrylic, Golden Soft Gel Gloss acrylic skin, Tulip dimensional fabric paint, gesso, Montana Gold spray paint, recycled envelops, fabric squares from a quilt, tissue paper, felt from post consumer recycled fibers, glitter stars on canvas. 20″x20″x1″ “Me Too” Theda Sandiford Golden High Flow acrylic, Golden Soft Gel Gloss acrylic skin, Tulip dimensional fabric paint, gesso, Montana Gold spray paint, recycled envelops, fabric squares from a quilt, tissue paper, felt from post consumer recycled fibers, glitter stars on canvas. 20″x20″x1″ “Wakanda Forever” Theda Sandiford Golden High Flow acrylic, Golden Soft Gel Gloss acrylic skin, Tulip dimensional fabric paint, gesso, Montana Gold spray paint, recycled envelops, fabric squares from a quilt, tissue paper, felt from post consumer recycled fibers, glitter stars on canvas. 20″x20″x1″ “I Can’t Even” 24″ x 18″ x 1″ in Medium: Acrylic paint, acrylic skin, plastic mesh, self leveling gel, tissue paper, cardboard, vinyl, glitter, gold leaf, beads, rhinestones, marbles, plastic army men on canvas board. October 2017 “By the Seat of my Pants” 20″x20″x1 Mixed Media Canvas “Never Hide” 20″x20″x1 Mixed Media Canvas Acrylic skin, painted cardboard, tissue paper, recycled envelops, glitter, beads, bottle caps 2017 I define my own identity and relish the opportunity to occupy the position of both insider and outsider rather than insider or outsider. This is one of the many masks I wear. Wine -o -Clock Theda Sandiford 20″x20″x1 Mixed Media Canvas Made with Handmade paper, recycled paper, tissue paper, newspaper, magazine cut out, acrylic skins, acrylic paint, glitter and recycled memory jewel. 2017
Tag 1 is Massive: Installation View
Just how massive is theTag 1 installation?Ă‚Â That’s me in the photo with my pieces at the Nice & Nasty Newark Arts Exhibition for context…
Yeah, that is real BIG…Ă‚Â 20’x10’x6″ big…
Newark Arts Festival gets Nice-Nasty
Nice-Nasty; and Everything In-Between… Opening Reception
DATE:Ă‚Â Thursday, October 4, 2018
TIME: 6:00pm-10:00pm
LOCATION: 54 Halsey Street, 3rd Floor | Newark, NJ 07102
Last Chance to see Tag 1 Installation
I’m am deinstalling Tag 1 on August 19th at A Condos
If you haven’t seen it yet, you should. I’m really proud of the result and plan to explore more work of this ilk.
Please go see it in person. The fabric plays a trick on the eye.
Walk into the lobby anytime atĂ‚Â 389 Washington Avenue, Jersey CityYou can’t miss it covering the entire wall.