Location: Studio Montclair; 127 Bloomfield Ave, Montclair, NJ
Kitt And Kabodoodle
Size: 14 x 11 in
Framed Size: 18 x 14 in
Limited edition 1/5 Digital Prints on Metallic Photo Paper
May 2018
Repurposed: 4th Annual Juried Exhibition
Exhibition Dates: July 5- July 27, 2019
Location: Arthaus Projects; 140 W. 4th St. Williamsport, PA
“Repurposed” is a juried exhibition focused on the adaptive reuse of materials to create new art. Participating artists were asked to create an original piece of artwork that utilizes some sort of found object, or unusual recycled medium as the base for the piece. I used bottle caps.
36″x36″x2″ mixed media assemblage on cradled birch. Matte medium, self leveling gel, acrylics, gel ink, tissue paper, newspaper, handmade paper, die cuts, recycled bottle caps, beads, glitter, rhinestones, wood beads
Combined Talents 2019 Juried Competition
Exhibition Dates: August 19 – September 29, 2019
Location: Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts; 530 West Call Street, Tallahassee, FloridaÂ
There will be an opening reception on Friday, August 30th, from 6:00-8:00pm.
48″x36″x2″
Mixed Media
2017
I LOVE Wonder Woman. I grew up watching the Linda Carter’s Wonder Woman and wanted to be a bad ass too. After seeing Patty Jenkins’s Wonder Woman in Theaters, I knew I had to pattern my next Super Selfie after Wonder Woman
LOCATION: Drawing Rooms: Topps Building; 26 Newark Ave #T107, Jersey City, New Jersey 07306
Artists were asked to create works that relate to new beginnings, new adventure, new body of work, outer space, atmosphere, place, transportation, land, nature, or utopia. Hundreds of works are on sale during the course of the show, 5/3/19 – 5/11/19, for $200 each.
I made a series of collages from my airplane ticket stubs and a lino print i carved in flight from LA to Newark.
OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, May 4 from 7:00 – 9:00 pm.
LOCATION: Studio Montclair Gallery located at 127 Bloomfield Avenue in Montclair, NJ.
This exhibit will be on display from May 2 to June 15, 2019.
Wonder Woman Selfie’ is a collage for the ages. Colorful, warm and strong – it reflects the best of what a person can see in themselves.
48″x36″x2″ Mixed Media 2017 I LOVE Wonder Woman. I grew up watching the Linda Carter’s Wonder Woman and wanted to be a bad ass too. After seeing Patty Jenkins’s Wonder Woman in Theaters, I knew I had to pattern my next Super Selfie after Wonder Woman ‘
No Boundaries Benefit
BENEFIT: Saturday, May 4th, 2019 8:00-11:00pm
LOCATION: The Woodland; 60 Woodland Road Maplewood, NJ
LOCATION‘: Community Gallery at ValleyArts: 400 S. Jefferson St., Orange, NJ
Mark your calendar for the Artist Talk and Closing Celebration on June 8, 3-5pm to see this piece and learn more about my Wonder Women series.
“Most performers take themselves too seriously. They forget there is a difference between the characters they play on the screen or stage and themselves, but the public doesn’t forget there is a difference. They see how silly it is if you try to be the same person all the time.”
For a perfect side-eye you have to keep your head steady and straight ahead and do it all with your eyes.
Side Eye
Limited Edition (3/5) Aluminum Print
24 x 20 x 1 in
2015
World Collage Day Pop Up Exhibition
Pop Up Collage Show : Saturday May 11, 2019, 1:00-5:00pm
LOCATION: Garden Level Gallery: 315 3rd Street, Jersey City NJ
Celebrate World Collage Day with me, as we honor our local community of artists and the art of collage!
Get inspiration from our World Collage Day Pop Up Exhibition and then spend an afternoon making artwork with the participating artists. #worldcollageday
Participating Artists: Luis Alves Collage: Luis Alves’s photo collages utilizes appropriated imagery from magazines, to incite dialogue on the role the media plays in the shaping of our lives. Each collage is hand-manipulated with the goal of transformation as a way of commenting on, satirizing or criticizing the source material.
Theda Sandiford: Theda Sandiford: Using internal conflict and diverse recycled materials as a starting point she constructs a mixed media mask to protect herself from fear. What may start off as an ugly statement about herself, is in the end transformed into something beautiful. Theda photographs her process and then digitally manipulate these images to extend the narrative.
Leslie Sheryll: Leslie Sheryll’s photo based collages start with appropriated 19th century tintypes which she scans and digitally manipulates. Sheryll then incorporate historical facts, imagery, personal experience and an infusion of fantasy to create a new narrative about women
BradTerhune: Brad Terhune is forever seeking out new materials to work with leads to changes in style and subject. Terhune looks to create a weird, surreal world, and have been influenced by early twentieth century art movements that embraced and explored collage, while continuing to explore this vibrant medium in the contemporary arena.
Let’s show the world what it looks like when people come together as a community. #worldcollageday
Bring paper, magazines, found materials and your preferred substrate. I have paint, scissors and various glues… $5 suggested donation to cover material costs.
Welcome to Fight Club
Digital Print On Metallic Photo Paper
20 x 20 in
Framed Size: 22 x 22 x 1 in
2017
Being a black woman in corporate America is like Fight Club. I must mold my personality to be palatable as a peach and keep my opinions to myself.
The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club.
The second rule of Fight Club is: you DO NOT talk about Fight Club!
Third rule of Fight Club: if someone yells “stop!â€, goes limp, or taps out, your career is over.
2019 Cathedral Arts Festival
CHAMPAGNE GALA: Saturday, May 18, 2019, 7:00pm.
LOCATION: Grace Church Van Vorst, 39 Erie St, Jersey City NJ
Exhibition on view through June 7th,
I’m always down for a champagne gala. Join me. Tickets may be purchased for $50 by cash or check at drop-off or online at www.cathedralartslive.org.Tickets will cost $60 at the door.
I made these abstract figurative self portraits over the course of 5 weekends using the fine print from my MS infusion drug, Tysbari, paper scraps and mono-printed deli paper. Take a close look at the fine print to see the multitude of symptoms i’m dealing with this hidden illness. Each drawing is representative of a MS treatment, I get infusions every 6 weeks to suppress my immune system and slow the progression of the disease.
Hidden Figure #11, Acrylic paint, Sharpie, colored pencils, pastels, Distress Stain, mica spray, Tysabri newsprint, hand printed deli paper, construction paper, recycled Tazo tea box, tulle, glitter stars, glitter glue and rhinestones on Canson paper. 2018
Hidden Figure #7, 12″x9″, Mixed Media; Acrylic paint, Sharpie, colored pencils, pastels, Distress Stain, mica spray, Tysabri newsprint, hand printed deli paper, construction paper, recycled Tazo tea box, tulle, glitter stars, glitter glue and rhinestones on Canson paper. 2018
Fear: anxiety, terror, hatred, malevolence, jealousy, anger. We all experience these emotions. I channel my emotions into my artwork so I can feel FREE from constraints.
Exhibition Dates: April 2- 29, 2019
Opening Reception: Sunday, April 7, 2009, 3-5:45pm
Panel Discussion from 4-5pm.
LOCATION: Montclair Public Library Gallery located a 50 S. Fullerton Avenue in Montclair, NJ.
Masking Fear, This is the mask I wear when dealing with nasty gossip. Notice the repeating eyes seeing in front and the back of my head, so haters beware, I can see you even when you whisper behind my back
Insider Outsider, Gossips don’t really know who I am. My identity is hidden, making me an Outsider. Talk to me, not about me if you want to know me
Gossips, Nasty gossip rocks my boat, it’s impact reverts me to being an Outsider rather than both Insider and Outsider which is a place of power for me.
Give Me Body!: Femme Re-Divined Seeks to unravel how far society has come in our understanding, recognition, and celebration of the femme form — mind, body, and soul.
Exhibition Dates: Show is on display through April 12th. Don’t miss it.
LOCATION: Museum of African Diaspora Arts (MoCADA) 80 Hanson Place, Brooklyn NY
“Neon Auto Tune”
Theda Sandiford
Digital Collage on Metallic Photo Paper, AP
14″x11″m 20″x16″ framed
Studio Montclair’s: Love And Fear
Exhibition Dates: April 2 – April 29, 2019
Opening Reception: Sunday, April 7th, 3:00-5:45pm with a Panel Discussion 4:00-5:00pm
LOCATION: Montclair Public Library located at 50 S. Fullerton Avenue in Montclair NJ.
Masking Fear, This is the mask I wear when dealing with nasty gossip. Notice the repeating eyes seeing in front and the back of my head, so haters beware, I can see you even when you whisper behind my back
Spring Art Supply Swap
Marie Condo your art supplies… Bring a bag of supplies you are not using and swap it for something else. Craft paper, paint, colored pencils, frames, yarn, fabric… you get the idea. Anything goes.
Save the Date: Saturday, April 13, 2019, 12:00-3:00pm. Please RSVP
LOCATION: Garden Level Gallery, 315 3rd Street Jersey City NJ
Yarn Wrapping Circle
Imagine, hair. The elusive, coveted “good” hair. On some days and for some people, that is my hair. Or was. Or can be. But you should know by now – Don’t. Touch. My. Hair. That is unless you come help me make hair made from rope and yarn in this Yarn Wrapping Circle. No experience necessary, I will teach you the knots. Come for the fellowship or to try something new.
Save the Date: Sunday, April 14th 2019, 1:00-4:00, Please RSVP
LOCATION: Garden Level Gallery, 315 3rd Street Jersey City NJ
Viewpoints 2019
Exhibition Dates: May 2- June 15, 2019
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 4th from 7:00pm-9:00pm
LOCATION: Studio Montclair Gallery, 127 Bloomfield Avenue, Montclair NJ
Side Eye will be displayed on banners installed prominently in Montclair’s business and arts districts this Fall.
The Limited Edition, 3/5 aluminum print will be displayed in one of SMI’s gallery spaces during the fall of 2018 (more info to come). DM me if you are interested in this piece. There are two left in this edition.
A huge thank you to juror, Nette Forne Thomas for selecting my work. I am humbled.
For a perfect side-eye you have to keep your head steady and straight ahead and do it all with your eyes. Side Eye 24 x 20 x 1 in Aluminum Print Subject Matter: Identity 2015
The day after I get back from St. Croix, June 2, it’s art partying time. Let me know if you are down to play.
I have two openings on Saturday June 2. The first in Montclair and the second in Asbury Park. Im trying to hit both. Do you want to come with? ill drive.
Viewpoints 2018
Opening Reception: June 2, 6:00 – 9:00 pm
LOCATION: Studio Montclair, 127 Bloomfield Ave., Montclair, NJ
This is the second time, i’ve earned entry into Viewpoints. The show was juried by Gary Garrido Schneider, the Executive Director of Grounds for Sculpture.
Psykhe Size: 20 x 20 in Medium: Fine Art Print Psyche was the goddess of the soul and the wife of Eros god of love. She was once a mortal princess whose beauty earned the ire of Aphrodite when men began turning their worship away from the goddess towards the girl. Aphrodite commanded Eros make Psykhe fall in love with the most hideous of men but the god instead fell in love and carried her off to a hidden palace. Eros hid his true identity and told Psykhe she must never gaze upon his face. Her jealous sisters, however, tricked her into disobeying and the angry god forsook her. Psykhe searched the world for her lost love and eventually came into the service of Aphrodite. The goddess commanded her perform a series of seemingly impossible tasks which culminated in a journey to the Underworld. Psykhe was afterwards reunited with Eros and the couple were married in a ceremony attended by all the gods.
Hoboken Art in Asbury Park
Opening Reception: June 2, 7:00-10:00 pm
LOCATION: Palette Gallery, 716 Cookman Ave, Asbury Park, NJ
The opening reception of my lobby installation at A Condo is
Friday June 8th 7:00 – 9:00pm.
LOCATION: 389 Washington St, Jersey City, NJ
I am draping a huge 20’x20′ printed fabric and showing 6 new digital collages, 4 early mixed media works and a selection affordable small works on paper. Please come see and have a glass of wine on me. The wine will be flowing. Let me know if you can make it. Its a short Path train stop to Newport Pavonia or Grove Street and walk over.
“Tag 1” Digital photo collage. Street Art Mash Up 2015 #ThedaSandiford #Graffiti
Later this summer…
AHAC Window Display Aug./Sept. at the Atlantic Highlands Arts Council
54 1st Avenue Atlantic Highlands, NJ 07716
https://aharts.org/
I have a window installation idea brewing, worthy of Anthropologie display. I need large plastic laundry and Orange Juice bottle caps. Please let me know if you can save these for me.
Yeah, it has finally stopped snowing and the flowers have popped out. I’ll be living on Zyrtec, a scratchy throat and watery eyes for the next month but, i’m not really complaining. Nice weather means, long walks and serendipitous art supply finds and a host of art happenings in NY and NJ. I hope to see you at one of my shows soon.
I’lll be in LA for work, but its your last chance to see “Song Sung Blue” at
Show me Your Heritage Work on display from April 13- May 11th.
LOCATION: Hola Doctor353 Central Avenue Jersey City Heights, NJ.
Last year I sold “Selfie Joy” at BWAC Recycle 2017. This year my Wonder Woman Selfie is making her debut at BWAC Recycle 2018.
Please come meet me for lunch at 12:30pm at Brooklyn Crab in Red Hook before the show. RSVP for head count and to hold your seat.
There will be a reception and juror’s awards will be announced at the Opening at 3PM.
BWAC Recycle 2018
OPENING DAY Saturday, May 12, 1pm – 6 pm
Work will be on display May 12 – Jun17th
LOCATION: 481 Van Brunt St Brooklyn, NY, DOOR 7
Twin will be up for auction at
Cool Culture at The UnGala
A night of art, community, inspiration and creativity #artforall
May 31st from 7:00pm-10:0pm
The Cool Culture UnGala is a yearly fundraiser, celebrating and honoring individuals and organizations that have demonstrated a commitment to social justice, inclusion, and arts access. For tickets and more information click here.
“Twin” 30 x 24 x 1 in Aluminum Print Subject Matter: Self Portrait 2015
Viewpoints 2018
The opening reception is Saturday, June 2 from 6-9pm.
This exhibit will be on display from June 2 – August 16, 2018
LOCATION: Studio Montclair Gallery located at 127 Bloomfield Ave. in Montclair, NJ.
Psykhe Size: 20 x 20 in Medium: Fine Art Print Psyche was the goddess of the soul and the wife of Eros god of love. She was once a mortal princess whose beauty earned the ire of Aphrodite when men began turning their worship away from the goddess towards the girl. Aphrodite commanded Eros make Psykhe fall in love with the most hideous of men but the god instead fell in love and carried her off to a hidden palace. Eros hid his true identity and told Psykhe she must never gaze upon his face. Her jealous sisters, however, tricked her into disobeying and the angry god forsook her. Psykhe searched the world for her lost love and eventually came into the service of Aphrodite. The goddess commanded her perform a series of seemingly impossible tasks which culminated in a journey to the Underworld. Psykhe was afterwards reunited with Eros and the couple were married in a ceremony attended by all the gods.
approaching Vibrancy
Work is on display through August 24th
LOCATION: 14 Maple Ave, Morristown, NJ.
If you happen to be in Lake Como, Italy please swing my Lido di Cernobbio. The restaurant just installed floor to ceiling light-boxes of my works, Never Hide, Selfie Joy and Wonder Woman Selfie.
Upcoming Shows:
Show Me Your Heritage!
Bene Gesserit and Coffee Table Jazz, my passion for Dune and Jazz respectively will be on display from April 13- May 11th. The opening reception will be  Friday, April 13, 2018 6:00pm – 8:00pm at Hola Doctor353 Central Avenue Jersey City Heights, NJ.
BWAC Recycle 2018
“Wonder Woman Selfie” makes her debut May 12 – June 16th at 481 Van Brunt St, Brooklyn, NY. The opening reception is May 12, 12:00pm-6:00pm. I’ll be getting lunch at Hometown BBQ if you want to meet there first. I plan to be at the reception by 2:00pm. Let me know.
48″x36″x2″ Mixed Media 2017 I LOVE Wonder Woman. I grew up watching the Linda Carter’s Wonder Woman and wanted to be a bad ass too. After seeing Patty Jenkins’s Wonder Woman in Theaters, I knew I had to pattern my next Super Selfie after Wonder Woman
Viewpoints 2018
“Psyhke” was selected for Studio Montclair’s juried competition Viewpoints 2018. The show runs June 2 – August 16. Visit Studio Montclair at 127 Bloomfield Ave, Montclair, NJ 07042, USA
Psykhe Size: 20 x 20 in Medium: Fine Art Print Psyche was the goddess of the soul and the wife of Eros god of love. She was once a mortal princess whose beauty earned the ire of Aphrodite when men began turning their worship away from the goddess towards the girl. Aphrodite commanded Eros make Psykhe fall in love with the most hideous of men but the god instead fell in love and carried her off to a hidden palace. Eros hid his true identity and told Psykhe she must never gaze upon his face. Her jealous sisters, however, tricked her into disobeying and the angry god forsook her. Psykhe searched the world for her lost love and eventually came into the service of Aphrodite. The goddess commanded her perform a series of seemingly impossible tasks which culminated in a journey to the Underworld. Psykhe was afterwards reunited with Eros and the couple were married in a ceremony attended by all the gods.
By The Seat of My Pants has been selected for ‘State of the Art 2018’ exhibit on display from February 2 – April 27, 2018 at the Academy Square Galleries located at 33 Plymouth Street in Montclair, NJ.
The opening reception is Friday, February 2 from 7:00-9:00pm. I’ll be there. Please come.
I define my own identity and relish the opportunity to occupy the position of both insider and outsider rather than insider or outsider.
