Where sophistication meets sustainability - extraordinary eco-friendly fine art that is kind to the earth. by Sandhi Schimmel Gold
Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. These "pictures" are made up of thousands of words.
My vision is to create beautiful images. I employ the disciplines of painting & mosaic to create a connected collection of representational or abstract images in segments of color - utilizing resources that would otherwise go to waste.
It is my mission to create fine art from a variety of materials and messages. I upcycle the materials advertisers use to bombard society with their version of beauty – in images and verbiage.
I believe we are an aggregate of tiny bits: who we are and where we've been - or who we want or pretend to be. The tesserae, the "tiles" I create represent those bits in color and texture and meaning.
It’s a spiritual and an artistic calling, complete with the inherent agony and ecstasy.
It's also an organic communion of thought and inspiration. I portray faces as I imagine they might be using images from advertising ephemera. I am motivated by external stimuli - art and beauty, fashion and design.
It’s the attention and dedication to craft – hand-cutting, hand-fitting each tiny piece – the work includes thousands of pieces – from squares to shards.
Each piece expresses a mood – a calculated effect - high drama, serenity, sexuality or humor.
I am a rabid recycler - I am compelled to upcycle unusual resources to create my art. Look closely for menu items, junk mail postcards, business cards, old greeting cards, cruise itineraries, gallery openings... stand back to view the sum of the parts - a textural representation of beauty.
"What's in a face?" "What is beauty?" I was forced to explore this concept when my own face was radically changed. What is society's version of beauty? Celebrities, models, images made for advertising - the eternal come-on...
What's in a face? It is only a visage we present for review. Can you see the “thinker behind the eyes” through an intricate facade... a false front?
Yes, my work is very "busy." In my head, Synesthesia*, Eidetic Imagery*, Perfect Pitch* and an unquenchable desire to delve into concepts, history, images and ideas – compete and collide. I take fascinating and colorful expeditions down rabbit holes. My art reflects the flashing of images on the screen of my brain... images in tiny bits, in a color scheme that may only exist in my mind.
Sandhi Schimmel Gold
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"Tosca"
(c) 2009
24x30"
"The Birth of Venus"
(c) 2009
36x60x2"
All images in this gallery are subject to copyrights of S A Schimmel Gold and are protected by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) and by the Berne Convention. Reproduction, storage or transmittal by any means, of any image on this web site, whole or in part, is prohibited without express prior written permission. Original art or giclee prints purchased from this gallery may not be reproduced or scanned for any reason. If you wish to publish or reproduce the materials in any physical or digital form or use them for any commercial purpose, including display or Web page use, you must obtain prior written permission from the artist.
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"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the hearts' affections and the truth of imagination - what the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth whether it existed before or not."
- John Keats
"Being average scares the hell out of me."
-Terry Gilliam
"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique."
- Martha Graham
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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