Jo Sandman

Jo Sandman began her career in 1951 with a residency at Black Mountain College. For more than six decades, she has been actively exploring her art as a sculptor, painter, photographer, and installation artist. Intrigued by Robert Rauschenberg and Cy Twombly’s use of unusual and different materials, she began to incorporate uncommon elements into her own work—cement, inner tubes, found objects, rocks, shells, rubber piping, to name a few—creating objects painted without paint and defying our understanding of specific category. Earlier works were minimal and abstract, yet with each evolution she has referenced previous images creating a continuous and expanding body of work. The process has always been as important as the subject matter.

Sandman’s work appears in numerous private and public collections, some which include: The Addison Gallery of American Art, The Boston Public Library, The Dallas Museum of art, The Danforth Museum of Art, The DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, The Rose Museum, The Seattle Museum of Art, and the Weatherspoon Gallery at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.