"I still think abstract painting is a world unto itself, a parallel universe infinitely unknown—a representation of its complexity— not unlike the beauty of music, mathematics and nature’s material spirit.”
– Sandi Slone
Even though Sandi Slone has often worked with oversized brushes — an early series of abstract paintings made with large brooms established her reputation as a young painter — she long has had a predilection for intimate gestures and unexpected incidents that signal visual metaphors for everything from the physicality of color that impacts the sensuality of landscape memory and the body — to the current state of our fraught planet. While Slone does not limit herself to any one technique or style there has always been a sense of calligraphic hand and muscular touch that expands the language of contemporary abstraction as much as her sweeping swaths of color and transparent pours do.