Artist

Lisa Sanditz

Born in St Louis, Missouri, 1973 and lives in New York

Lisa Sanditz’s pulsating, vibrantly coloured landscapes capture the intersection between the natural world and the built environment and its effect on food production, consumption, ecology and the economy. Her works are rooted in a fascination of how we organize ourselves in a commercial world and how we value and commodify the landscape. This interest in the commercialised landscape has seen Sanditz focus on farming in America’s Midwest, junk food factories in Arizona and car manufacturing in Detroit.

Alongside oil painting and ceramic work, Sanditz has also used plastics and industrial paint, such as that used to spray-paint cars, which she builds up in layers on the canvas, before sanding the surface to reveal the layers of paint, aiming to reflect the embedded nature of man-made products within our landscapes. Throughout her work, colour has remained of constant importance and she uses it in multi-faceted ways within her landscapes. Above all, colour is used as a destabilising force in her painting, in which she re-configures the canvas into a series of breaks and ruptures and streaks of colour, while simultaneously using it to delineate the boundaries between foreground and background and to unify the composition.

Sanditz’ work has been exhibited internationally in the United States, Italy, China and Belgium and is included in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas and the Columbus Art Museum, Ohio. Sanditz has also worked as the visiting artist at SUNY Purchase, the University of New Orleans and Rhode Island School of Design.

Exhibitions
Exhibitions
You Might Believe You’re There
A group exhibition from the collection of Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz touches upon the confluence of anxiety, confusion, wanderlust, and loss born out of the recent years' global pandemic.
08 Oct 2021 - 26 Mar 2022
Girls’ Club Warehouse
Miami
Exhibitions
Self Proliferation
An homage to the eclectic and idiosyncratic collection of Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz, Self...
12 Nov 2015 - 12 Sep 2016
Miami
Exhibitions
Women Painting at MDC
The exhibition curated by Girls’ Club Collections curators Sarah Michelle Rupert and Michelle Weinberg...
18 May 2017 - 29 Sep 2017
MDC Kendall Campus
Miami
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