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Sandra Pratt
Sandra Pratt is an American painter who anchors her artistic vision in landscape, cityscape, and coastal painting. Her impressionist style is infused with boldness, spontaneity, and emotion, her every knife stroke strives to capture reality through the lens of her imagination and personal feelingings. It is her unique experiences that enable her to bring seemingly ordinary scenes to life on canvas by employing a plethora of unconventional painting techniques.
My approach to making art is guided by intuition and intense observation of the subject. The act of painting releases a stream of consciousness and creative energy that reveals my view of reality. The tension between visual perception and engaging with the paint itself guides my process. It straddles the line between realism and abstraction. Painting leaves a record of my experience. It is my most poignant and genuine means of expression. My paintings are not intended to convey a specific message, but rather to evoke an emotion from the viewer.
I enjoy using a palette knife for the immediate bold statement it offers. I started painting and drawing as a young child and studied for a while at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago but ultimately decided to be a self-taught artist, My work is in many private and public collections, it has been exhibited at the Brattleboro Museum, Allied Artists of America in NY, A.R. Mitchell Museum and the Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art .
"She is an intuitive artist whose instinct is genuine and true. She is able to take in her surrounding, whether they be an alleyway in Europe, a show at a museum, or a poem from her childhood, and transcribe those ideas onto canvas. Emotional and spontaneous, she has a gut reaction to the paint and how it should be used."
-Southwest Art Magazine
"Sandra Pratt's landscapes rise from the canvas, their surfaces thick enough to be sculptural. Her quick swipes stand on their own as slices of a tremulous second, living between the sky and tomorrow. Each painting is the result of a single sitting. In doing her work that way, Pratt catches the energy of the moment."
-Western Art & Architecture
Exhibitions
2022 "Solo Show" Abend Gallery, Denver, CO 2021
"Beyond the Surface" Mockingbird Gallery, Bend OR 2021 "
4 Person Show", Rice Polak Gallery 2018
"Solo Show" Smith Klein Gallery, Boulder, CO
2017 "Abundance" Solo Show Selby Fleetwood Gallery, NM
2017 Two Person Show Mockingbird Gallery, Bend OR
2015 Vilona Gallery, Boulder CO
2015 "Snow" Selby Fleetwood Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2014 Group Show Plein Air Austin, Dougherty Center, Austin TX
2014 Solo Show Selby Fleetwood Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2013 "Post Linear" Gallery Shoal Creek, Austin, Texas
2019 Group Show-Lincoln Center, Fort Collins, CO
2008 "New Expressionism" Merrill Johnson Gallery
2007 "The American River" Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro, VT
2005 Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art, Fort Collins, CO
2005 Allied Artists of America Show, New York, NY
Awards
2016 Best of Show Bold Brush Painting Competition
2015 Bold Brush Award
2001 Stamford Art Association Award - Stanley & Vivian Reed Marine Art Show, Stamford CT
2001 National Works on Paper Show, Houston, TX
Publications
American Art Collector - May 2015
Then and Now - Southwest Art Magazine, Dec. 2009
Collector's Choice - Southwest Art Magazine, Nov. 2008
Simply Stated - American Art Collector, Aug. 28, 2008
Dramatic Landscapes - Artbook, May 2005
Colorado: Best of the West - Southwest Art, Nov. 2004
Regional Expressions of America - Wildlife Art, May 2004
Colorado-Best of the West - Southwest Art, Apr. 2004
Entering the Zone - Focus Magazine, Aug. 2003
Lyrical Creations - Southwest Art, Apr. 2003
21 Under 31 Emerging Artist Issue - Southwest Art, Sep. 2002
