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Represented by Agora Gallery, Sandy Frazier is a New
York-based multimedia Expressionist who creates art with qualities of
mysticism and allegory. "I found
in the great mystic artists a treasure trove of inspiration, which fuels my
art as well as my music," she refers to the subject of her book, The Mystic Artist. "I sometimes feel as though I am
'painting music,'" (an ongoing theme in much of Sandy's art). She applies colour much like the Fauves and
Gauguin, multimedia and collage in the manner of Picasso, and envisions from
a subliminal source emblematic representations of her own life and the world
in which she lives.
In November 1996,
she had her first Manhattan opening at Robert's Restaurant, a trendy
jazz club in the Broadway district (Hell's Kitchen), where she was very
successful selling many of her works to the theatre and performance
community. Sandy's many paintings and
drawings include her Silent Stills and Surrealistic Spirit
series. She has exhibited in Chicago, IL; Charleston, SC; New York; and Long
Island. She was featured in Charleston's largest gallery, as well as showing
her art in several places on Charleston's main street. Represented by Agora Gallery in New York City, she
opened with her first Soho show in March 1998, at 560 Broadway, #502, Soho,
New York. Sandy was proud and
honored to have been selected to be featured in NY arts magazine's [New
York's guide for Exhibits, Reviews, Maps, Openings, (March '98), which is
distributed to all the galleries in New York City] and Sandy was listed in New
York's famous Gallery Guide. She was also featured in ARTSPEAK Magazine
(March/April, 1998). Her painting, Vincent's Music,
was chosen to represent Agora Gallery's new talents. The piece that was
featured in NY arts magazine is Sandy's original oil painting - "I Intended to Play"
A published author,
Sandy writes on art and has had articles and excerpts from her books
published. She has also published and
displayed over 150 original works of art on her Web site since 1997 and has
exhibited in online shows at sites from around the world. Sandy's still-life acrylic painting, 2 Green Pears
was chosen to grace the cover of grade school art textbooks
throughout the country (Publisher: Harcourt School Publishers). The book features a 3/4-page detail of the painting
on the front and the entire painting reproduced on the back cover. Printrun
began at 40,000-80,000. Sandy's painting was chosen from many
hundreds of submissions.
Sandy's Pope
painting/collage will be published as an illustration in a high school religion
textbook: "Morality: An Invitation to Christian living" by Joseph
Stoutzenberger. (It illustrates the Pope with the weight of the world upon
his shoulders.)
Silents Sandy's early
education in art came from an unusual source - silent films. "Painting stills from silent films
gave me much of my education in art." Interpreting those
dramatic photographs, rich with the shadows and lighting that depicted early
Americana, she quickly became a value painter, and began creating
impressionistic watercolours. (See her Silent Still
series.) Letting Picasso Free Me to Take Risks The Mystery of
Picasso, a '50s documentary, was the
inspiration Sandy needed to liberate herself in order to become the artist
she'd always wanted to be. It was almost literally a day in the life of
Picasso - the camera watching him paint, draw and create through a
transparent screen that makes the viewer feel as if he or she is
participating in the actual creation of his works. In one scene, Picasso
stated something about the "surprising truth at the bottom of the
well," which stuck with Sandy and she was able to build on that concept
to create her "Surrealistic Spirit" series of paintings and
drawings. "Suddenly, I felt as though I'd
been liberated artistically. No more would I have to be just a copyist
or a value painter. I could be the colourist I'd always wanted
to be and free to express that which my soul contained. Picasso's given me a
new lease on life! To find a way to liberate myself
artistically... simply because by getting into the mind of someone like
Picasso who never feared risk-taking, being able to clear the conduit that
leads from the imagination through the artist's body and out into the hands,
without the obstruction caused by fear, hesitancy, the thought process and me
always being my own worst enemy... THE FLOW is the result... and it's like
water. Like Picasso, I feel I've been 'out to
assume the powers of other artists, to assimilate them into (my) own
voracious psyche.'" Painting Music "Painting Music
is the theme of my life's work. I've
written lots of songs about art and created lots of art about music."
[Detail of "Outside Looking In"] Like the Fauves, I Can Never "Escape His Violent Wake"
"Van Gogh
helped him [Picasso] to unlearn all accepted notions of artistic decorum and
pour his heart and guts, spleen and libido onto canvas... set out to make
angst palpable in paint..." - John Richardson "...I wish to
paint the artist's struggle against nature, the creative effort in the work
of art, effort of blood and tears to give one's flesh, to create life: always
wrestling with the truth and always beaten, the battle with the angel. ...
tormented by his inability to give birth to his own genius..."
Sandy Frazier is a mixed-media Expressionist whose art
encapsulates qualities of mysticism and allegory. Working with color in the
manner of the Fauves and of Gauguin, and with mixed-media and collage in the
manner of Picasso, she envisions from a subliminal source emblematic
representations of her own life and the world in which she lives. With joyous color and striking form, Sandy Frazier's artworks create a
dynamic vision of a world both everyday and transcendent. Working with
acrylic and mixed media, Frazier’s bold Expressionist style is unique, an
alluring combination of intense hues, layered patterns, subtle textures and
strong lines. Her handling of color is superb, taking unusual shades and
placing them next to each other in a taut harmony that seems almost to
vibrate with energy from the painting’s surface. The strong stylized lines
that define her subjects are influenced by Picasso, but Frazier makes them
her own, giving them fluidity. The result is a stunning combination of
technical skill and artistic interpretation. [more...] - AGORA GALLERY, Soho, New York [2010] "SANDY FRAZIER -
a painter, a musician and a writer. Sandy Frazier believes all art to be a
universal language and explores many pathways of expression. This spirit of
diversity is evident in every aspect of her work; in painting and drawing she
employs watercolor, gouache, acrylics, oil, colored pencils, marker, etc. to
achieve several artistic goals. Growing up in Chicago and being largely
self-taught, Frazier developed her skills by modeling her art in the
footsteps of the masters like Matisse, Picasso and van Gogh, and, by
following the examples left by their art, she developed her own style. As a
result, her own artistic voice is embedded among traces of several artistic
traditions such as the Surrealists, the Fauvists, the Expressionists. Though
the range of her pieces is diverse, heavy lines in oil or charcoal and very
selective color schemes tend to dictate the moods of her work. Much of her
education and inspiration for these kinds of paintings has come from watching
silent films where the genre's depth of frame and unique lighting created a
distinctive aesthetic mostly abandoned by modern cinema. By manipulating the
number and locations of vanishing points within her work, Frazier achieves a
variety of effects including increasing her works' depth and widening the scope
of possibility with the picture. In each of these pieces, the multiple
spatial planes allow Frazier to develop a playground where each work becomes
a self-contained, extended story. Frazier's story is in constant development
as well; always testing and expanding her own limits and the extent to which
art is interdisciplinary, she has moved her attention to exhibiting her art
on the Internet where she has converged her talents as The Mystic Artist
On-Line. - AGORA GALLERY,
Soho, New York "In/Out Scapes"
features... artists whose work exemplifies the title: Sandy Frazier, a
painter, musician, and writer, creates works in several media that explore
space in a particularly original manner through the layering of multiple
planes and subtle color modulations that resonate like a lilting mental
music..." - ARTSPEAK, New
York "Her own artistic voice is embedded among
traces of several artistic traditions such as the Surrealists, the Fauvists,
the Expressionists." - KunstUnikate.de
(Art Gallery in Germany) Sandy Frazier (born
in Motown USA) was raised in Chicago and lived in Austin, Texas for a while
where she ran her own musicians rehearsal studio. Sandy's move to NY in 1991
would prove to be the cornerstone in her career and would finalize her as an
artist/musician/writer. Her love for writing music has spawned 100's of songs
over the years. Mystic-Art is a creative forum bringing Sandy's collective
works together in artistic expression. She spent her entire life painting,
writing music, performing drawing, writing poetry and books..."It's a
dream come true that the opportunity of the Web is there for me to showcase
all these things that have been so meaningful in my life." Mystic-Art is
mainly about Sandy's art, music and writing; but she hopes to create a forum
for other artists to showcase their work, as well as a source for information
on helping victims of domestic violence. The sky's the limit! She has written
a book called The Mystic
Artist and another The Art of Silence. - Cezanne Huq, VirtualUrth - www.virtualurth.com "You are such a
multi-talented person and have accomplished so much yourself. Your painting was
chosen from hundreds and hundreds of submissions to be among the very few
finalists! The work is so beautiful." - Tobi Zausner, Art Historian/Artist
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