Sigrid Sandstrom

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Sigrid Sandström makes large-scale abstract paintings that hold landscape as their underlying subject while pressing toward geometric fragmentation. Her process is deliberately varied and physical, deploying cloths, rugs, masking tape, squeegees, smearing, and collage to build surfaces where color and scale shift against one another. Artforum critic Naomi Fry observed that her paintings teeter on the verge of abstraction, the tension between naturalism and fragmentation forming the work's central pressure. Her practice extends to film, video, sculpture, and installation, with a 2005 exhibition at the Mills College Art Museum marking a significant early presentation of her moving-image work. She holds a professorship in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki.

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