Train Graffiti series, Sandy Sanders, "Alchemy" (small) 19" x 5" mixed media, $325
A totally unique, one-of-kind artwork. I may make similar versions for patrons or exhibition but any other versions will be different and include new content and compositional elements, even color. So each of these works are unique. My archival prints that are a part of these works are made using Epson 7600 ultrachrome inks, then varnished for 100+ year display integrity. If kept out of direct sunlight/UV they will last many times longer. The works use reused laminated and acrylic primed cardboard or new tri-wall board. Vegetable starch binders make corrugated cardboard a very archival support medium I have been successfully using since the 1970's.
Giclee art print collage and acrylic, tri-wall upcycled primed cardboard, ready to hang. See pix and video. Contact me with any questions. Pick up or delivery available within 25 mile radius around Eugene, OR.
Shown at New Zone Gallery June-Aug 2024. For more pix of my work visit my website... sandys.art.
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Train Graffiti Artist StatementThe railroad is an integral part of daily life in the Eugene/Springfield Area. I along with many others share a fascination and love of passenger and freight trains in the Pacific Northwest. My personal passion extends to train graffiti as a popular visual art medium. Some good, some bad, some begginer, some professional and some really cool!
Train graffiti is a melding of multiple layers of activity. Street artists painting on the trains and on top of other artists works, train staff reapplying train markings, signage and stickers.Then hobo graffiti artist's small drawings, all combine with the wear & tear of weathering time on train and graffiti. As artist in these works, I act as documentarian of the above, then add my own layers of visual interest. Shaping and reconfiguring close-up view constructions, adding my own "tags", painting and drawing iagery to this new artwork in a variety of forms and views. The project combines digital photography, painting, drawing and relief constructions, often re-utilizing recycled, upcycled cardboard supports.
Send me any questions you may have or requests for closeups or technical info. For additional pix of my work...
https:/sandys.art
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About the Artist
Sandy Sanders (AKA Marshall Sanders) (b.1951). Sandy
was born and raised in San Francisco, CA. BFA @ Art Center College of
Design 1975. MFA @ Otis Art Institute 1979. He exhibited multi-media
installation works consistently from 1979 thru 1983. He is a
multi-disciplinary, multi media artist that made living as a graphic
artist for 41+ years while producing largely non-commercial, conceptual
visual art projects, in the fine art realm.
His fine art practice focuses on holistic art experiences that only art an installation environment can provide.
His first installation series presented simulations of excavated pieces
of street pavement as abstract compositional objects presented as art
objects in a gallery environment. Some pieces on the floor, some leaning
against the wall, later hanging on the wall. Included in these street
installations were: fantasy hand-colored b&w documentary
photograph-compositions; found objects from the street; mixed media
& 3d assemblages & collections of visual objects documenting
& tinkering with the perceptions of our urban streets as a play
field of social activity, a vehicle of urban interconnectedness.
In the late 70's and early 80's, Sandy produced a number of artist's books.
Small edition, handmade, book art forms that were able to merge visual
and verbal art forms into unique experiences. These were shown at then
existing artist's book stores in the Los Angeles and SF Bay Areas as
well as at NYC's Franklin Furnace. A few are in the collections of
Chicago Art Institute Library, Tweed Museum, Minnesota, and the Museum
of Contemporary Art Library, Chicago.
In the 1980's, each day for a one year period, he acrylic painted one small 7" x 5" seascape canvas.
He wanted to see the daily flow of personal emotion and feeling as was
expressed through this daily painting discipline, then juxtapose the
canvasses, in dated sequence, in gallery exhibit. One form of
presentation was a straight line of touching canvasses wrapping around
the gallery room walls, bringing a 365 day long, multi-colored horizon
line, inside. Another presentation included Spring and Fall grids. Two large rectangular grids
of 15 rows of 7 canvas-day weeks, flush mounted next to one another. A
variety of other configurations were experimented with and documented.
In the 1990's, while experimenting with Photoshop as an early adopter of PC graphics systems,
Sandy discovered possibilities with digital brush strokes,
unfortunately limited by processors and overall speed of PCs at the
time. Experimental works continued incrementally for two decades until
PC's were able to accommodate the needs of the project, which now
include the ability to produce 54" maximum smallest side canvas prints. This series is called the Wired series.
In 1995, he produced a series of digital collages examining advertising imagery and intents. These detournement artworks he called De-Advertising.
They clearly exposed the subliminal intent of mass media marketing
taken from a period where magazines were still standard purveyors of
existing social norms. Some under-the-radar messages revealed in these
works, have now become what many call the "new normal" in today's
2020's.
Around the year 2000 (and
ongoing), he began devoting significant creative energy and time to
producing social activist posters and detournement arts, responding to
what he experienced as a total sellout of Humanity by the existing
"political" class running the West. He produced over 100 posters used in
numerous protest events across the country and has poster works shown
and collected in the US and Europe. Also at this time, Sandy purchased
his first digital camera, documenting the urban/suburban post-industrial
landscape of America, producing numerous elegant archival photographic
prints. He still carries a digital camera with himself daily.
In 2010, Sandy devised a series of whimsical,
low tech, laid back, painted cardboard assemblages that were to function
as a long term art installation at a Portland coffee shop. It was
designed to work in that specific shop's varied, colored wall lounge
environment to facilitate the pleasure-experience of the ubiquitous
local Portland coffee culture.
His “Capitalism Sucks Art Show”, bitter sweet, humorous installation works since 2013,
question “value” in society. Facing off Ram Board paintings of “things
that are free” vs “things that are definitely not-free" in installations
on the streets of the San Francisco Bay Area (such as the Fort Mason
Art Market Expo 2013) and in New Zone Gallery, Eugene, 2019. All fitting
in a pizza box. The “free” paintings were given away. The expensive
paintings were priced at the average price of the object depicted. Such
as $2 billion for a nuclear power plant.
In 2017, Sandy joined the New Zone Artist Collective in Eugene where he is webmaster, graphics specialist and a former Board Member. At the Gallery, he
and Ralf Huber have teamed up for two social activist art
installations. Two in 2022 and 2023 with another coming in November of
2024, named "Make Art Not War". He also sells Pop Shop Art objects there, like bleached + stenciled t-shirts posters, cards, bookmarks and "Zero" Dollars.
In 2018, he began a continuing series of artworks, The Art of Train Graffiti series,
created from the documentary photos he takes of graffiti'd freight cars
laid up on the railcar tracks in Mapleton, Eugene and elsewhere. He
then adds his own digital and/or painted graffiti contributions on whole
car compositions and free form multi-layered assemblage works, all on
archival primed cardboard supports and constructions. The works present a
potentially long term record of society's freight car graffiti activity
and enable the public close up views not normally possible otherwise.