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2021July and August, 2021 The residency ran for three weeks, and was commemorating the 75th anniversary of the school. The Skowhegan School of Painting and Drawing is an esteemed art school in Skowhegan, Maine During the residency Walker focused on ink drawings inspired by the landscape and recent themes. Walker also gave a talk on his art career, a transcript of which is on the “Statements” page. |
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 July, 2021Following the completion of carving two large woodblock diptychs, Sandy Walker traveled to St. Louis, MO to print them with Pele Prints. Master printer Amanda Verbeck did an exceptional job with the two works, entitled “Many” and “Rima II” Walker is looking forward to continuing his large woodblock prints and collaborating further with Verbeck. Both the finished prints can be seen on the Woodblock page. |
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 March, 2021Following the virtual show last year, Sandy Walker is again showing at the SHOH Gallery. “Our Time” runs from March 4th to March 27th, 2021. The SHOH Gallery is located at 700 Gilman St, Berkeley, CA 94710 The Gallery is open for in person viewing. The opening is being presented online, and features a pannel discussion of Walker’s art. Recorded virtual opening: “Adolescence”, Oil on Canvas, 80″ X 60″, 2013 |
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2020April, 2020 The show runs from April 22nd to May 10th, 2020. The SHOH Gallery is located at 700 Gilman St, Berkeley, CA 94710 Due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, this show has been moved to an online only show, presenting one piece each day for the duration of the show. “His Story 101″, Oil on Canvas, 80″ X 60”, 2019 |
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 January, 2020Sandy Walker is currently in a group show at the Davis Art Center. He showing his piece “Birth Image” from 1992 The show runs from January 9th to 24th, 2020. The Davis art Center is located at 1919 F St, Davis, CA 95616 “Birth Image”, Woodblock Print, 49″ X 41″, 1992 |
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2019June, 2019 The show is open until September 28th, 2019. The IPCNY is located at 508 West 26th Street, 5A “Dark Forest (Blue)”, Woodblock Print, 24.5″ X 17″, 2018 |
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 June, 2019Join us at the Compound Gallery for “Bay Area Prints!” for an exhibition of prints from Bay Area artists, including Sandy Walker Reception June 8th, 6-9 “Holy Weed”, Woodblock Print, 25″ X 12″, 2018 |
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 February, 2019Sandy Walker’s was selected for a juried show at the Janet Turner Print Museum “Regional Collective: California Society of Printmakers” opens March 11th Reception March 28th, with remarks from juror Leslie Jones, Curator of Prints and Drawings, Los Angeles County Museum of Art “Stehekin Forest” Woodblock Print, 60″ X 24″, 2017 Janet Turner Print Museum, 400 West 1st Street, Chico, CA 95929 |
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 February, 2019Sandy Walker is showing work at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts in the show “NOT JUST Landscapes” Reception February 22nd, 6-7:30 “Forest Rhapsody” Woodblock Print, 48″ X 36″, 2017 |
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| February, 2019 Sandy Walker’s was selected for a juried show at the Janet Turner Print Museum “Regional Collective: California Society of Printmakers” opens March 11th Reception March 28th, with remarks from juror Leslie Jones, Curator of Prints and Drawings, Los Angeles County Museum of Art “Stehekin Forest” Woodblock Print, 60″ X 24″, 2017 Janet Turner Print Museum, 400 West 1st Street, Chico, CA 95929 |
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2018November, 2018 The woodcuts accepted include: Green Mansions, 1993 Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, 2155 Center St, Berkeley, CA 94720 |
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 August 23 to October 18, 2018Sandy Walker has been selected for a show at Hacket Mill Gallery, in San Francisco. “NYSS: West Coast Connections”, curated by Karen Wilkin, is a showcase of Alumni of the New York Studio School. “What was also apparent is that whether they were working figuratively or abstractly, from perception or inventing, whether in two or three dimensions, no matter what the medium, everyone seemed to be intensely serious…Everyone seemed to be seeking to elicit the maximum amount of expressiveness from their chosen medium and to exploit its special characteristics.” -Karen Wilkin Opening Reception September 6th at 7 PM Hacket Mill Gallery | 145 Natoma St, Suite 400 | San Francisco, CA |
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 September 8 to September 23, 2018Walker has also been selected for the juried show “ClimART”, at the Academy of Art Cannery Galleries. He will be showing his piece “Doug Fir Portrait”. Sandy Walker has also shown in multiple group shows this summer. Walker showed his recent woodblock print “River” at the Liberty Arts Center in Yreka, CA. He was also selected for a California Society of Printmakers’ show at the Kings Art Center. Opening Reception of “ClimART” is September 13th at 6 PM Academy of Art Cannery Gallery | 2801 Leavenworth St | San Francisco, CA |
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 June 12 to August 16, 2018Sandy Walker was selected as a Spotlight Artist for the Annual Members Show at the Richmond Art Center. Walker will be showing three of his large oil paintings. Opening reception June 9th, 5-7pm Richmond Art Center | 2540 Barrett Ave | Richmond, CA 94804 |
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| December 2016 Sandy’s woodblock prints were published twice in Art In Print for their “Prix de Print” series. The prints selected were “my moon” (2017) and “Forest Rhapsody” (2017) |
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2017June 13 to August 19, 2017 Opening reception June 10th, 5-7pm Richmond Art Center | 2540 Barrett Ave | Richmond, CA 94804 |
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 May – June, 2017Sandy’s work will be included in two upcoming auctions at the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, CA. Small Prints 17 #2, a woodblock print on paper with hand-applied India ink, will be included in Big Names, Small Art on May 18th. Wabi Sabi I, also a woodblock print, will be included in the annual Art Auction on June 3rd. Crocker Art Museum | 216 O Street | Sacramento, CA 95814 |
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 April 2017Sandy has published three large woodblock prints in editions of 10. All three editions were printed by hand at Sandy’s studio in Oakland, CA.
Doug Fir Portrait, 65.25 x 29 inches, 2017 (pictured) |
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2016December 2016 |
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 March – April, 2016“At that moment the veil of the temple was rent from top to bottom.” Sandy’s oil painting (90 x 68″) is placed above the altar of the Plymouth Church (the Church of Jazz and Social Justice) in Oakland, CA, for the Lenten Season. Plymouth United Church of Christ | 424 Monte Vista Ave | Oakland CA 94611 |
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 January 10, 2016Piri Halasz reviewed Sandy’s show Stehekin Poems at Elizabeth Harris Gallery, saying: It is as though the artist wanted to create an image with a double level of meaning: on the one hand, it is a macrocosmic branch or even a whole tree, but at the same time it is a microcosm of the needles on that tree… All [the pictures] are equally interesting on this intellectual level. …when they’re good, they’re very very good. |
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 January 7 to February 13, 2016In early 2016, Elizabeth Harris Gallery will exhibit a selection of Sandy’s oil crayon and graphite drawings in Stehekin Poems, a solo show. All the works in the show are in color and were made during the summer of 2014 in Stehekin, WA. Opening Thursday January 7th, 6-8pm Elizabeth Harris Gallery | 529 West 20th Street | New York NY 10011 |
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2015October 2015 In 1978 Sandy spent 10 weeks in the park, living and working out of his pickup truck in NPS and National Forest campgrounds. The chapter “Contemporary Painters – An Alternative View: 1975-2015” includes a description of his time there, as well as two quotes from the artist. In a chapter featuring Sandy’s work, Donna Poulton writes: |
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 August 7 to September 25, 2015Sandy’s drawing The Last Tree will be shown in the New York Studio School 2015 Alumni Exhibition, a juried show. Opening Friday August 7th, 6-8pm New York Studio School | 8 West 8th Street | New York NY 10011 |
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 April 24, 2015Sandy attended an artist’s preview and gala at the Whitney Museum, celebrating its reopening at a new location. Artists represented in the collection were invited to spend the afternoon viewing the current exhibition America is Hard to See and exploring the building itself. >>See more images of the new Whitney |
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2014October 25, 2014 Kim Vanderheiden of Painted Tongue Press wrote a blog post describing the prints and the printing process. |
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 September 11 to October 26, 2014Join us at the opening of Sandy’s upcoming solo show, Sandy Walker: Figures and Landscapes, a retrospective featuring small works from 1974-2014. Curated by Gary Comoglio, this show will feature oil paintings and woodblock prints spanning the breadth of Sandy’s career. First Friday Art Walk – Friday September 12th, 6-9pm Artist’s reception – Saturday September 13th, 2-5pm Gary Francis Fine Art | 1419 e Park Street | Alameda CA 94501 >>See an excerpt of images to be featured in the show at Gary Francis Fine Art |
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 September 9 to December 5, 2014Sandy’s large woodblock print, Inwood I, will be featured in an exhibition organized by International Print Center New York that will be presented in the 1285 Gallery, in midtown Manhattan. 1285 Avenue of the Americas Gallery 1285 Sixth Street | New York NY 10019 |
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 Sandy on FacebookVisit Sandy’s professional Facebook page, Sandy Walker Studio, and “like” it for frequent updates, images of new work and info about upcoming shows. |
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 July 10 to August 3, 2014Gary Francis Fine Art’s upcoming exhibition, Redefining The Multiplewill include Sandy’s prints Atwood’s Pond and Midsummer’s Night. Opening Friday July 11th, 6-9pm. |
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 June 14 to August 22, 2014The Richmond Art Center’s Annual Members Show will include Sandy’s painting Our Mountains’ Color. Opening Saturday June 14th, 5-7pm. |
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 April 19th to July 11th, 2014Sandy’s print Figures I was selected to participate in a juried show, 8th Annual California Centered: Printmaking, at the Merced Multicultural Arts Center. >>Merced County Arts Council |
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 April 17th to April 25th, 2014Sandy’s untitled colored pencil drawing will show at the KALA 40 Art Auction and Anniversary Gala. Preview Party: Thursday, April 17th Auction Gala: Saturday, April 26th Kala Art Institute | 2990 San Pablo Avenue | Berkeley CA 94702 |
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 April 2014The Library of Congress has acquired Sandy’s print Regarding Mountain/Sky (1996), a set of ten hand-carved and hand-printed woodblock prints in an archival box. This print is also available for sale at the Annex Galleries in Santa Rosa, CA. >>See more images of this print at the Annex Galleries website |
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 March 22nd to May 30th, 2014Sandy’s work will be featured in The Breakfast Group: A Half Century of Java and Jive, a group exhibition at the Richmond Art Center. Opening event Saturday, March 22nd, 2014. Richmond Art Center | 2540 Barrett Avenue | Richmond, CA 94804 |
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 March 20th to May 27th, 2014Sandy donated a graphite drawing to participate in Greenup Time: Artist Auction to Help Save Meridian Gallery, an event organized to support Meridian in a moment of financial difficulty. With the support of many artists, donors, and Meridian Gallery fans, the auction was a success, and Sandy’s drawing found a wonderful new home. >>Read more about Meridian Gallery in the SF Chronicle |
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 March 6th to April 27th, 2014Two oil paintings and one large woodblock print were selected to participate in a group show, The Figure: A Bay Area Legacy. Gary Francis Fine Art | 1419 e Park Street | Alameda CA 94501 |
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2013December 5th to December 21st, 2013 |
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 November 7th, 2013Sandy’s woodblock matrix for Humans Being 3 will be exhibited as an artwork in itself, alongside the print that was pulled from it, at the San Francisco Center for the Book in 100 Years in Print: California Society of Printmakers Centennial Celebration, an event exploring the many ways that participating artists push the boundaries of various printmaking media. >>SFCB Event Information |
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 November 1st to December 15th, 2013Sandy’s painting Etude 7 will be included in The Breakfast Group: A Half Century of Java and Jive, a group show at the Carl Cherry Center for the Arts in Carmel, CA. “Starting in the ’60’s a group of artists teaching at UC Berkeley began meeting every week for coffee, camaraderie, and art talk. Over the years members, menus, and mantras have changed, but the spirit remains strong.” Opening reception Friday November 1st, 5-7 pm. |
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 October 21, 2013 to January 10, 2014Sandy’s woodblock print Cottonwood Essence will be exhibited at the Commonwealth Club of California, in a group show entitled Ten Decades: California Society of Printmakers 100 Years, celebrating the centennial anniversary of the CSP. >>California Society of Printmakers |
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 September 2 to September 27, 2013Sandy participated in a Fall 2013 residency at the Ucross Foundation on Ucross Ranch in Clearmont, Wyoming. >>Ucross Foundation |
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 June 29, 2013PPP, a Bay Area dance performance series, invited Ellen Webb and Sandy Walker to discuss and present video of their long term dance collaboration in the Bay Area at The Subterranean Arthouse in downtown Berkeley. PPP is produced by SALTA, a collective of dancers in Oakland. >>Excerpts of dance collaborations with Sandy Walker and Ellen Webb |
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 March 5, 2013Read David Cohen’s review of Sandy’s recent show In Nature >> Art Critical |
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 February 7 to March 9, 2013Sandy Walker exhibits new oil paintings for In Nature, a solo show at Elizabeth Harris Gallery 529 West 20th Street #6E, New York, NY. >> Elizabeth Harris Gallery |
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 February 1, 2013The Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, CA has acquired Regarding Mountain/Sky and Head I for its permanent collection. >> Crocker Art Museum |
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 February 1 to March 9, 2013A distinguished jury selected Sandy Walker’s print Inwood II for New Prints 2012/Autumn which ran from October 20 to November 17, 2012 at the International Print Center New York. This show travels to the University of Texas at Austin and will be on view February 1 to March 9, 2013. |
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2012October 4 to November 24, 2012 |
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 May 11 to June 10, 2012Sandy Walker shows work in the CSP/RSP Exchange England exhibit at Bankside Gallery in London. >> Bankside Gallery |
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 May 2012Sandy Walker publishes eight new woodblock editions at Kala Art Institute with Wendyn Cadden: Figures I, Figures II, Figures III, Atwood’s Pond, Inwood I, Inwood II, and Spirit/Matter. >> Kala Art Institute |
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| April 18 to June 9, 2012 Sandy Walker exhibits Inwood II in California Centered: Printmaking 2012 at the Merced Multicultural Arts Center. >> Merced Multicultural Arts Center |
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 April 17, 2012Sandy gives a talk at the reception for his show Concerning the Forest: The Work of Sandy Walker at the Yale School of Forestry. >> Yale School of Forestry |
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2011August 12 to September 7, 2011 |
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 June 30 to September 6, 2011In the Presence of Trees Exhibition Sandy exhibits two drawings with the UCross Foundation Art Gallery. >> UCross Foundation Art Gallery |
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 May 21 to July 30, 2011Sandy shows a new version of Screen for the first time in the Bay Area. In Extremis: Prints Monumental, Intimate, and Encompassing at Meridian Gallery. >> Meridian Gallery |
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 September 2010 to May 2011Spring blossoming Tree and the Forest Suite were exhibited at the American Embassy in India from September 2010 to May 2011 under the Art in Embassies Program. Spring Blossom Tree, oil on canvas, 94 x 120 (diptych), 1980 |
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 March 2-5, 2011Sandy Walker’s work was featured at the annual Gala at the Knoxville Museum of Art. Stehekin Quartet, oil on canvas, each panel 30 x 16, 2010 |
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2010February 23 to April 30, 2010 |
2009November 5, 2009 |
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 September 12 to November 7, 2009Concerning the Forest: The Work of Sandy Walker a one person show curated by Theres Rohan and accompanied by a catalogue including an essay by David Cohen. The catalogue is available for $15 from the gallery at info@meridiangallery.org Meridian Gallery |
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 July 25 to September 20, 2009California in Relief: A History in Wood and Linocut Printsincludes Sandy Walker’s woodblock print “Wyoming” Saint Mary’s College of California |
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 June 1 to September 5, 2009Sandy Walker takes part in Diminuendo & Crescendo: Smallworks Exhibition at the San Francisco studio school. 30 Hotaling Place, |
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 May 28th to August 1, 2009Sandy Walker exhibits painting “Earth’s Back” at the New York Studio School 8 West 8th Street |
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 June 20th to July 18, 2009The Artists of ZYZZYVA exhibitiion includes a drawing by Sandy Walker. Mina Dresden Gallery |
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 July 2009Five Ink Drawings by Sandy Walker accompany an article in the July edition of Harpers Magazine on torture New Evidence from Guantanamo (page 49). |
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| February 2009 Sandy Walker writes an obituary for master printmaker Sheila Marbain. |
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2008Nov 6, 2008 to January 29, 2009 The San Francisco Studio School, |
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 May 22 to September 26, 2008Large drawings by Sandy Walker are included in Sight & Sensibility a 3 person show at SFSS. The San Francisco Studio School, |
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 September 2008Sandy Walker and Autumn Press produce poster “The Bush Legacy” to be distributed throughout the coming year. The poster is free, please contact Sandy to recieve one for shipping costs only. >> caprintmakers.org/pdf/Newsbrief/fall2008.pdf page 10 for article |
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| June 2008 Sandy Walker’s painting ‘Moran Sunset’ is part of group show ‘Art in the Embassies’ at the America Embassy in Greece. |
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 April 2008Sandy Walker contributes “Yet if they fail to express”, a woodblock print on Kochi White paper to the California Society of Printmakers. Carved by Sandy out of maple plywood, it was printed by Kim Vanderheim at the Painted Tougue studio in an edition of 20. >> caprintmakers.org |
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2007January 6 – February 18, 2007 Triton Museum of Art, 1505 Warburton Avenue, Santa Clara, CA |
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 January 23 – March 16, 2007Screen prints “12 – 2” and “A – 1” by Sandy Walker are included in the Printmakers Bay Area show at the the Richmond Art Center Community Gallery. Richmond Art Center, 2540 Barrett Ave, Richmond, CA 94804. |
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2006December 5 – 31, 2006 147 Wooster St. NYC, NY. tel: 212-777-6338. |
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 October 2006 – Summer 2007Sandy Walker exhibits 3 large paintings as part of Nine at Gaia, a group show at the Gaia Arts Center, Berkeley. Gaia Arts Center, 2120 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA |
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 May 25 – June 16, 2006Sandy Walker’s painting ‘2 men’ is included in the NYSS Alumni exhibition at the Painting Center, 52 Greene St, New York, NYC 10013 |
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 February 20 – March 10 2006Sandy Walker’s woodblock print ‘Judth Suite II’ is included in From Postwar to Postmodernism ‘an Archive and Exhibition’ showcasing three decades of Columbia Visual Artists. LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Dodge hall, 2960 Broadway (at 116th Street), New York. For more information please contact Garth Graeper (212) 854 3412. |
2005November 3, 2005 |
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 September 8 to October 13, 2005Hendrix College presents The Quickening Body, large works on paper by Sandy Walker at the Trieschmann Art Gallery, 1600 Washington Avenue, Conway, Arkansas.
For more information contact Professor Maxine Payne (501) 450-4587 payne@hendrix.edu |
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| June through December 2005 The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, will show two prints by Sandy Walker as part of it’s anniversary exhibition Celebrating 20 Years. |
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 March to April 2005 Lenten Meditations – an exhibition of paintings by Sandy Walker for a 1978 Lenten exhibit at St. John the Divine in New York City, shown at First Congregational Church of Berkeley as Stations of the Cross.
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| December 2004 to January 2005 Wooster Arts Space shows three black and white works on paper by Sandy Walker in a group show. 147 Wooster Street New York, NY 212-777-6338 |
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2004November 15 to December 15, 2004 |
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| January 24 to February 7, 2004 Sandy Walker participates in residence at Red Cinder Creativity Center, on the Big Island of Hawaii http://www.redcinder.org/ |
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| January 22, 2004 New York Sun Review of the Wooster Arts Space show, written by David Cohen. Reprinted online at artcritical.com |
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 January 15 to February 14, 2004 One man exhibit at the Wooster Arts Space, a beautiful gallery in SoHo. 147 Wooster St. NY, NY. tel: 212-777-6338. Opening Reception: January 15 6-8pm. |
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2003June 2003 |
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 April 10 to June 13, 2003 American Visions: the Paintings of Sandy Walker An exhibition of large scale paintings from the last thirty years was exhibited at the Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas.
A sixty-four page book of color plates accompanying the exhibit is available from the museum. To order or for more information call 316-978-3898, or visit Ulrich Museum of Art website for online contact information. |
| February 13 to March 29, 2003 Sandy Walker exhibited four woodblock prints at the Kala Art Institute Gallery in Cuts: The Contemporary Woodcut. This exhibition offered an in-depth view of how artists continue to reinvent this centuries-old technique. Artists from around the world were represented, including William Wiley, Karen Kunc, Harry Clewens, and Barbara Foster. |
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| January 2003 The Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick, Maine, added the Judith Suite to its permanent collection. |
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September 20, 2002 to January 4, 2003
Regarding Mountain/Sky, a portfolio of ten prints in the collection of the New York Public Library, was exhibited In “A Legacy in Landscapes,” a group show in the print galleries of the library. The exhibit also included work by Markus Raetz, Alex Katz, and Peter Doig.
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September 3 to November 2, 2002
The Judith Suite, a set of five woodblock prints, premiered at the Caffe 817 Gallery. The prints are the culmination of over a year of work Sandy Walker did with the artists’ model Judith Sims, a local actress and dancer.
March 1, 2002
Sandy Walker’s work “Untitled” (2001, graphite on paper, 38″ x 25.5″) recently appeared in the Spring 2002 issue of the magazine Inquiring Mind, a semiannual journal of the Vipassana community. The issue is devoted to “Revealing the Vision: Art & Dharma”.
Sandy’s work appears as an illustration accompanying an article “Zen and Improvisational Dance,” by dancer and choreographer, Ellen Webb. This is the latest in a long history of collaboration between the husband and wife, including Mountain, Tree, Water, which won an Isadora Duncan Dance Award in 1989.
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October 1, 2001
This poster was created as a memorial to the tragic losses in New York City on September 11. In the early 80’s, I lived in the shadow of the World Trade Center and made many drawings there. Before that, I lived on 8th Avenue, where I looked down the avenue from my window to the two towers that I always referred to as the twin peaks.
The poster is being distributed free of charge, and I am leaving stacks in various locations. Anyone with an interest in obtaining a copy may contact me by e-mail. If I ship it, I will ask to be remibursed for the shipping costs.
Life is a confluence of integration and disintegration. My work is an effort to capture a brief moment of balance in the constant shifting of our lives and consciousness.
For a moment we embraced the towers. Now they are gone.
Sandy Walker