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Sandra Rowe
Sandra Rowe (born 1940) is a Painting, painter, Sculpture, sculptor, Printmaking, printmaker, and Installation art, installation artist born in Richmond, Indiana, but active mainly in southern California. She is a retired tenured professor of art at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Cal Poly Pomona. Education Rowe earned a B.A. from California State University, Fresno (1977) and an M.F.A. from the University of California, Irvine(1980), both in studio art. Art and Meaning The complexity and psychological and physical human identity and interrelationships- in terms of both the Self and the Self in relation to the Other is central to Sandra Rowe's art. Themes include commercialism , and consumerism; sexuality and self-identity; the paradox and psychology of male/female relationships; and conceptual issues of contemporary art. In a 1993 catalogue essay, M.A. Greenstein says, "As an African American woman, Rowe does not hesitate to expose in her artwork the eerie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes, can be used. In art, the term ''painting ''describes both the act and the result of the action (the final work is called "a painting"). The support for paintings includes such surfaces as walls, paper, canvas, wood, glass, lacquer, pottery, leaf, copper and concrete, and the painting may incorporate multiple other materials, including sand, clay, paper, plaster, gold leaf, and even whole objects. Painting is an important form in the visual arts, bringing in elements such as drawing, composition, gesture (as in gestural painting), narration (as in narrative art), and abstraction (as in abstract art). Paintings can be naturalistic and representational (as in still life and landscape painting), photographic, abstract, nar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
