Isca Greenfield-Sanders (born 1978) is an American landscape painter based in New York City.

Early life

Greenfield-Sanders was born in

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to lawyer, Karin and photographer,

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders Timothy Greenfield-Sanders (born February 16, 1952) is an American documentary filmmaker and portrait photographer based in New York City. The majority of his work is shot in large format. Early life Greenfield-Sanders was born on February 16, ...

. She grew up in New York City's East Village surrounded by artists, her paternal grandmother is concert pianist and teacher Ruth W. Greenfield, her maternal grandmother is Leider singer, Isca Sanders, her maternal grandfather is painter

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, her sister is filmmaker, Liliana Greenfield-Sanders. In 2000 she received a B.A. in math and a B.A. with honors in visual arts from Brown University. She was a visiting artist at the

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in 2001. In 2003 she married artist Sebastian Blanck, with family friend Lou Reed officiating the wedding.

Career

Greenfield-Sanders is known for her mixed media oil paintings and watercolors based on found photography. Her work is in the public collections of the

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in New York City,

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in Brooklyn, NY,

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, The Museum Morsbroich in

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Germany and the

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in London. Her print work with

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started in 2006 and includes over 20 etchings. In 2003 she created a project room at MOMA PS1. In 2005

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commissioned her to make a large scale billboard in Coney Island as a part of the Dreamland Artists Club. In 2016 Greenfield-Sanders partnered with the

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to create four large outdoor murals for the

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for a playground in downtown New York City.

References

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