Sandhi schimmel biography
- Sandy or Sandhi Schimmel Gold is.
- Sandhi Schimmel Gold is a natural born, self-taught artist and musician with perfect pitch.
- As an adult, Sandhi had many careers.
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Sandhi Schimmel Gold
Memoir and Mirrors:
A reflection of four generations of creative women
January 27 - February 18, 2023
Mixed Media Assemblages
About “Memoir and Mirrors”
"Memoir and Mirrors" - is a meditation on the memories, souvenirs and materials collected by multi-generations of women.
The matriarch, Ester Markovics was born on a farm in rural Slovakia. Her daughter, Bessy Markowitz was the artists' mother.
These women survived WWII and as refugees, arrived in New York City in 1949.
Both Ester and Bessy were hired to assemble jewelry for a costume jewelry manufacturer. Bessy went on to work as a silk scarf painter. In time, Bessy became a painter, and a jewelry designer in her own right. Over the years, both women amassed a collection of beads, findings, art supplies, etc. Sandhi Schimmel Gold eventually inherited a massive assortment of miscellaneous items, as both her mother and grandmother found material objects to have monetary value. Each woman, in turn, had difficulty disposing of possessions. The thought of letting go causes a great deal of mela
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THE MEDIA IS THE MEDIUM
THE MEDIA IS THE MESSAGE
"The Wizard of Waste" SANDHI SCHIMMEL GOLD’S MULTI-DISCIPLINARY PRACTICE EXPLORES THE INTERSECTION OF: MASS MEDIA [VIA UNSOLICITED SOLICITATIONS], THE PROCESSES OF UPCYCLING & EXAMINES SOCIAL PERCEPTIONS OF BEAUTY.
An artist's job is to challenge, provoke and immortalize the age they live in, the age of information overload A society where every visage is highly scrutinized, where deep fakes and filters thrive, and intimate moments are publicly shared and brutally judged.
Images enter our psyches through mailboxes, electronic devices, billboards, ads & talking heads.
We’re never far from an over-produced reel, a sales pitch, a come on, a buzz word, an overwrought hash tagged image.
Sandhi’s work is an attempt to create an entirely original, authentic, totally manipulated “picture;” simultaneously celebrating and critiquing a culture obsessed with image, celebrity and consumerism.
GIVING WHAT WOULD BE WASTE A SECOND LIFE.
Upcycling junk ma
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Sandhi Schimmel Gold’s work is a combination of techniques including Painting, Mosaic, Papier Collé and Collage. Every painting is an original that she has created. Every piece of paper is chosen purposely, hand-cut and hand-applied; a junction of paint and paper. Every work is made by recycling junk mail, postcards and other paper ephemera that may have ended up in a landfill. Every work is inspired by something in Sandhi’s life, a dream, an epic poem, a legend, a belief, but mostly, her desire to create a beautiful image to share.
The meaning of the name:
Sandhi Sanskrit: संधि means “junction” or “combination.”
Schimmel German/Dutch: means a white or grey horse, or a gray haired person.
Gold Latin: ‘aurum’ means shining dawn. ‘Golden’ means doing right, “stay gold” means remaining true to yourself.
Sandhi has never NOT been an artist. But, not in the prescribed way. Although she has studied, practiced, perfected, played, dabbled, experimented — all of it has been outside the “regular” art world. Her work is a combinati
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