 |
||||
Artist: Sandy Applegate
Sandy has been a full-time resident of Pagosa Springs, Colorado since 1995. She was born in Wisconsin, raised in Illinois, and attended art school in Chicago. She is currently devoting her time to creating and marketing her artwork, as well as skiing, hiking, reading, and gardening. She studied art in college, spent many years in a variety of careers and past-times, but always created and experimented with art media. With the addition of several workshops with notables such as Pierre Mion, Gary Greene, Vera Curnow, Stephen Quiller, and Sean Dye, she is free to use her “Artistic License” to create whatever reality she dreams of. Starting to draw and “doodle” as a teenager, she always knew she was destined to do things differently. This is evident in one very early photograph of her with her two sisters and brother: the other three stand erect, hands at their sides, facing the camera head-on with nice smiles on their faces. Sandy however has arms akimbo, is turned 45 degrees to the left, eyes closed with a scrunched-up little grin on her face. No wonder that she calls her artwork “Reality With a Twist”. Sandy’s artwork deals with shape, color and ideas: definitely with her own version of reality. She works primarily in acrylic, watercolor, and pen and ink. She often incorporates mixed media to create unusual effects. She likes to have several series of different subject matter in the works at one time, this helps to keep her images and ideas fresh and lively. Her colors are bold, exciting and vibrant. Her images are partly literal, but she incorporates “other-worldly” or abstract elements also. Many pieces contain suggestions of the macrocosmic or microcosmic in them, often using circles or repetition to indicate the on-going cyclic nature of life. She keeps a sense of humor about her, and loves to leave room in her work for the mysterious, the personal interpretation. Sandy Applegate: skapplegate@skywerx.com
Sandy Applegate website: www.SandAppleArt.com
Gallery Representation and Memberships: Wild Spirit Gallery, Pagosa Springs, Colorado Shy Rabbit ArtsNetWork Swirl Wine Emporium, Manitou Springs, Colorado
Awards: Signature Membership in the Colorado Watercolor Society, 2008 Signature Membership in the Southern Colorado Watercolor Society, 2009 April-June, 2008, One-woman show in the Avenue Gallery of the BAC in Manitou Springs, Co., “The Raven” Aug. 2007 Sangre DeCristo Art Center, Pueblo, Co. One-Person Show June 2007 Pagosa Springs Arts Council Juried Painting Show “Time Shadow – That’s Him” First Place May-July 2007 Gateway to Imagination, Farmington , N.M. “Navajo Peak” Special Recognition Award May 2007 Aquarius 2007, S.C.WC.S Pueblo, Co. “Wolf Lake 4”, Second Place March 2007 “Alive With Color” Art Center at Fuller Lodge, Los Alamos, NM. “Market Basket, 5“ Staff award Pagosa Springs Arts Council 2006 Juried Exhibit – 3rd Place May 2005Shy Rabbit Gallery “Fiction to Art” show Pagosa Springs Arts Council 2004 Juried Art Exhibit -2nd Place Art Calendar Magazine, June 2000 - centerfold contest winner
Juried Shows: June 2008 American Juried Art Salon, “Orb 7” June, 2008 PSAC 6th Juried Art Show, “Orb 6” May, 2008 Aquarius 2008, SCWS, Pueblo, Co. Feb. 2008 Western Federation of WC Societies, Tubac, AZ. “Positive Coaching” Oct. 2007 Wild Spirit Gallery “The Raven” June 2007 Pagosa Springs Arts Council Juried Painting Show “Time Shadow – That’s Him” June-Nov. 2007 “Summer of Watercolor, Arvada, Co. Western Federation of WC Societies “M.B.4-Hand” June-Nov. 2007 “Summer of Watercolor, Arvada, Co. Colorado Watercolor Society “Market Basket 12” May-July 2007 Gateway to Imagination, Farmington , N.M. “Navajo Peak” May 2007 “Spring Watercolor Exhibition”, Alb., N.M. New Mexico Watercolor Society, “Mt. Lake 6” May 2007 PSAC Calendar for 2008 May 2007 Aquarius 2007, S.C.WC.S Pueblo, Co. “That’s Him”, “Wolf Lake 4” March 2007 “Alive With Color” Art Center at Fuller Lodge, Los Alamos, NM. “Market Basket, 5, 7,8 “ March 2007“Women’s Work” NAAC, Woodstock, Illinois “Artifact Assemblage” March 2007 “Women in the Arts” Raton Arts Council “Screwed Assemblage” Feb. 2007 “Show Reaction” Tirzah Camacho, Durango “Where’s Toto?”, “And Toto Too”
Education: B.A. in Plastic and Graphic Arts from University of Illinois, Chicago
Workshops: August 2008 Acrylic and Casein – Stephen Quiller May 2007 Watercolor – Barbara Nechis July 2006 – Pierre Mion, watercolor portraits June and October, 2005 - Pierre Mion, watercolor August 2005 - Joye Moon, watercolor August 2004 - Santa Fe, N.M. Artist’s Convention Carol Mothner – Realistic Drawing in Graphite Sean Dye – Water based oils Palette knife with oils Mixed media Oil pastels Jeanne Carbonetti - Power in Your Painting, watercolor Cathy Carey – Impressionism in acrylics June 1999 Stephen Quiller - Watercolor Workshop week Oct. 1998, Gary Greene – Colored Pencil Workshops Sept. 1997 Vera Curnow - Colored Pencil Techniques
Media : Acrylic on canvas, Watercolor, Pen + Ink, Colored Pencil |
||||
|
||||
 |
||||
COWGIRLS | DOROTHY | RAVEN | TIME PIECES | WESTERN | WHIMSICAL | SEMI-ABSTRACT | SEMI-REALISTIC | MARKET | FLOWERS | PLACES Copyright © 2005-2007 Sandy Applegate. All rights reserved. ABOUT SANDY | GICLEE | CONTACT US | SITE MAP | HOME |
||||
