Featured Work
Exhibition
May 23, 2023 - June 21, 2023
Under the Influence | Contemporary Artists and the Masters Who Inspire Them
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Isca Greenfield-Sanders’ landscape paintings based on found vintage photography, invite her viewer to forge a connection to their own experience. Using the old pictures as a starting point, she creates several iterations of each image, which she alters with pencil and watercolor, and finally paints over with oil. Image fragments are distilled into carefully composed paintings, which emerge simultaneously familiar and enigmatic.
Isca Greenfield-Sanders was born in New York City, where she currently lives and works. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Brown University, in Providence, RI, in 2000 in both Visual Art and Mathematics.
Solo exhibitions of Isca Greenfield-Sanders’ paintings have been held at The Museum of Contemporary Art Denver; The Museum Morsbroich, Germany; and MoMA PS1, New York. She is represented worldwide by Miles McEnery Gallery (New York), Berggruen Gallery (San Francisco), Galerie Klüser (Germany), Baldwin Gallery (Aspen, CO), Wetterling Gallery (Sweden) and Dubner Moderne (Switzerland.) Her works are included in the public collections of The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Brooklyn Museum; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022 The Things I Can’t Forget, Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY
2022 Ocean Eyes of Blue, Michael Reid Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2021 Let’s Be Still, Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2021 If I Could Go Back, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
2021 You’re My Favorite Thing By Far, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2020 Shade My Eyes, Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY
2019 Today and Everyday, Galerie Klüser, Munich, Germany
2018 Inherited Landscape, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2017 Keep Them Still, Ameringer McEnery Yohe, New York, NY
2016 Balance Point, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
2016 All Roads in My Mind, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2015 Those Few Hours, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
2015 I’ll Be Your Mirror, Dubner Moderne, Lausanne, Switzerland
2014 Somewhere Else, Somewhere Good, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2013 Marines, Galerie Klüser, Munich, Germany
2012 Second State, Haunch of Venison, London, England
2011 The Ocean Between, Haunch of Venison, New York, NY
2011 Film Edges, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2010 Field at Hollow Road, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010 Light Leaks, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver, CO
2009 A Beautiful Place to Get Lost, Galerie Klüser, Munich, Germany
2009 Light Leak, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
2008 Against The Fall, Goff and Rosenthal, New York, NY
2007 Red Boat Beaches, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006 Isca Greenfield-Sanders, Museum Morisbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
2006 Viridian Isle, Galerie Klüser, Munich Germany
2006 Pinelawn Pools, Goff and Rosenthal, New York, NY
2006 Swimming Pool Paintings, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2005 Sky of Blue, Sea of Green, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 Paintings for Harley, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
2004 Silver Cove, Galerie Klüser, Munich, Germany
2003 Rose Point P.S.1, Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
2003 Windswept Fields, Galerie Klüser, Munich, Germany
2002 Beachwood Park, Lombard Freid Fine Arts, New York, NY
2002 New Work, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, Colorado
2001 Three Project Rooms, Galleria in Arco, Turin, Italy
2000 Memories, Galleria in Arco, Turin, Italy
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Under the Influence | Contemporary Artists and the Masters Who Inspire Them, Somerville Manning Gallery, Greenville, DE
2023 Landscape Crossover, Galerie Klüser, Munich, Germany
2023 Transcendent Variables, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2022 Unnatural Nature curated by Todd Bradway, Aquavella, New York, NY and Palm Beach, FL
2022 Who’s Afraid of Blue?, Galerie Klüser, Munich, Germany
2022 COMPETERE: An Exhibition of Artist Couples, Bo Bartlett Center, Columbus, GA
2021 Landscape and Memory, Pamela Salisbury Gallery, Hudson, NY
2021 Deep Blue, Curated by Katherine Bradford, Hall Art Foundation, Reading, VT
2021 Water Marks: Images of Water in the Collection, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
2020 Do You Think It Needs A Cloud?, Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY
2019 Striking Gold, Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, Massachusetts
2019 Realitat Check, Kunstraum Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
2019 Oceans Edge, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, Vermont
2018 Always Greener: Seeing and Seeking Suburbia – Selections from the Museum’s Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
2018 Belief in Giants, Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY
2017 Isca Greenfield-Sanders in Conversation with Julian Opie, Galerie Fluegel-Roncak, Germany
2016 Paulson Bott Press: Celebrating 20 years, De Young, San Francisco, CA
2014 Sargent’s Daughters, Sargent’s Daughters, New York, NY
2014 Domesticity, Jason McCoy, New York, NY
2013 Missed Connection, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
2013 Ten Years, Wallspace, New York, NY
2013 Playing with Process: Explorations in Experimental Printmaking, MFA Houston, Houston, Texas
2013 The Distaff Side, The Granary, Sharon, CT
2013 1XX Curated by Sam Trioli, Launch F18, New York, NY
2012 Radical Terrain, Rubin Museum, New York, NY
2012 Beached, Gallery Valentine, Long Island, NY
2011 Art in Embassies Program, U.S. Department of State, Tel Aviv
2011 Out of Focus, After Gerhard Richter, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
2010 Nothing Gold Can Stay, Robert Goff Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Extended Family: Contemporary Connections curated by Eugenie Tsai, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
2009 One Size Fits All, On Stellar Rays, New York, NY
2009 In Their Own Right: Contemporary Women Printmakers, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
2006 Summer Group Show, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL
2005 Carla Mattii, Isca Greenfield-Sanders, Silvia Zotti, Uno Su Nove, Rome, Italy
2005 Convertible Fabric Pyramid curated by Demetrio Paproni, Benevento, Italy
2004 River Arts, Cassola Gallery, Peekskill, NY
2003 Frans von Lenbach and Art Today, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
2003 Prague Biennale: Peripheries Become the Center, Veletrzni Palac, Prague
2003 Photography as Model, Wallspace Gallery, New York, NY
2003 After Matisse & Picasso, PS1 Contemporary Art, Queens, NY
2003 Sanders & Greenfield-Sanders, Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
2003 25th Anniversary Show, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2002 Painting as Paradox, Artist’s Space, New York, NY
2002 Gothic Mood, Palazzo Delle Stelline, Milan, Italy
2002 Friends and Family, Lombard Freid Fine Arts, New York, NY
2002 27 Emerging Artists, Spike Gallery, New York, NY
2001 Vice Versa, Rare Gallery, New York, NY
2001 Addition Subtraction, Carlin Space, New York, NY
2001 Collectors Choice, Exit Art, New York, NY
2000 Biblioteca Comunale, Torre del Castello, Turin, Italy
Selected Public Collections
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Brooklyn Museum, New York
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio
Palm Springs Museum, Palm Springs
Hospital for Special Surgery, New York
Administration for Children’s Services, New York City
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, New Hamshire
Education
2000 BA in Visual Art and Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, RI
