Featured Work
Exhibition
About
Sandrine Kern’s work is indicative of landscapes conjured by memory that communicate residual emotions to her viewers.
The thick surfaces of her paintings are built up through her unique alteration of a technique similar to encaustic. Instead of utilizing hot wax in her process, Kern combines oil sticks, oil paint, and cold wax to create a creamy, rich surface rifled with depth. She then further manipulates the surface through the reductive process of scraping away layers with a knife and solvents.
Kern places importance on the mood of each work by highlighting the surface luminosity through her use of a high contrast color palette. The highly suggestive representation of each natural element she depicts is void of details that define a specific tree, or a specific location. Instead, the paintings convey the essence of form but are still recognizably landscapes. For Kern, each painting represents the mood of a past moment, and contains a certain freedom of motion which keeps the work from appearing static.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022 Blue Water Lilies, Nikola Rukaj Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2020 Water Lilies, Argazzi Art, Lakeville, CT
2020 Halfway to Reality and a Little Bit Lost, Madelyn Jordon Fine Art, Scarsdale, NY
2013 Solo Show, OK Harris, New York, NY
2012 Ethereal Landscapes, Thomas Paul Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Colors, Thomas Paul Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Spring Show, Thomas Paul Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Spring Show, Gruen Galleries, Chicago, IL
2007 New Paintings, Gail Harvey Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2006 Summer, Gail Harvey Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2005 New Landscapes, Gail Harvey Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2004 Recent Work, Gail Harvey Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2003 New Landscapes, Gail Harvey Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 Glam Up, Laura Rathe Fine Art, Houston, TX
2021 Summer Blues, Madelyn Jordon Fine Art, Scarsdale, NY
2019 Staging Nature: A World Unto Itself, Madelyn Jordon Fine Art, Scarsdale, NY
2018 Art in the Boros IV, Denise Bibro Fine Art, New York, NY
2018 Gestural Hands – Women Painters, Nikola Rukaj Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2017 Gold & Black & White, Argazzi Art, Lakeville, CT
2016 Black and White, William Shearburn Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2014 September Group Show, Thomas Paul Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Summer Show, Gruen Galleries, Chicago, IL
2009 La Vie Provencale, Alliance Francaise, New Orleans, LA
2009 Art of Seeing, Allen Sheppard Gallery, New York, NY
2008 New Artists, Costello Childs Contemporary Fine Art, Scottsdale AZ
2008 Incognito, Santa Monica Art Museum, Santa Monica, CA
2008 Contemporary Forum, Phoenix Museum
2005 Stricoff Fine Art, New York, NY
2001 Autumn, Tessel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1996 Conversations, Alliance Française, San Francisco, CA
1993 Galerie des Beaux Arts, Paris, France
1991 Galerie de Ville, Milly la Foret, France
1990 Centre Culturel, Meudon la Foret, France
Education
MFA with Honors, Painting and Drawing, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Paris, France
