Study

1: a state of contemplation;  2: careful or extended consideration; 3: a building or room devoted to study; 4: an object of study or deliberation; 5: something attracting close attention or examination; 6: a literary or artistic production intended as a preliminary outline, an experimental interpretation


In chronological descending order:

Nourishing Reciprocity: Artists in Collaboration

Hope Sandrow, open air studio Shinnecock Hills spacetime with Kelly Dennis, Jeremy Dennis, Brianna Hernandez Baurichter, Ma's House

Friday, June 10, 2022

We are excited to announce Nourishing Reciprocity: Artists in Collaboration. “Our new interdisciplinary project is in the beginning phase, stemming from a relationship of reciprocity and gratitude as...


(Re)collecting An Artist’s Dream

Saturday, March 20, 2021

Re)collecting An Artist’s Dream is the inaugural exhibition (Spring Equinox, Note 1) inside and out “the Cottage” and on the road of open-air studio Shinnecock Hills. Organized by Sandrow, to be...

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The Sky is Falling (Too)

Thursday, May 28, 2020

The Sky is Falling (Too) looks to the future through the lens of America’s social and cultural Colonial past from the perspective of “this land was made for you and me”. (Note 1)

Posing the question...

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Women’s Study(room) in the Cottage

Sunday, January 12, 2020

Women’s Study(room) is located on the second floor of the Cottage (Note 1), on lands within the former Jane Borrowe Colt Estate included in the Shinnecock Indian Contact Period Village Fort Critical...

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Portrait of a Chicken as an Egg (Candled) within A Golden Rectangle

Friday, August 16, 2019

"Sometimes when you’re looking for one thing, you find something completely different and unexpected”.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Exhibiting Sandrow’s unexpected discovery that a...

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Coop LeWitt: (re)constructing Sol LeWitt

Friday, January 18, 2019

Coop Lewitt Cube (pictured l) one of four (North, South, East) Coop LeWitt's inspired by chance encounters. Beginning with the white Padovana Cockeral Shinnecock, who crossed the road to follow...

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Portrait of a Chicken as an Egg (Candled) within A Golden Rectangle

Thursday, October 25, 2018

This egg, created by a Shinnecock Family Flock Hen, references the style of framing drawings and portraits in “vignettes” popular in the Victorian period. And, the longtime association between...

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Southampton Arts and Culture

Monday, June 19, 2017

Sandrow founded and chairs the inaugural Town of Southampton Arts and Culture Committee (SHACC) devoted to arts and culture on the east end. Colleague committee members currently (2021) include artists...

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The Fabric of Time and Space

Friday, October 28, 2016

The fabric of time and space was created by Sandrow in response to a commission, for a permanent installation at the new US Embassy Jakarta (2018), from Art in Embassies Chief Curator Virginia L....

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_Findings

Saturday, September 26, 2015

One of a dozen entries relating to new observations during daily life in Sandrow’s open air studio Shinnecock Hills.

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Sketches of Local History, Shinnecock Canal Canoe Place

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

This freely accessed web-based public artwork was created by Sandrow as a community platform for continuing discourse about preservation and conservation practices along the Shinnecock Canal (1892)...

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Observational Findings Gallus Gallus

Sunday, January 25, 2015

A context for this series of portraits is Sandrow’s flock of Padovana chickens whose ancestral heritage to Gallus Gallus (Red Junglefowl) and related to the feathered Avian Dinosaurs dating back to one hundred and sixty million years...

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Wednesday, January 1, 2014


One of five hundred entries (since January 1, 2014), that are composed of daily life observations in Sandrow’s “own backyard” to those around the world.

To (re)generate discourse on notions of nature, culture...

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Sky(gaze) Within a Cube

Monday, April 8, 2013

"...the problem about the egg and the hen, which of them came first, was dragged into our talk, a difficult problem which gives investigators much trouble. And Sulla my comrade said that with a small...

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Observational Findings Drawn in Dirt

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Photograph of a drawing found in dirt, amongst more than forty made by Anonymous members of Shinnecock Family Flock.

This photograph and drawing raise many timely issues, from what is art and who is...

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Genius Loci

Thursday, October 25, 2012

ARTIST, HOPE SANDROW TO INAUGURATE PLATFORM AT THE PARRISH ART MUSEUM
The new series, titled, Platform, offers three-month residencies to artists for the development of site-specific projects.

WATER MILL, NY 10/25/2012 —  Conceptual...

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The Sky is Falling

Friday, November 20, 2009

(March 28, 2006) When Sandrow’s path crossed with a large white bird (l, a Padovana cockerel later named Shinnecock for where they met) on Hills: his feathered crest reminded her of Edward S. Curtis’s...

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When Dreams Collide

Tuesday, January 1, 2008

When Dreams Collide is an ongoing study investigating timely issues reflected in societal transformations including the status of women, positioning of artists, and native peoples after Algonquian...

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Observational Findings

Sunday, June 10, 2007

This ongoing study documents the births of chicks within Shinnecock’s family flock from 2007 til 2020…displaying that life can be sustained within Sandrow’s living art...

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Happening Live

Wednesday, June 6, 2007

A dozen mixed-media installations framed by a dozen network cameras donated by Panasonic North America to study the effects of climate change as the Shinnecock Family Flock and native flora and fauna adapt...

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On The Road

Thursday, April 12, 2007

On The Road, was inspired by the cock-a-doodling-do of people passing by and their response to the calls of the Rooster Shinnecock and his first-born sons, Alain, Agenor, and Galileo. At a time when...

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(Re)collecting An American’s dream: Gissa Bu

Thursday, October 12, 2006

The American Dream is “that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone.“
James Truslow Adams, The Epic of America 1931

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Observational Findings Untitled (lay bare)

Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Observational Findings Untitled (lay bare) reveals “things” (Note 1) unearthed in the ground by Sandrow and/or Shinnecock Flock Members (Note 2), and behind walls (pictured left), Graphite Drawing on...

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When Dreams Collide: Life, Art and the Pursuit of Happiness

Thursday, May 25, 2006

When Dreams Collide is an ongoing study investigating timely issues reflected in societal transformations including the status of women, the positioning of artists, and native peoples displaced from their...

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Chance Encounter

Tuesday, March 28, 2006

In the distant past, alignments of the planets (Sandrow’s Untitled Observations May 15 commencing 1:30am Self Portrait spacetime Conjunction of Five Planets) were seen as portents of things to come...

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