hope and fear
“She will take you to many fragments, sculpture restored by time to the condition of the sketch. She will have you extremely close to cases of small bronzes and to the largest statues so that you may see the monumental possibilities in miniatures and miniature passages in monumental works. Her vantage points are like a sculptor’s, or a lover’s or nature’s. These pictures are portraits. But not in the traditional sense. They are not sittings but scenes, glimpses of the characters; moments from their shifting, on-going self-portraiture. Impressions, memory sketches, and elaborations of the surroundings… serve them variously as mirror, chorus, backdrop, and symbol.“
— Ben Lifson, Museum Studies: Hope and Fear, 1986
See the exhibition and press list at the bottom of the page.
Hope Sandrow, installation at The Hirshhorn Museum, "Hirshhorn Biennial: Toward The Baroque"
Commissioned by Dakis Joannou, curated by Jeffrey Deitch. "Settings for Human Interaction: The Joannou Family: Dakis, Lietta, Maria, Christos, Ellie, Stellios" 1986, Athens, Greece
"A Force Unknown to the Public." Lisa and Valerie Mnuchin, Manhattan 1986 42”x30” Collection of Adriana and Robert Mnuchin
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selected )
1987 *Hope Sandrow New Work, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1986 *Hope Sandrow: Hope & Fear, Gracie Mansion Gallery, NYC
*Hope Sandrow: Hope and Fear, curated and essay by Curtis Carter, Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)
Bad Girls curated by Corinne Robins, ALJIRA, Newark, NJ.
*The Photography of Invention: American Pictures of the 1980s curated by Joshua P. Smith, National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC. Travels to: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Walker Arts Center, Minnesota
*Sequence (Con)Sequence: Photographic Multiples of the Eighties curated by Julia Ballerini Blum Art Institute, Bard College, New York
*Fantasies, Fables, and Fabrications: Photo-works from the l980s, Herter Art Gallery curated by Curated by Trevor Richardson, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA. Travels to: Delaware Art Museum; Lamont Gallery, Phillips Academy, Exeter University of Missouri Art Gallery, St. Louis
*Photography on the Edge, curated by Curtis Carter, Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Mil, WI.
Kunst Rai, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
*Large As Life: Contemporary Photography, curated by Kellie Jones Henry Street Settlement, NYC: Jamaica Arts Center repro
Arrangements for the Camera: A View of Contemporary Photography, Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland
*Contemporary Diptychs: The New Shape of Content curated by Roni Feinstein, The Whitney Museum of American Art at Equitable Center NYC and Fairfield, CT. Catalogue repro p 8
*Fragments, San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, CA. repro
*Group UFO (photography), curated by Sur Rodney Sur, Gracie Mansion Gallery NYC
New Acquisitions, curated by Kathleen Goncharov New School for Social Research 1987
*Working Spaces: New Work from New York, curated by Allison Ferris, University Art Gallery, State University of New York Jan-Feb
*Directions Biennial Toward the Baroque, curated by Phyllis Rosenzweig, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC. Sandrow. Stella, Morris, and Turrell. Catalogue Smithsonian Institution Press
The East Village, curated by Richard Martin, Harold Koda, and Laura Sindebrand, Fashion Institute of Technology, NYC.
*Biennial: Painting and Sculpture Today, The lndianapolis Museum of Art repro
Note: an asterisk denotes that a catalogue accompanies the exhibition.
PRESS: (selected)
James Auer, Sandrow’s photos bridge time, space, The Milwaukee Journal August 24 p See repro 1986
Vince Aletti, Voice Choice Hope Sandrow, Village Voice, June 7, 1988
Saturday Review: Hope Sandrow, Briefings Tears for Fears, June 1988, repro p14
Andy Grundberg, From New Talent, Bold New Images, New York Times, Nov. 13, 1987, pp.Cl, C23
Vince Aletti, Photography Choices: Group UFO, Village Voice, Nov. 10, 1987, p.49
Liz Lufkin, The Multiple Image Approach, San Francisco Chronicle, June 21, 1987, p.13
Carlo McCormick, Art Group-UFO Paper, November 1987
Carlo McCormick, Guide to East Village Artists, Arts p 10
“Hope & Fear is a series of arranged and composed pictures taken at the MET - juxtaposing the museum’s version of reality with Sandrow’s own. To say that the making and marketing of art was not immune to the kind of general cynicism expressed everywhere from Madison Avenue to Wall Street is not to imply that artists are wrong to seek and receive recognition and fair compensation or that the only “true” artist is a starving-or better yet, a dead-artist.”
— Andrea Wolper, The Spirit of Art as Activism, Making Art, Reclaiming Lives: The Artist & Homeless Collaborative 1995