Installation view, detail, In Response Mounted, 1989, Gracie Mansion Gallery
(l to r) Water Bottle Spilled, silver print 60”x43” Collection Penny & David McCall; Beetles, Leaf in Water, 46 3/4” x 36 3/4” silver print, Collection Buhl Foundation; Misdirected Use, silver print, Private Collection
In Response(mounted)
In Response(mounted), Hope Sandrow’s photographic installations investigate Man’s passive nature to an endangered environment. Sandrow explores this subject through a study of our relationship to water, in-disposable garbage, and an evolved insect life that has adjusted to making a home within deteriorating conditions. Sandrow’s images juxtapose items of found plastic garbage such as bottles, egg cartons, and Styrofoam containers with human subjects, whose fragility is threatened by the eternal nature of material which will never decay. Other photos confront the fact that while our ability to survive in this man-made climate is in jeopardy, insects have adjusted in a Darwinian manner to further dwell and reproduce.
Sur Rodney Sur
See the exhibition and press list at the bottom of the page.
Marcel Duchamp’s, Étant Donnés
1. La chute d’eau, 2. Le gaz d’éclairage (Given: 1. The Waterfall,
The Box Images, are exhibited here as a group of four free-standing sculptural pieces, juxtaposing what the viewer wants to see (by obscuring one’s vision) with a dilemma. In Box: Beetle on a Blade of Grass, we are presented with a limited vision, as if we are looking through someone’s eyes, whose hands are cupped around his/her face. What we see is a human figure who stares intently at a fixed point. On the reverse side, we see what this fixed point is: a beetle on a blade of grass that appears to be imperiled. Our tendency to obscure what we do not want to reveal is therefore confronted and questioned in these box pieces; the vision of the person who peers through cupped hands at a distant figure ignoring what captivates that figure, refusing to address the beetle’s fate.
Excerpt, Gracie Mansion Gallery exhibition hand-out 1989
Box: Beetle on a Blade of Grass, 1989
48” x 16” x 4”
Unique
Mecox Bay Watermill NY,
Box, Floating, 1989
Silver prints, wood
48” x 16” x 4”
Unique
Mecox Bay Watermill NY
contradiction
Contradiction, 2007
Silver prints, wood
36 1/2” x24 1/2” x 6 1/2”
unique
Photographs made in Shinnecock Hills Studio (2007 titled open air studio Shinnecock Hills)
Untitled I, 1991
Silver prints
18” x 12” map pins
Photographs made in Shinnecock Hills Studio (2007 titled open air studio Shinnecock Hills) private collection
Untitled II, 1991
Silver prints
18” x 12” map pins
Photographs made in Shinnecock Hills Studio (2007 titled open air studio Shinnecock Hills) collection of the artist
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selected)
1991 Hope Sandrow Disposable curated by Thomas Sokolowski Grey Art Museum, New York University. NYC
Hope Sandrow: Three Views curated by Holly Block, Art in General, NYC.
1989 Hope Sandrow Response(mounted) Gracie Mansion Gallery, NYC
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)
1993 *The Subject of Rape, curated by Whitney Museum Independent Study Program Monica Chau, Hannah J. L. Feldman, Jennifer Kabat, Hannah Kruse, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC. 1993 repro
1992 Hope Sandrow Flag for the Nineties, curated by Kathleen Goncharov commissioned for Vera List, NY
1992 WAC, Art at the Anchorage, curated by Creative Time, Anne Pasternak
*Dirt & Domesticity, and the Construction of the Feminine, curated by Independent Study program, Jesus Fuenmayor, Kate Haug, Frazer Ward, Cara Mertes, Whitney Museum of American Art
1991 *The Art of Advocacy, curated by Ellen O’Donnell Rankin, Aldrich Museum.
Commission a Portrait Gallery Benefit, P.S. 122. curated by Thelma Golden, Ken Chu, Steve Keister NYC
Houston Museum of Fine Arts The Allan Chasanoff Photographic Collection
*Blast, curated by Jordan Crandall X-Art Foundation, 1991 page 33
The Starving Artists Cookbook, curated by Paul & Melissa EIDIA, 1991
1990 *Dia De Los Muertos/Day of the Dead, curated by Geno Rodriguez, Fran Resch, Alternative Museum, NYC. ps 10-11, 21, 25.
Thoughts on Homelessness, essay from the catalogue by Hope Sandrow, Dia De Los Muertos/Day of the Dead, Alternative Museum
Notes on the Margin: A Framework in Focus, Gracie Mansion Gallery, NYC.
Note: an asterixsk denotes that a catalogue accompanies the exhibition.
PRESS
Robert Atkins, Art as Shelter, Village Voice, Nov. 27, 1990
P.C. Smith, Hope Sandrow, Art in America, April 1990, pg. 264 repro
Vince Aletti, Voice Choice Hope Sandrow, Village Voice, Oct. 10, 1989
Phyllis Rosenzweig, Aerial Magazine, Washington, D.C., repros 1989
Estelle Jussim, The Cutting Edge, Boston Review, October 1989, p. 5
Bill Jones, Born Again, Seeing the End of Photography, Arts, October 1989, pp. 72-77 repro