Sandhi Schimmel Gold
Artist’s Bio
I learned to mix paint before I could write my name and play piano before I could read music.
I spent my youth sitting quietly in my bedroom drawing. I cut school to spend days at art museums and galleries in New York City. I changed disciplines in grad school so many times, I decided to take my life-long love of learning out of academia. In most ways, I am self-taught. I studied mosaics overseas and applied this knowledge into my current work. I am very much influenced by what I have seen during my extensive travels and inspired by fashion, music and emotions.
Artist’s Statement
My work reflects our society’s obsession with beauty through advertising – and the endless images that bombard us daily. It is a purposeful intermix of images derived from advertising and thousands of incongruent pieces – images and text – from advertising that arrives through my mailbox. Assembled like a mosaic, the paper tiles create an entirely new image – an eclectic and tactile portrait reworked in my imagination, utilizing materials that would otherwise go to waste.