imprints
In 2013, Sigrid Sandström worked with master printer Marina Ancona at 10 Grand Press in the US. The result was a series of prints, all unique, characterized by Sigrid Sandström's distinctive painterly language, translated into the world of prints. Previously, ed. art has sold a few of these prints. Now, four more gems have reached Sweden.
Sigrid Sandström herself says that the monotypes have been a tool for thinking about how an image can reproduce itself, by duplication, imprints and inversions. The prints have been produced by plexiglass being covered by stencils and collage, being treated and painted, then placed on a paper and run through the printing press. The mirror image is the final result.
– It is brain exercise to see how an image is reproduced the other way around, diagonal, backwards. Working with monotypes is making use of an alternative mirror world where each print is unique and mirroring its original. As a kind of experiment that takes place through a materializing, visualization and philosophizing about pictorial phenomena.
Sigrid Sandström is one of most well-renowned painters of her generation, with a number of major exhibitions both in the US and Sweden. Most recently, her work could be seen at the double exhibition Between Us at Galleri Gunnar Olsson and Cecilia Hillström Gallery in Stockholm, autumn 2015. Sandström is in addition to a recognized painter also a committed professor of fine arts specializing in painting at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm, where she since a number of years has fostered new generations of artists. Sandström herself studied at Yale University School of Art, graduating in 2001.