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Dutton, Sandra - $85.00TITLE: "Just a Matter of Time"DIMENSIONS: 21.5h x 20w x 2.5d STYLE: wall COMPOSITION: fabric and wood DISPLAY LOCATION: Epic Sports, 6 Central Street ABOUT THE ARTIST: In addition to her award-winning fine art work, which has been exhibited from coast to coast over the last three decades, Sandra has had published by national publishers (such as Athenaeum, Farrar, Straus & Giroux and Houghton-Mifflin) five children's books, some of which she illustrated, with the latest being "Dear Miss Perfect: A Beast's Guide to Proper Behavior." Her new musical comedy, "Just a Matter of Time," for which she wrote both the book and the lyrics, has been an early hit both in New York and in her home state of Maine. Sandra has been called a 'Coastal Character' by The Coastal Journal, as she is a woman of both coasts. Her ancestors were ship-owners and ship captains, sailing out of Antwerp for centuries and in the early 19th century from Philadelphia and Bath, Maine, until in the 1850's they all sailed for and settled in San Francisco. Sandra is not sure which coast she prefers, but she is now living in Boothbay Harbor, where she maintains a home studio for art and a separate home office for her writing. Culture of all variety is in her DNA. Her great uncle, Frank Pixley, close friend of Leland Stanford and Attorney General when Stanford was Governor of California, founded the famed cultural journal The Argonaut, which was one of the first to publish the writings of Mark Twain and which employed Ambrose Bierce as editor. Other relatives headed orchestras in San Francisco and elsewhere. And her dad, although an engineer by trade, painted, composed music and wrote lyrics, some of whose compositions Sandra still loves to sing. Although she has been writing and drawing from early childhood and winning awards for both, her initial formal schooling was in Art at Indiana University where she received her BFA. She also has a MFA from San Francisco State University and a Doctorate from the University of Louisville. She has taught both Art and Writing from grade school through graduate school. ARTIST STATEMENT: "I like ambiguity - a stroke that reads clearly as paint, yet also part of a design. I obsess over strokes, favoring certain brushes that allow me to make clean sweeps, to lay down clean color. It's the goosh and swoosh of the paint I love, finding surprises - a color that sears, a rhythm that dances. I try to capture energy. Today my subjects are Maine: people, places and things. My ancestors were sea captains who settled in Bath. I just discovered that my high school art teacher summered in Boothbay Harbor. I like knowing this. It makes me feel grounded, and the grounding is part of my painting." CONTACT INFORMATION: www.sandradutton.com (207) 350-6098 |
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