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A judge has ruled that a lawsuit challenging the Southampton Town Board’s 2015 approval of the Canoe Place Inn planned development district can move forward.
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Read MoreArtist and activist Hope Sandrow talks with artforum.com about her creative beginnings in New York during the 1970s and ‘80s, and the impact of AIDS and gentrification on the city’s artistic landscape. In 2006, an accidental meeting with a white Padua cockerel in a forest near her home in Shinnecock Hills, New York revealed new avenues in her research and artmaking. Sandrow’s reverence for and observations of this breed of chicken has inspired series such as “open air studio,” “Observational Findings,” and the 24/7 video feed “Happenings Live,”all of which started in 2007.
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Hope Sandrow is a visual artist whose practice is in the form of stills, video, mixed media, installation, sculpture, new media and performance. Sandrow’s intent is creating works representing the natural history of everyday life; establishing discourse on notions of nature, culture, art, identity, gender, science, history, the politics of power and myth. Sandrow studied at the Philadelphia College of Art, and is the recipient of two NEA Fellowships: Artmatters Fellowship; Skowhegan Governors Award. She has been cited in several publications, including Artforum, Art in America, Artnews, Bomb, Flash Art, New York Times, and Sculpture. Additional site specific commissions/projects include Creative Time, Contemporary Museum, SECCA, Whitney Museum, The Nature Conservancy, Agnes Gund, Alanna Heiss, Dakis Joannou, Vera List, Adriana and Robert Mnuchin.
Sandrow’s current on site project spacetime references the social and art history in and around her own “backyard”, a metaphor for daily life. The study within a micro environment parallels the macrocosm: Earth. A practice in past site specific commissions and projects “ On the Streets" of Manhattan to the 68th and 69th Regiment Armories where Modern Art was first exhibited in America (Memories; Spaces; Time); the Island of Bali and of Flores where skeletal remains of ancient humanoids were found (timespace).
Recent projects of Sandrow's include Sur Rodney (Sur) performing Free Advice in Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art curated by Valerie Cassel Oliver at CAMH (Nov 17- Feb 15, 2013, Grey Art Gallery Sept 10 - Dec 7, 2013; Studio Museum in Harlem Nov 14 2013 - March 9, 2014); Open Air Studio Against the Grain: Contemporary Works in Wood co-curated By Lowery Stokes Sims and Elizabeth Kirrane (Sept 2012 - January 2014); New Acquisitions On View Parrish Art Museum (Nov 2012 - Sept 2013); Genius Lociinaugural project for Platform Parrish Art Museum (Nov 3- March 2013). Sandrow's work has been included in public collections, such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in NYC; Corcoran Gallery of Art in DC.
Hope Sandrow presently living and working in Shinnecock Hills, New York.
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art
