Sandra Cavanagh

Sandra Cavanagh’s studio in Brooklyn, New York, The USA.

Sandra Cavanagh was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her early life was pitched on a growing awareness of the prevailing political instability, an overbearing patriarchal society and the dangers of state sanctioned brutality and censorship. Cavanagh read Social Sciences at the University of Belgrano, emigrated to California and later to the UK. She is a Fine Art graduate from Kent Institute of Art and Design, University of Kent. Since 2010 she has worked and resided in New York City.

She says, “I sustain a mostly figurative focus in reaction to current and historical narratives, including my own. Recent global events have led me to considerations of mortality and loss of innocence in transgenerational stories, the usefulness of art’s centuries old regard of myth, foundational stereotypes and the mundane occurrence of violence. Maintaining a consistent practice, I have developed a large portfolio of work including paintings, drawings and prints. I take intervals with the painting of still life and portraiture. Interested in the pairing of form and message, and formal variations on a theme, I have often worked in series, creating pictorial storylines with some urgency to exhaust the subject and form to the point of understanding or unburdening myself of it. The result is an annotation of feelings underscoring a dramatic approach to form and message.”

Visit the artist’s website at: www.sandracavanagh.com