Isca Greenfield-Sanders

Isca Greenfield-Sanders (born 1978) is an American figurative/landscape painter based in New York City.^[1]

Early life

Greenfield-Sanders was born in New York City to lawyer, Karin and photographer, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders.^[2][3] She grew up in New York City's East Village surrounded by artists, her paternal grandmother is concert pianist and teacher Ruth W. Greenfield, her maternal grandmother is Leider singer, Isca Sanders, her maternal grandfather is painter Joop Sanders, her sister is filmmaker, Liliana Greenfield-Sanders and her uncle is steel sculptor, John Sanders.^[4]

In 2000 she received a B.A. in math and a B.A. with honors in visual arts from Brown University.^[5] She was a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome in 2001.^[5] In 2003 she married artist Sebastian Blanck, with family friend Lou Reed officiating the wedding.^[2]

Career

Greenfield-Sanders has exhibited widely thought the United States and Europe mounting solo exhibitions in New York, England, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, California, Aspen, Denver, and Virginia. She lives and works in New York City's East Village.

Her work is in the public collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum^[6] in New York City, The Brooklyn Museum^[7] in Brooklyn, NY, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston^[8], The Museum Morsbroich^[9] in Leverkusen Germany and the Victoria and Albert Museum^[10] in London.

Work

Greenfield-Sanders is an American landscape painter known for her mixed media oil paintings and watercolors based on found photography.^{[11][12][13][14][15]}

In 2003 she created a project room at MOMA PS1.^[16] In 2005 she was tapped by Creative Time to make a large scale billboard in Coney Island as a part of the Dreamland Artists Club.^[17] In 2016 Greenfield-Sanders partnered with the Children's Museum of the Arts to create four large outdoor murals for the New York City Parks Department for a playground in downtown New York City.^[18]

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