Sandra Scolnik was born in Glens Falls, New York in 1968. She now lives and works in Rennes, France.
The work of Sandra Scolnik explores an allegorical form of self-portraiture. The mise en scène, framed within the edges of her typically modest-sized paintings, portray the changing scenes of an ongoing drama where her self-contained narratives linger in and out of the surreal and the absurd. The figures seem to cross the boundaries of their own physical limits and the associations with their surroundings, where decorative ornaments can become nipples and the bed sheets drawn into a figure’s skirt. The psychological and the corporeal become interchangeable and the sexual clearly present but not without a hint of the sinister.
It is a realm of defined power and power relations, of ritualized practice and submission; the servile and the served, the nude and the lavishly clothed. The artist is among the cast of players where she embodies every figure in the scene, as if cloned in multipart.
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How does she make the dvisions so in-your-face, yet also so sublimal? Wow.