Sandra DeSando, In the Swim

Sandra DeSando's panel painting burst forth fully realized, following a lifetime of work in graphite and inks on paper. The intense interplay of color and form in these paintings is developed from her years of realistically rendered studies of light and shadow from nature and a translation of observation and experience into mark and line. This volume chronicles this New Jersey artist's emergence as a painter in multi and single panel works, tracking her recent career through her residencies at the Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation Studio at Mana Contemporary, Jersey City and Dilsberg, Germany. In these new works, DeSando reaches a fluid, full understanding of seeing and being in the natural world