Sandy Applegate
Her colors are bold, exciting and vibrant. Her images are partly literal, but she incorporates “other-worldly” or abstract elements also. Many pieces contain suggestions of the macrocosmic or microcosmic in them, often using circles or repetition to indicate the on-going cyclic nature of life. She keeps a sense of humor about her, and loves to leave room in her work for the mysterious, the personal interpretation. |
Sandy has been a full-time resident of Pagosa Springs, Colorado since 1995. She was born in Wisconsin, raised in Illinois, and attended art school in Chicago. She is currently devoting her time to creating and marketing her artwork, as well as skiing, hiking, reading, and gardening.
She studied art in college, spent many years in a variety of careers and past-times, but always created and experimented with art media. With the addition of several workshops with notables such as Pierre Mion, Gary Greene, Vera Curnow, Stephen Quiller, and Sean Dye, she is free to use her “Artistic License” to create whatever reality she dreams of.
Starting to draw and “doodle” as a teenager, she always knew she was destined to do things differently. This is evident in one very early photograph of her with her two sisters and brother: the other three stand erect, hands at their sides, facing the camera head-on with nice smiles on their faces. Sandy however has arms akimbo, is turned 45 degrees to the left, eyes closed with a scrunched-up little grin on her face. No wonder that she calls her artwork “Reality With a Twist”.
Sandy’s artwork deals with shape, color and ideas: definitely with her own version of reality. She works primarily in acrylic, watercolor, and pen and ink. She often incorporates mixed media to create unusual effects. She likes to have several series of different subject matter in the works at one time, this helps to keep her images and ideas fresh and lively.
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Current Gallery Representation and Memberships:
Act One Gallery, Taos, New Mexico Invited artist
Wild Spirit Gallery, Pagosa Springs, Colorado
Swirl Wine Emporium, Manitou Springs, Colorado
Cholke Fine Art Gallery, Rockford, Illinois
Shy Rabbit ArtsNetWork
Steamboat Springs Art Museum
Former Gallery Representation:
Two Horse Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Works on Paper, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Awards:
June 2009 PSAC Annual Juried Show, Second place
May 2009 American Juried Art Salon, Master Class Plus Rating
Nov. 2008 American Juried Art Salon, Master Class Rating
Signature Membership in the Colorado Watercolor Society, 2008
Signature Membership in the Southern Colorado Watercolor Society, 2009
April-June, 2008, One-woman show in the Avenue Gallery of the BAC in
Manitou Springs, Co., “The Raven”
Aug. 2007 Sangre DeCristo Art Center, Pueblo, Co. One-Person Show
June 2007 Pagosa Springs Arts Council Juried Painting Show
“Time Shadow – That’s Him” First Place
May-July 2007 Gateway to Imagination, Farmington , N.M.
“Navajo Peak” Special Recognition Award
May 2007 Aquarius 2007, S.C.WC.S Pueblo, Co.
“Wolf Lake 4”, Second Place
Publications:
“The Edgar Allan Poe Review” Fall 2008, Vol. IX, No. 2. pg. 97-99
Centerfold Contest: “Art Calendar” June 2000
Recent Juried Shows:
June, 2009 Shy Rabbit “Paper and Clay 2”
June, 2009 PSAC 7th Juried Art Show, “Coop 5 Terre”
May 2009 “Extinction”, Denver Botanic Gardens. “GW 090125-3”
May. 2009 Western Federation of Watercolor Societies, San Diego, Ca.
“Italian Cat”
Nov. 2008 International Society of Acrylic Painters, “GW ORB 14”
Nov. 2008 American Juried Art Salon, “Mountain Lake 7”
Nov. 2008, Daniael Fine Art Gallery, Juried Art Competition
June 2008 American Juried Art Salon, “Orb 7”
June, 2008 PSAC 6th Juried Art Show, “Orb 6”
May, 2008 Aquarius 2008, SCWS, Pueblo, Co.
Feb. 2008 Western Federation of Watercolor Societies, Tubac, AZ.
“Positive Coaching”
Oct. 2007 Wild Spirit Gallery “The Raven”
June 2007 Pagosa Springs Arts Council Juried Painting Show
“Time Shadow – That’s Him”
June-Nov. 2007 “Summer of Watercolor, Arvada, Co.
Western Federation of Watercolor Societies “M.B.4-Hand”
June-Nov. 2007 “Summer of Watercolor, Arvada, Co.
Colorado Watercolor Society “Market Basket 12”
May-July 2007 Gateway to Imagination, Farmington , N.M.
“Navajo Peak”
May 2007 “Spring Watercolor Exhibition”, Albuquerque, N.M.
New Mexico Watercolor Society, “Mt. Lake 6”
May 2007 PSAC Calendar for 2008, “Echinacea”, “Follow Me”
May 2007 Aquarius 2007, S.C.WC.S Pueblo, Co.
“That’s Him”, “Wolf Lake 4”
March 2007 “Alive With Color” Art Center at Fuller Lodge,
Los Alamos, NM. “Market Basket, 5, 7,8 “
March 2007“Women’s Work” NAAC, Woodstock, Illinois
“Artifact Assemblage”
March 2007 “Women in the Arts” Raton Arts Council
“Screwed Assemblage”
Education:
B.A. in Plastic and Graphic Arts from University of Illinois, Chicago
Workshops:
2008-2009 Reductive-Ink Printmaking Without a Press: Shy Rabbit Studio
August 2008 Acrylic and Casein – Stephen Quiller
May 2007 Watercolor – Barbara Nechis
July 2006 – Pierre Mion, watercolor portraits
June and October, 2005 - Pierre Mion, watercolor
August 2005 - Joye Moon, watercolor
August 2004 - Santa Fe, N.M. Artist’s Convention
Carol Mothner – Realistic Drawing in Graphite
Sean Dye – Water based oils
Palette knife with oils
Mixed media
Oil pastels
Jeanne Carbonetti - Power in Your Painting, watercolor
Cathy Carey – Impressionism in acrylics
June 1999 Stephen Quiller - Watercolor Workshop week
Oct. 1998, Gary Greene – Colored Pencil Workshops
Sept. 1997 Vera Curnow - Colored Pencil Techniques
Media :
Acrylic, Watercolor, Pen + Ink,
Reductive-Ink Printmaking
Sandy Applegate
1600 Hatcher Circle
Pagosa Springs, Co. 81147
(970) 731-9325
skapplegate@skywerx.com
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