SANDRA CAVANAGH
Sandra Cavanagh’s bold and complex paintings and drawings highlight her interest in foundational mythologies and their relevance to contemporary experience. She often works with a narrative focus and creates series of paintings, drawings, and prints. Her pieces reveal coded ideas and feelings often stemming from political concerns. Cavanagh skillfully bridges analogies of culture and place, utilizing expressive techniques and art-historical references, and offering a societal critique and commentary on art’s role as responder and mirror of our time.
Growing up in Argentina, Cavanagh faced the tensions between a loving family life and constant political upheavals, unrestrained military governments, and the ominous danger of politically sanctioned brutality and censorship. These early first hand experiences with political dangers within a patriarchal society deeply impacted her outlook and are a fundamental influence on her practice of art.
Cavanagh is originally from Buenos Aires, and studied Social Science at the University of Belgrano. She emigrated to California and then later to the UK, where she earned a graduate degree of Fine Art from K.I.A.D, University of Kent. Since 2010, Cavanagh has worked and resided in New York City.
