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  • Downtown Up
    Sandy Bleifer
    Sandy Bleifer applies her artistic eye to the defining elements of downtown Los Angeles' Historic Core and helps to create a new vision for their revitalization and reuse.A photographic narrative of the return to economic and social viability of downtown Los Angeles, which began in the mid-1990s. The pictures simulate a focused walk through the Historic Core - its rich arch...
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    33,62 €

  • The Bradbury Building
    Sandy Bleifer
    An architectural gem from 1893 inspired the revitalization of a dormant downtown in Los Angeles in the 1990's.The Bradbury Building is one of the most iconic buildings in Los Angeles, unlike any other office building of its time or since. This book is a tribute to not only the building's namesake and architect, but to Ira Yellin, the visionary developer who recognized t...
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    25,25 €

  • Saving the Venice Walkstreets
    Sandy Bleifer
    Photodocumentation of the Walkstreets of Venice, California in the early 1990s when they had been under consideration for removal in a new Coastal Plan.The cherished Walkstreets of Venice, California as described and acclaimed by its residents.   Sidewalks instead of roadways connect neighbors with facing front yards and enable social discourse and a sense of security rare in u...
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    26,42 €

  • PAPER
    Sandy Bleifer
    The Walls series utilizes paper as an expression of the urban environment. The Walls and Graffiti series explore connections between the artist’s vocabulary of paper manipulation and treatment techniques and the nature of architectural elements. Handmade paper, art papers and silkscreen collages express the nature of a wide variety of surfaces and bear the effect of age and wea...
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    28,95 €

  • PAPER
    Sandy Bleifer
    The several Southwest series express the recognition that the landscape of various regions embody infinite combinations of basic rock formations and colorations and, as such, share the nature of the printed multiple as individualized by printing and after-treatments. Subjecting the prints to the forces of nature and chemical and mechanical degradation mimics the forces of natur...
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    29,17 €

  • PAPER
    Sandy Bleifer
    Beginning in the 1980s artist Sandy Bleifer's work became more sculptural and much of it emulated metal surfaces. In a desire to explore working directly with metal, she learned how to weld and found herself drawn to scraps of metal. Using them as a support and as a foil to her work in paper led to the Metal / Drawing series.The metal selected was neither new nor perfect, b...
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    14,33 €

  • PAPER
    Sandy Bleifer
    The folding screen format in Sandy Bleifer's art is a means of representing Time and Space in a static medium.The folds encompass space and add a greater three-dimensionality to textured surfaces. Folding also enables the work to stand independently as sculptural objects. This enhances the “realism” of images such as mountains and clouds.The folding screen, as an articulate...
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    22,99 €

  • PAPER
    Sandy Bleifer
    The artist takes on topics such as the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Holocaust, mass migration, the Dakota Access Pipeline, the Trump era and the revitalization of historic buildings and neighborhoods in Los Angeles. Bleifer's work has always been concerned about destructive forces: man’s inhumanity to man, the destructive forces of nature, the active role of human...
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    46,40 €

  • PAPER
    Sandy Bleifer
    Self portraits and body casts of dancers/costumes in handmade paper. These works are part of a long tradition of portraiture, artist self portraits and death masks in art history.The “life casts” of the artists’ face and body merge self-portraiture and gestural use of sheets of paper with the figure exerting its presence. The "Circus Costumes” were commissioned for a dance perf...
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    22,67 €

  • PAPER
    Sandy Bleifer
    The figure in flight conjures up a familiar female archetype – an angel - an arbiter between human suffering and transcendence. The use of the female figure – long a staple of Western artistic iconography – may be interpreted in a contemporary context of women’s issues or as a matriarchal figure embodying the world’s suffering. The “Shrine of the Angels” series utilizes color p...
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    14,98 €