Sandra Payne (artist) explained
Sandra Payne |
Birth Date: | 1951 |
Birth Place: | St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
Death Date: | July 3, 2021 |
Death Place: | St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
Burial Place: | Calvary Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
Education: | Washington University University of South Florida Long Island University |
Occupation: | Visual artist, librarian |
Known For: | Collagist, sculptor, conceptual artist |
Sandra Payne (1951 – 2021) was an American visual artist.[1] She is best known as a collagist, sculptor, conceptual artist, and had also worked as a librarian.[2] [3] Payne primarily had lived in New York City and St. Louis.
Biography
Sandra Payne was born in 1951 in St. Louis, Missouri, into a black family.[4] [5] She attended Washington University in St. Louis (BFA degree); University of South Florida (MFA degree); and Long Island University (MLIS degree).[6] [7] In the 1970s, she was awarded study at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. For 30 years she worked as a librarian for the New York Public Library in New York City.[8] She never married or had children.[9]
In 1986, Payne had a solo exhibition at the "Just Above Midtown" gallery where she displayed sexual and nude drawings, this was the last exhibition before the black avant-garde gallery closed.[10] [11]
She died on July 3, 2021.[12] Her artwork can be found in the museum collection at the Museum of Modern Art.[13]
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
- 1986, "Sandra Payne", solo exhibition, Just Above Midtown/Downtown Gallery, New York City, New York
- 1998, "Sandra Payne", solo exhibition, Mary Delahoyd Gallery, New York City, New York
- 2001, "Sandra Payne", solo exhibition, Mary Delahoyd Gallery, New York City, New York
- 2022, " A World of Shine", solo retrospective, projects+gallery, St. Louis, Missouri[14]
Group exhibitions
- 1973, "Black Photographers", group exhibition, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, Illinois[15]
- 1981, "The Shaped Field: Eccentric Formats", group exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York
- 1981, "Cynthia Hawkins & Sandra Payne", two person exhibition, Just Above Midtown, New York City, New York[16]
- 1981, "The Shaped Field: Eccentric Formats", group exhibition, MoMA PS1, Queens, New York City, New York
- 1983, "Consumer Beware", group exhibition, group exhibition, Women's Interart Center, New York City, New York
- 1986, "Progressions: A Cultural Legacy", group exhibition, Museum of Modern Art (and/or MoMA PS1), New York City, New York; sponsored by Women's Caucus for Art "as a tribute to black women pioneers in the visual arts and their many talented descendants"
- 1986, "Transitions: The Afro-American Artist", group exhibition, Bergen County Museum of Art and Science (now Bergen Museum of Art & Science), Paramus, New Jersey
- 1991, "Race and Culture", group exhibition, 494 Gallery and City College of New York, New York City, New York
- 2001, "All That Glitters", group exhibition, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York City, New York
- 2022–2023, "Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces", group exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York
See also
Notes and References
- Book: Gumbo Ya Ya: Anthology of Contemporary African-American Women Artists . 1995 . Midmarch Arts Press . 978-1-877675-07-2 . en.
- News: 2001-10-05 . Art Guide . en-US . . 2023-06-26 . 0362-4331.
- Web site: Haddad . Natalie . G’Sell . Eileen . 2022-10-18 . Sandra Payne's Bling Manifesto . 2023-06-26 . . en-US.
- Book: Heresies . 1981 . Heresies Collective, Incorporated . en . 13–16.
- Book: Woman's Art Journal . 1982 . Woman's Art . 3 . 20 . en.
- Web site: Sandra Payne . 2023-06-26 . projects+gallery . en-US.
- Book: Smith, Henrietta M. . The Coretta Scott King Awards, 1970-2009 . 2009-06-29 . American Library Association . 978-0-8389-3584-2 . 108 . en.
- News: 2004-04-25 . Sandra Payne . 147 . . 2023-06-26.
- News: Hartocollis . Anemona . 2003-12-24 . Public Lives; Beyoncé's Blaring, So You Won't Hear a Shhh! . en-US . . 2023-06-26 . 0362-4331.
- Book: Kester, Grant H. . Art, Activism, and Oppositionality: Essays from Afterimage . 1998 . Duke University Press . 978-0-8223-2095-1 . 273 . en.
- Book: O'Grady, Lorraine . Writing in Space, 1973–2019 . 2020-09-21 . Duke University Press . 978-1-4780-1265-8 . 99 . en.
- Web site: July 11, 2021 . Sandra Payne Obituary (2021) - New York, NY . 2023-06-26 . Legacy.com . The New York Times.
- Web site: Sandra Payne . 2023-06-26 . The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) . en.
- Web site: 2022-05-09 . projects+gallery's new exhibition shows us how to cover our walls in art . 2023-06-26 . StlMag.com . en-us.
- Web site: Payne, Sandra. (b. St. Louis, MO, 1951; active New York, NY, 2007) . https://wayback.archive-it.org/4472/20210304100228/http://216.197.120.164/artistbibliog.cfm?id=1876 . March 4, 2021 . African American Visual Artists Database (AAVAD).
- Book: The International Review of African American Art . 1993 . Museum of African American Art . 54 . en.