Isca Greenfield-Sanders


Isca Greenfield-Sanders is an American landscape painter based in New York City.

Early life

Greenfield-Sanders was born in New York City to lawyer, Karin and photographer, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. She grew up in New York City's East Village surrounded by artists, her paternal grandmother is concert pianist and teacher Ruth W. Greenfield, her maternal grandmother is Leider singer, Isca Sanders, her maternal grandfather is painter Joop Sanders, her sister is filmmaker, Liliana Greenfield-Sanders.
In 2000 she received a B.A. in math and a B.A. with honors in visual arts from Brown University. She was a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome in 2001. In 2003 she married artist Sebastian Blanck, with family friend Lou Reed officiating the wedding.

Career

Her work is in the public collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City, The Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, NY, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Museum Morsbroich in Leverkusen Germany and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, The Israel Museum, The McNay Art Museum, and The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Her print work with Paulson Fontaine Press started in 2006 and includes over 20 etchings. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco own full sets of all of her Paulson Fontaine prints.
In 2003 she created a project room at MOMA PS1. In 2005 Creative Time commissioned her to make a large scale billboard in Coney Island as a part of the Dreamland Artists Club. In 2016 Greenfield-Sanders partnered with the Children's Museum of the Arts to create four large outdoor murals for the New York City Parks Department for a playground in downtown New York City. At the end of the project, one of the panels was permanently installed at the Lerner Children’s Pavilion at the Hospital for Special Surgery. Another of the panels was gifted to the Administration for Children’s Services in New York City.

Work

Greenfield-Sanders is an American landscape painter known for her mixed media oil paintings and watercolors based on found photography.
Major essays on her work include: "Keep Them Still" Adam Gopnik, "Painting the Shifting Sands of Memory" Stacey Goergen, "Light Leaks" Nora Burnett Abrams, "Conversation: Chuck Close and Isca Greenfield-Sanders" Chuck Close, "Postcard" Lauri Firstenberg, and "Processes of Identification" Demetrio Paparoni.
Articles include: Saskia Randle, "Isca Greenfield-Sanders Creates Dreamy, Vintage-Inspired Paintings" Galerie Magazine, June 13, 2017, Molly Osberg, "Isca Greenfield-Sanders Captures Summer Days and the Beauty of Nostalgia" Artsy, Feb. 2016, Gill Saunders, "Prix De Print No. 5 Isca Greenfield-Sanders: Pikes Peak" Art in Print, May/June 2014, Susan Tallman, "Isca Greenfield-Sanders" Art in Print Vol. 2, No 2, July/August 2012, Leanne Goebel, "Isca Greenfield-Sanders and Marc Brandenburg" The Huffington Post, 2/2/2011, Meredith Mendelsohn, "Isca Greenfield-Sanders", ARTnews, January 2009, Emma Pearse, "Artist Isca Greenfield-Sanders Falls to Earth" NY Magazine, September 2008, Donald Kuspit, "Isca Greenfield-Sanders" ARTFORUM, November 2006, p. 300, Thomas W. Kuhn, "Isca and Timothy Greenfield-Sanders" ARTnews, November 2006, p. 202, Bridget L. Goodbody, "Isca Greenfield-Sanders" Time Out, September 2006, A.M. Homes, "Striking Oil" Vanity Fair, September 2006, Deborah Phillips, "Isca Greenfield-Sanders" ARTnews, December 2005, Randy Kennedy, "Flash, Dash and Now, Art" New York Times, June 17, 2005, Linda Yablonsky, "Painted Love" Time Out, June 16 – 20, 2005 p. 31, Carlo McCormick, "Crazy in Love, Valentines by our favorite artists" Paper Magazine, February 2005, p. 45, Amanda Coulson, "Isca Greenfield-Sanders" ARTnews, October 2003, p.152, Lauri Firstenberg, "Beachwood Park" Tema Celeste, July-August 2002, Joyce Korotkin, "Isca Greenfield-Sanders" NYArts, June 2002, and Tiziana Conti, "Isca Greenfield-Sanders" Tema Celeste, September 2000.