Ochi Gallery is pleased to present Brittany Sanders, Wonder Series.  There will be an opening reception August 17, 6-9 PM at 350 Walnut Avenue.

Wonder Series is a collection of mesmerizing watercolors Sanders created to explore her longstanding fascination with the cosmos.  Painted using a laborious layering process with gouache and watercolor on Arches and Japanese Shojo-shi paper, Sanders achieves a striking sense of depth.  By forming an aura around miniscule dots of bare paper, even when working in a smaller scale, Sanders captures the mystery, movement, intelligence and wonder of the implicit order within the entirety of being.

Attributing Paul Klee’s Memory of a Bird, 1932 and the colored patchwork of Sonya Delaunay’s paintings as partial inspiration for this body of work, Sanders’ images are also reminiscent of the starscapes of Vija Celmins.  Making them her own, Sanders imbues her works with personal feelings about the mystery and unperceivable infiniteness of time and space.  In the process she evokes a collective memory of what is known, and unknown, about the immeasurable heavens.

Sanders says of her own work “I examine the two worlds we inhabit and move between – the surface reality and the depths of knowledge below, the temporal and the eternal, the world of perception and the underlying truth.”  Sanders most recent works capture these contradictions.  Simultaneously melancholy and hopeful, dreamy and concrete, fluid and still, the beauty of Sanders’ watercolors become profound in their depth and complexity.

Brittany Sanders graduated with honors from Brown University, with a double major in Comparative Literature and History of Art and Architecture. A producer of limited edition artist books as well, Sanders’ artwork has been exhibited and is in the permanent collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, The Getty Museum, The New York Public Library, Yale University and the Peter Norton Family Foundation among others. Sanders is from Los Angeles, and lives and works between Sun Valley, Idaho and New York City.