Sande Webster Gallery

An exhibition of recent work by Merle Spandorfer comprised of digital archival ink jet prints that utilize painting, drawing, handmade paper, collage and laser printing. The essence of her work expresses the passage of time. She quotes P.B. Shelly, "Time is our consciousness of the succession of ideas in our mind." The flower, a metaphor for her concept, is shown as buds, in full bloom and even withered and dried. This transition, to the artist, has energy in time and space.

Biography

Merle Spandorfer's prints are in the permanent collections of over 100 museums and corporations including The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, NY, Whitney Museum of American Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Israel Museum, Baltimore Museum of Art, Reading Museum and Library of Congress. She has exhibited in 32 solo shows and more than 300 group exhibitions in museums, universities and galleries throughout the world. She received the Pennsylvania Education Association Outstanding Art Educator Award and co-authored MAKING ART SAFELY published by Van Nostrand Reinhold. She taught at Tyler School of Art , Pratt Institute, Cheltenham Center for the Arts.and lectured at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts, and the Sichuan Fine Art Institute in China.

Images: courtesy the artist.