Artist Profile

Sandra Fine Art

Acrylics, oils, tempera and watercolors

Artist Profile

Sandra is a graduate architect who merged into the world of expressionistic painting and plastic media. In addition to her professional experience with major architectural and construction firms in Dade County as Designer and Project Coordinator, she has always maintained a growing portfolio of original artwork with an edge on watercolors and acrylics.

A self-taught artist who was always a painter at heart, her family had to hide watercolors and tempera from her reach when she was a toddler to prevent her excessive creativity from decorating her bedroom walls.

Her approach is simple and direct: Get inspired by color you perceive from nature, let your imagination go, and the painting will flow. Be it a photograph, a sketch, a certain view from a window, that is enough to get her started and complete another vivid image. She draws strength and inspiration from her daughter and family, and the majority of her work includes people.

As a low-key artist who never has promoted herself on a commercial basis, she prefers to keep her work private and give it to family and friends as presents during special occasions in the form of paintings, original greeting cards, decorated cigar and jewelry boxes, and other personalized items. After encouragement from numerous acquaintances, other artists, and professionals, she has decided to offer original and limited editions of her work.

EDUCATION
Master of Architecture, University of Havana (ISJAE), Cuba (1980)
First Place Award - "Forum for Multifamily Development, Havana, Cuba (1979)

Awards and Exhibitions

EXHIBITIONS AND SHOWS
· Selected Artist, Sixth Sister Cities Art Exhibit at Tower Theater, Miami Dade County (2008)

· "Well Dressed Mango" Group Show @ miArte Gallery - Coral Gables,Fl (July -August 2006)

· "Las Olas Rocks”, Award Winning Artists painted Rocking Chairs Auction for Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital, Fort Lauderdale, Fl (2004) Chair #69--click http://www.lasolasrocks.com/chairs2.htm

· Las Olas Fine Art Center, Fort Lauderdale, Fl (2004)

· South Miami Fine Arts Festival, Florida (2004)

· Brickell Key Arts Festival, Miami, Florida (2004)

· Latin Quarters Cultural Center, Miami, Florida (2004)

· "Hispanic Art Expressions 2004", Dade County Hispanic Affairs Cultural Committee, Fl (2004)

· "Saturday & Sunday in the Park with Art", Coral Reef Park, Palmetto Bay, Fl (2004)

· "A Night of Arts in Bongos”, Silent Auction, Genesis Artists for AIDS, Miami, Fl (2004)

· Transit Lounge, Miami, Florida (2004)

· "Children in the Tropics", Casa Juancho, Miami, Fl (2004)

· Biltmore Hotel Private Exhibition, Coral Gables, Florida (2004)

· “Hialeah Arts Showcase”, 2004, Florida (2004)

· “Art in the Tropics”, Merrick Festival, Coral Gables, Florida (2004)

· "Art Festival in the Pines", Pembroke Pines, Florida (2004)

· Pinecrest gARTens Fine Arts Festival, Pinecrest (2004)

· Allison Gallery, Miami, Florida (2004)

· "Women in the Arts, 2004", Latin Art Museum, Miami, Fl (2004)

· Artist in Residence, Latin Art Museum (2004)

· “One Woman Show”, Union Planters Bank, Coral Gables, Fl (2003 & 2004)

· “One Woman Show”, CitiBank at Key Biscayne (2003)

· Camelia’s Place at Calle Ocho, Miami, Florida (2003)

· Te Té Restaurant, Miami, Florida (2003)

· Café Tu Tu Tango, Coconut Grove, Florida(2003)

· Flagami Art Festival, Miami, Florida (2002)

· "Artist of the Month”, Viernes Culturales, Hispanic Month Celebration (Oct’ 2002)

· “Artists Work Expo”, Private Gallery at Design District, Miami, Fl (1985)

AWARDS

· Selected Artist, one of forty artists selected for "Hispanic Art Expressions 2009" by Dade County Hispanic Affairs Cultural Committee, Miami, Florida (Selected from 2004 through 2009)

· First Place, Fine Arts Acrylics and Oils, Pembroke Pines "Art in the Pines", Florida (2004)

· Third Place, Painting - South Miami Fine Arts Festival, South Miami, Florida (2004)

· Third Place, Painting, Hialeah Arts Showcase, Hialeah, Florida (2004)

· "Untitled”- Original photograph published in “America at the Millennium – Best Photos of the 20th Century” (2000)

· "Symphony in Red”- Original photograph published in “Best Photos 2000” (2000)

· Untitled” - Original photograph published in “Everlasting Moments” (1999)

· First Place - Forum for Multifamily Development, Havana, Cuba (1979)