Tide/Poolby Kristen Sanders

Dreamsong is thrilled to present Tide / Pool, St. Paul-based artist Kristen Sanders’ second solo exhibition with the gallery. Referring to her paintings as ‘portraits,’ Sanders seeks to erode binary ontologies between mind and body, object and self, and even life and death. Depicting seashells, flint stone, barnacles, medical mannequins, and lines drawn in the sand, the paintings in Tide / Pool center crevices, cavities and voids in forms that evoke life through its explicit absence. Situating these objects on primordial beach fronts, Sanders posits that exoskeletons, tools, and fossils carry lasting psychic and biological meaning.

Kristen Sanders (b. 1989, California) lives and works in St. Paul, MN. She received a BA from the University of California Davis, and an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. Recent solo exhibitions include Protoself at Asya Geisberg Gallery (New York, NY), Infinite Beach at Dreamsong, Artifacts at Kiehle Gallery, St. Cloud State University (St. Cloud, MN) and Early Bodies at Kathryn Brennan Gallery (New York, NY). Recent group exhibitions include Goosebumps, currently on view at Anthony Gallery (Chicago, IL), Tinted Love at Good Mother (Los Angeles, CA) and Sagittarius at Night Club (St. Paul, MN). Residencies include The Moosey Residency (Norwich, UK), The Maple Terrace (Brooklyn, NY) and Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT). Sanders has received press in BOMB Magazine, ARTNews, and New American Paintings. She currently teaches at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.