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Sandra Golbert

Sandra Golbert Art

www.fiberarte.com

 

Member profile details

Membership level
Artist (Senior)
First Name
Sandra
Last name
Golbert
Business/Organization Name
Sandra Golbert Art
 

Personal information

Directory listing text
Sandra accepts commissions for residences or public spaces. Samples of these may be seen on her website. She also has many workshops available.
 

Artist Info

Medium / Media
  • Painting / Drawing
  • Mixed Media / Assemblage
  • Literature
  • Fiber
  • Sculpture
  • Jewelry
Artist Bio or Résumé
SANDRA GOLBERT BIO 2024
www.fiberarte.com

Solo Exhibits:


"Fabrications" - Nashua Library - May -June 28, 2023
“Threads by Three” – Arlington, MA - with Kendra Dowd, Beverly Hinckley 2017 - 2018 - 2021
“Threads by Three” – Melrose, MA - with Kendra Dowd, Beverly Hinckley 2016
"Thinking Inside and Outside the Box" - Marblehead Art Assoc. 2012
"Monte y Mar; a fanciful look at the mountains and seas of Puerto Rico "
(with Jean Matos) - Belskie Museum, NJ - 2008
“Potpourri” – Ramsey, NJ 2003
“art from my first 1000 years” – Presbyterian Church of Franklin Lakes, NJ - 1999
“Paper, Silk and Shadow” - Interchurch Center NYC - 1998
“Art for Body and Wall” - San Juan, Puerto Rico 1998, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2006
Retrospective - Old Church Cultural Center Demarest, NJ 1997
“Fibers” - John Harms Center - Englewood, NJ - 1994
“Origenes-Origins” - Art Student League Gallery San Juan, PR 1990
Fortaleza Governor’s Mansion Gallery - San Juan, PR - 1984
Curacao Museum - Curacao, Netherland Antilles - 1974

Juried Group:

Exhibits:(partial):

TSGNY* – American Craft Museum, NYC (traveled for 3 yrs.) 2012
Wearable Art - LynnArts – MA - 2009
Nat’l Assoc. of Women Artists - Athens, Greece - 1996
Annual NAWA Exhibit - Soho, NY (Sculpture Award) - 1995
Catherine Lorillard Art Club - New York, NY - 1993

Awards
Turkeyland Cove Foundation - Residency 2022
Turkeyland Cove Foundation - Residency 2018
Weir Farm Trust - Residency - January 2000
Gottlieb Foundation - Emergency Grant 1999
Change - Emergency Grant 1999
NY Foundation for the Arts - Grant - 1998
Empire State Craft Alliance - Grant - 1997
Millay Colony for the Arts - Residency - 1993 & 2009
Pollock-Krasner Foundation - Grant - 1991
National Endowment for the Arts - Grant - 1991

Publications:
Fiber Art Now
Architectural Digest
Fiberarts
Surface Design Journal
Polymer Café
Vogue
Origen - Puerto Rico
Who’s Who of American Women
Who’s Who of American Artists
Commissions:

La Concha Hotel – San Juan, PR
Swissotel - Chicago, IL
El San Juan Hotel, San Juan, PR
US Consulate, Curacao, NA
Condado Plaza Hotel, San Juan, PR
Fedders, NV, Curacao, NA
Holiday Inn, San Juan, PR
Pierre Hotel, San Juan, PR
other residencies & businesses

Education:

Self-taught Workshops: Sheila Hicks (3 workshops) - Walter Nottingham (2)
Warren Seelig - Vera Lightstone (4) & others
Artist Statement
My work is in Fiber, mostly hand-made paper, hand-dyed silk, surface design and fabric manipulation.

I began working with fabric many years ago as a child, when I designed and made dolls’ clothes! Then I went on to design costumes and clothing for "real people", and in 1959, my designs appeared in Vogue magazine. When I no longer lived in the US, I could not work as a “seamstress/designer” since I was considered an alien, I began to put my fibers on the wall instead of the body, making intricately embroidered wall hangings and sculptures. I've seldom gone back to the body!

I returned to beading in 2000 when one of my designs was accepted in CowParadeNY2000. It was a completely beaded life-size fiberglass cow! Five hundred of them were shown on the streets of New York City and were later auctioned off for children's charities…. mine was sold for $17,000.00.

Through the years, I have received many grants, three residencies and much help from my children so that I might continue my work. Two of my pieces were chosen to be in an exhibit called “9x9x3” at the American Craft Museum in New York City and I have a piece in the Zimmerli Museum at Rutgers University in New Jersey in the permanent collection of the National Association of Women Artists. This collection contains eminent artists such as Mary Cassatt, Louise Nevelson and Judy Chicago. I am awed to be part of this amazing company.

My last large commission was for the lobby of La Concha Hotel in San Juan, PR. Eight glass cases, each 6’ x 6’, were installed in the lobby; each containing a colorful hanging. The entire project consists of almost 7000 small hand-painted silk pieces. It is shown in detail on my website, www.fiberarte.com.and in the August 2009 issue of Architectural Digest.

My work can be found in many countries, in residences, corporate offices and hotels in the US, the Caribbean, South America and in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where I was born.
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