Draft:Jo Sandman

Jo Sandman (born March 22, 1931) is an American artist who embraced experimentation thatse career is defined by experimentation as she moved from abstract expressionist painting in the 1950s and 1960s towards conceptual minimalism and installation in the 1970s and 1980s and finally into photographic work in the late 1990s and 2000s.

was not only witness to the experimentation that shaped mid to late 20th century art, but also an active participant. A student of both Hans Hofmann and Robert Motherwell, she was in residence at Black Mountain College with Robert Rauschenberg and Cy Twombly and later worked for Walter Gropius. Trained as a painter, she went on to create innovative drawings, photography, experimental sculpture and installation works, which were exhibited widely and are now in permanent museum collections, including that of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and numerous others. Significant awards include fellowships from the Massachusetts Arts Council and the Bunting Institute at Harvard, as well as grants from the NEA and the Rockefeller Foundation. Over the course of a long career, she exhibited widely and has been recently featured in a 2022 retrospective Jo Sandman: Traces at the Black Mountain College Museum in Asheville, NC; the 2022 two person exhibition Helen Frankenthaler and Jo Sandman/Without Limits; and currently in the 2023 Women in Abstraction exhibition on view at the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, MA.