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A versatile and prolific
artist since 1970, Sandra Wasko-Flood's prints
and photos, sculpture and large interactive
installations, use expressionistic figures to
focus on psycho-spiritual themes. Her symbols
of goddesses and totems; wheels, spirals and
labyrinths -- celebrate life's cycles --the
stillness and the dance, the darkness and the
light.
Having
begun her career with studies at the University
of California, Los Angeles, she studied at the
Museo do Arte Moderno in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
and did graduate work in printmaking at the
University of Wisconsin, Madison. She cites
as major influences her three years sojourn
in the exotic city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil;
numerous trips to the American Southwest, especially
Chaco Canyon, New
Mexico; and the stimulus of life in the nation's
Capitol.
One of the first to give
classes in monotype, she also teaches photo
etching, and safe etching to children and adults.
Her prints are in such local collections as
the Library of Congress, the Corcoran Gallery
of Art, and the National Museum of Women in
the Arts; and internationally in the Modern
Art Museum in Buenos Aires, and the Pushkin
Museum in Moscow.
In 1994, she exhibited
her first interactive installation, "Dance
of the Labyrinth" at Gallery 10 in Washington
D.C., and received an Individual Artists Fellowship
of $5,000 from the Virginia Commission in the
Arts to continue work on it. This participatory
art, technological and spiritual, brings the
archetype of the labyrinth into the 21st century
with computer programmed lights, and photo transparencies
under glass designed to be walked. Presently
installed at her DC studio, and open to the
public by appointment, her goal is to establish
"Dance of the Labyrinth" as a permanent
center for meditation and creativity, research
and education.
Feeling now compelled
to make labyrinths part of her life's mission,
she receives public and private commissions
to design and build them. She recently designed
a labyrinth meditation wheel for the Potomac
Hospital in Woodbridge, Virginia and is painting
canvas and playground labyrinths with children
in the DC schools through a grant from the DC
Commission on the Arts and Humanities. As a
founding member of the Labyrinth Society, she
directed its inaugural traveling show, "Labyrinths
for Peace: 2000" first exhibited in the Cannon
Rotunda of the House of Representatives, Washington
DC. Concurrently, she organized a "demonstration
for inner peace" with opportunities to
walk canvas and flag labyrinths on the east
lawn of the U.S. Capitol.
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