“Venus Lives” & “Dos Madres”

Sandra Cavanagh

Maintaining a consistent practice, Sandra Cavanagh has developed a large portfolio of work including paintings, drawings and prints. She sustains a mostly narrative focus, often as a reaction to sociopolitical events with the intention of codifying ideas and feelings. Within this development, various subjects recur such as the mythological feminine as a vehicle to explore patriarchal brutality and its weight on the collective, the consideration of mortality and the loss of innocence in transgenerational stories, and visceral reactions both to memories and events of current general concern. She often worked in series creating pictorial storylines with some urgency to exhaust the subject and form to the point of understanding or unburdening herself of it. The result is an annotation of feelings underscoring a dramatic approach to form and message.

“Venus Lives”

Sandra Cavanagh