Sandra Banava

Sandra Banava is a Fine Artist, Graphic and Editorial Designer based in San Francisco. Sandra holds a BA in Fine Arts from San Francisco State University and has explored a variety of studio environments in a number of media such as oil & acrylic painting, printmaking, watercolor, and digital. Sandra has designed a variety of editorials such as catalogues, periodicals, collaterals, and books for educational and art organizations as well as individuals. She enjoys editorial design and finds it a beautiful and powerful medium in integrating literary and visual arts. For more than 20 years, Sandra has designed rich collections of prints, patterns, and weaves for the home furnishing industry and has collaborated with interior decorators, fashion designers, prop artists, and global and U.S. manufacturers. Sandra's textile designs have been featured in U.S. and Australian publications and her fine art work has been exhibited in San Francisco Bay area galleries including the Fort Mason, San Francisco and online Ūd Gallery. As a dancer with training in Improv, Modern, Ballet, West African, and Classical & Folkloric Persian, Sandra's visual art is influenced by works of dancers and poets. She utilizes poetry as a linguistic tool in creating non-verbal and visceral imagery. Her abstract paintings, mixed media, and textile arts are multitudinous layers of marks, pigments, and stitches—nuanced with hidden poems. She has worked on canvases, paper and more recently focuses on large-scale fabric installations.