Eve Sandler is a second-generation New York artist whose work encompasses many mediums. She is a painter, multi-media installation artist, filmmaker, jeweler and performer.
Eve's wearable pieces are highly sought after by collectors and have been featured in Vogue and Essence Magazines, Bergdorf Goodman, the Walters Art Museum and Horchow Catalogue. She mixes materials such as bronze, gold, brass and silver with semi-precious gem stones, crystals, porcupine quills and pearls, with vintage and rare beads from her collection gathered from around the world. In her artwork, Sandler has explored themes of black female experience, archetypes, ritual and the sacred. A decade ago she began a series of rose photographs that are now being shown for the very first time. They are deeply felt meditations on human experience that intimately reveal to us the inherent beauty of change and transformation in our lives. Eve's artwork has been exhibited in numerous museum shows including two at the Smithsonian Institution: "Resonant Forms: Contemporary Black Women Sculptors" and "Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas." She has shown at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, the Frans Hal Museum, Netherlands, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut, the Fowler Museum, Los Angeles, Rush Art Gallery, New York, and the Studio Museum in Harlem, where she was an Artist in Residence. Sandler has received numerous awards and fellowships for her work including grants from the Pollack-Krasner Foundation, The Beards Fund, Art Matters, New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) and a New York Foundation For The Arts (NYFA) Fellowship for Video. Sandler was an artist-in residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem, a visiting artist and lecturer at The School of The Art Institute in Chicago, The Mason Gross School of Art at Rutgers University and taught in the Painting Department at the State University of New York at Purchase. In her "High Maintenance" sculpture and installation series Sandler examines contemporary beauty culture using synthetic hair, fingernails, and other beauty supplies as materials. Curator Debra Willis-Kennedy wrote of this series that "Sandler creates a charged politicized environment." Pronounced "hilarious" by the Washington Post, these edgy works weave together hair-stories of adornment with politics of beauty, race and power. In a series of related sculptures, Sandler configures elegant totems of domestic unrest from steel wool, baby bottle nipples, feather dusters and other household paraphernalia.
In her role as an artist/activist, Sandler also creates dramatic forms of ritualized protest as street theater. She founded Women In Mourning And Outrage in response to the police killing of Amadou Diallo. Dressed in symbolic black veils, Women In Mourning And Outrage has been a vigilant and visible presence in New York City that has come to signify the grieving of mothers and sisters of those killed by acts of brutality. Hundreds of women have participated in their actions.
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