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Current Exhibitions. ”Imagine Fronts: The Great War and Global Media” - Los Angeles County Museum of Art - Dec. 3 - July 2024. “Duke’s Dream: Surfing’s Road to the Olympics” - International Surfing Museum, Huntington Beach, CA - March23 - Aug.. 2024.
- New Paintings for the U.S. Capitol Rotunda
After watching the events of January 6th unfold as rioters...
- LACMA Works 2022
A series of drawings and paintings inspired by Ed Ruscha’s...
- Los Angeles Y Sus Alrededores (L.Al. and Her Surroundings)
“LOS ANGELES Y SUS ALREDEDORES” (Los Angeles and Her...
- Recent Paintings
Recent Paintings. "Adrift on the Sea of Contagion". "The...
- American Procession
In Sandow Birk and Elyse Pignolet’s enormous print project...
- Trumpagruel
In 2019 the project was expanded with a series of colored...
- Imaginary Monuments
Imaginary Monuments. A series of large-scale drawings on...
- American Qur'an
From that starting point, Sandow Birk spent the past nine...
- New Paintings for the U.S. Capitol Rotunda
Sandow Birk (born 1962 in Detroit) is an American visual artist from Los Angeles whose work deals mainly with contemporary American culture. Eight books have been published on his works and he has made two films.
Los Angeles artist Sandow Birk is a well traveled graduate of the Otis/Parson's Art Institute. Frequently developed as expansive, multi-media projects, his works have dealt with contemporary life in its entirety.
Mar 27, 2020 · Recent Paintings. "Adrift on the Sea of Contagion". "The Arrival of the 'USNHS Mercy' in Los Angeles Harbor - March 27, 2020". "Where Covid Comes Ashore".
In drawings, paintings, sculptures, and ambitious long-term projects, Sandow Birk explores contemporary American life, particularly social and political issues such as inner city violence and prisons. He is best known for American Qu’ran, an ongoing ….
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Sandow Birk’s paintings embody the decaying spirit of modern times, and the dance between life and death in the city. The emotional gravity captured in his work reflects his admiration for the heroic paintings by old masters.
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Sandow Birk was born in Detroit, Michigan and raised on the beaches of Orange County, California. He is a graduate of the Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, and resides in Southern California.
