Profile: Sandra Neumann Wilderman
Acrylic • ArtistsSandra Neumann Wilderman was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and lived in the Midwest until 2003 when she moved to Arizona. Wilderman knew she wanted to be an artist since she was in elementary school while drawing maps and creating covers for her reports. She studied at The Toledo Museum of Art and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Northern Illinois University, School of Art in DeKalb, Illinois.
Wilderman’s work has received several awards, including 1st Place in 2009 for her body of work at the Art in the Red House at the Petersen House Museum in Tempe, Arizona. In 2009, she also received two 1st Place awards, in the watercolor and acrylic categories, at the Gilbert Visual Art League 7th Annual Fine Art Show at The Gilbert Historical Museum in Gilbert, Arizona. Wilderman has exhibited her art in national, juried shows including 24th Annual Arizona Aqueous Exhibition in Tubac, Arizona and in numerous group exhibitions including The 4th Annual Chicago Art Open in Chicago, Illinois and the Arizona Art Alliance Awaken Your Spirit Fine Art Exhibit at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts. Her solo exhibits include the Triangle Gallery at the Old Town Arts Center in Chicago, Illinois and Artlink Heritage Square Gallery in Phoenix, Arizona. Wilderman’s Corporate Collectors include Intel Corporation in Chandler, Arizona.
Wilderman’s approach to painting is to pour layers of acrylics or watercolor onto wet paper or canvas creating biomorphic shapes and linear sharpness. Her earliest poured paintings were bold and abstract followed by the atmospheric illusion series. After 9/11, she began experimenting with various techniques, formats and compositions and developed the symbolic paintings, which include the Tower, Cross and Flag Series. In 2003, she began weaving two poured paintings together to create a systematic, geometric and textural composition. And currently, she combines the processes of pouring and painting directly on canvas and paper with mixed media.
After painting directly with watercolors for more than 20 years Wilderman finds the spontaneity, the fluidity and the stylistic eclecticism of pouring acrylics and watercolors to be a freeing and spiritual experience. And it is through this process that she has found her voice.
To view Sandra’s paintings visit sandra-neumann-wilderman.fineartamerica.com and phoenixartspace.com/members/810. You can also contact her via email at snwildermanart@cox.net.
