Sandy graduated from the Alberta College of Art and Design in Printmaking and has continued to experiment across media, primarily painting and clay. Her paintings are held in public, private, and corporate collections worldwide.
Sandy paints on site, soaking up the spirit of the location. She loves how each session becomes a unique personal experience, and how that translates into the work. Her large-scale plein air and still life paintings are built from confident, expressive marks that form a representational image. The process is grounded—climate, terrain, and atmosphere shape the outcome.
In recent years, her work has expanded into more symbolic and conceptual territory. Series like Crème of the Crop and The Understory explore themes of nurture, sacrifice, and the unseen systems that sustain life. Abstracted udders, underground root networks, and mid-sized ceramic sculptures of her cows, Jelly Bean and Budders, appear throughout—embodying both care and cost, provision and letting go.
Her sculptural clay work offers a tactile extension of these ideas and a grounding counterpoint to her time in the barn.
Sandy paints on site, soaking up the spirit of the location. She loves how each session becomes a unique personal experience, and how that translates into the work. Her large-scale plein air and still life paintings are built from confident, expressive marks that form a representational image. The process is grounded—climate, terrain, and atmosphere shape the outcome.
In recent years, her work has expanded into more symbolic and conceptual territory. Series like Crème of the Crop and The Understory explore themes of nurture, sacrifice, and the unseen systems that sustain life. Abstracted udders, underground root networks, and mid-sized ceramic sculptures of her cows, Jelly Bean and Budders, appear throughout—embodying both care and cost, provision and letting go.
Her sculptural clay work offers a tactile extension of these ideas and a grounding counterpoint to her time in the barn.
Sandy Kunze — Inheritance
Presented alongside Royalty in the group exhibition The Understory', Sandy Kunze’s series Inheritance explores what lies beneath the surface—both literally and figuratively. Layers of brushstrokes veil and reveal traces of memory, industry, and connection. Like roots passing nutrients unseen, these paintings hint at hidden communication and quiet resilience. What stays buried, what breaks through, and what we choose to see--Inheritance asks us to consider the legacies we carry.
Presented alongside Royalty in the group exhibition The Understory', Sandy Kunze’s series Inheritance explores what lies beneath the surface—both literally and figuratively. Layers of brushstrokes veil and reveal traces of memory, industry, and connection. Like roots passing nutrients unseen, these paintings hint at hidden communication and quiet resilience. What stays buried, what breaks through, and what we choose to see--Inheritance asks us to consider the legacies we carry.
Beneath the Telling 40" x 40" acrylic on cradled board
Roots of the Crown 24" X 36" acrylic on canvas
Uprising 23" x 23" with black shadow frame
acrylic on wood panel |
Anchored in the Understory 23" x23" with black shadow frame acrylic on wood panel
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Matriarch 36" x 27 1/2" acrylic on canvas
Past Secrets 36" x 24" acrylic on canvas
TombStumps 23" x 23" with black shadow box frame
acrylic on wood panel |
Silently Shift Unearthed 23" x 23" with black shadow box frame acrylic on wood panel
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Also on view in the gallery
My Udder paintings
My Udder paintings
My Udder Painting
She's Got Horns
UnPasteurize
Hard to Reach
Basking in the Evening Setting Sun
Milky Way
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Life
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Field to Form
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