sandra spannan

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SANDRA SPANNAN/JARVIS,a native German, is a painter, performance artist, actress/model and founder of see. painting, inc (<a href="http://www.see-painting.com">www.see-painting.com</a>) Born 1971 in Germany, Sandra Spannan studied art, design and art history at he University and Fachhochschule of Wuerzburg, Germany and in different workshops, classes and internships throughout Europe and New York. She has lived in New York for ten years and has been involved in various art projects and exhibitions. Some past performances include: Participation in Vanessa Beecroft's first NYC performance at Deitch Gallery in Soho; a Valentines day painting performance sponsored by EXIT ART Gallery, NYC as part of the "Love a Commuter" project; the "power portraits" in the 42nd Street Chashama Theatre window (the Oasis series) and the WTC memorial "guerilla" mural/installation "searching for sense." she created in lower Manhattan in October 2001 which is the subject of a short documentary film of the same name. This film (produced by Sandra Spannan, directed by Katja Esson) has been shown in several national film festivals, on Swiss television, in a one month show in the Gallery space at "the Kitchen" in Chelsea and was featured many times on Channel 13 and Metro Channel in the U.S. "pieceportraits." is an ongoing interactive live Painting performance in empty Store front windows in New York. She has painted the faces of over 260 New Yorkers during this ongoing process, and is planning on doing at least 500 in the year 2003 in other neighbourhoods, which will be shown in an exhibition and published in a photobook eventually. Her artwork was shown in designer showcases and art exhibitions in Berlin, Nuernberg, Kassel, Wuerzburg and New York. In 1996, she designed and painted the large outdoor mural for the German House, opposite the UN. Sandra has been featured in various publications including the "Esquire magazine"; "American Vogue"; Italian travel/fashion magazine "Gulliver"; Honda catalogues, and various other publications as well as independent films and the soap opera "Guiding Lights". Aspects of her work and life have been featured in "Architectural Digest"; "Interior Design"; "Design Times"; "Traditional Building"; "Woman's Day"; the Japanese Shiseido ArtMagazine "Hanatsubaki"; "Paper" and "Time Out". German publications include "Berliner Morgenpost"; "ALEGRA Magazine"; "New Yorker Staatszeitung"; "German Life" and several national and local City Magazines, Newspapers, German Radio and TV Stations.