Sandie Bacon
Artist • Teacher • Visionary

Sandie Bacon is a Chicago based visual artist who works primarily as a painter, but often ventures into mixed media and sculpture. She shows in galleries nationwide and is included in corporate collections such as the William Blair Foundation , and  the Chicago Department of the Environment and has a piece in Bill Clinton’s Harlem office. She paints murals in both public spaces(restaurants, grocery stores, designer showrooms, museums) and in private residences, as well as being a scenic charge artist for the Citadel Theater. She has also won numerous public art commissions including recently at Artprize in Grand Rapids, Michigan to Chicago Sculpture International.

Trained as a specialist in acrylic, oil and watercolor paints, Sandie is a Working Artist for Golden Artist Colors since 2007. She teaches workshops and lectures on paints for colleges, artist groups and retail stores She also is a Silver Brush educator and works on lesson plans for Grafix.

She has a BFA in fine arts /literature from Johnston College in Redlands, California and a MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore , Md. She lived in NYC for 12 years where she worked as an artist in the schools for Project LEAP, and was on the board for CityArts Workshop.

My artwork spans many decades, and incorporates many of the diverse influences I have experienced in my creative journey. I think of each series as a “snakeskin”, a collection of images, colors, shapes and words that refer to those moments in time. The thread that holds them together is the sense that you are all that you ever were, when you “shed” your skin you are both evolving and remembering. You are both who you are and who you are becoming

I am influenced by cross cultural mythology, literature, popular culture and the natural world. I aways go back to gesture drawing and painting from life as a way to capture an intuitive sense of identity. In my painted sculpture and installations I refer to the natural world and environment. I am also drawn to materials: rust, grit, transparencies and reflections, and the myriad of ways to work with paints. Color and texture.