David Sandlin
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David Sandlin is a Northern Irish
-born American artist. His drawings, prints, paintings, and installations are in private and public collections worldwide, and his limited-edition artist's books are in the collections of several prominent libraries, including those of the Museum of Modern Art
, New York University, and Bard College. He has been the recipient of grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Swann Foundation, and the Penny McCall Foundation. In 2010, Sandlin was awarded a fellowship at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.
Since he began his professional career as an artist in the 1980s, visual narrative has been a core component of his work. In addition to painting and printmaking, since 1995 Sandlin has worked on a book series, A Sinner’s Progress, in various formats ranging from hand-silkscreened editions to an abecedarium published by Fantagraphics. Sandlin is also well known for his illustration work for The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, and other periodicals. His comics have been published in many anthologies, including Raw and The Best American Comics 2009, edited by Charles Burns. He lives and works in New York City.
, Northern Ireland, of an Northern Irish mother and American father, who had met and married in Belfast during the Second World War. The family immigrated to the U.S. in 1972, relocating in rural Alabama
, 60 miles from Birmingham
.
After graduating from high school, Sandlin moved to Birmingham and worked his way through college at the University of Alabama-Birmingham. Both his childhood in a strife-torn Protestant neighborhood on the Shankill Road in Belfast and the abrupt move from a relatively cosmopolitan European city to an isolated Bible Belt
town in north Alabama defined Sandlin's artistic outlook. "http://www.davidsandlin.com
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland is one of the four countries of the United Kingdom. Situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, it shares a border with the Republic of Ireland to the south and west...
-born American artist. His drawings, prints, paintings, and installations are in private and public collections worldwide, and his limited-edition artist's books are in the collections of several prominent libraries, including those of the Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world...
, New York University, and Bard College. He has been the recipient of grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the Swann Foundation, and the Penny McCall Foundation. In 2010, Sandlin was awarded a fellowship at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.
Since he began his professional career as an artist in the 1980s, visual narrative has been a core component of his work. In addition to painting and printmaking, since 1995 Sandlin has worked on a book series, A Sinner’s Progress, in various formats ranging from hand-silkscreened editions to an abecedarium published by Fantagraphics. Sandlin is also well known for his illustration work for The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harper’s Magazine, and other periodicals. His comics have been published in many anthologies, including Raw and The Best American Comics 2009, edited by Charles Burns. He lives and works in New York City.
Early life
David Sandlin was born in 1956, in BelfastBelfast
Belfast is the capital of and largest city in Northern Ireland. By population, it is the 14th biggest city in the United Kingdom and second biggest on the island of Ireland . It is the seat of the devolved government and legislative Northern Ireland Assembly...
, Northern Ireland, of an Northern Irish mother and American father, who had met and married in Belfast during the Second World War. The family immigrated to the U.S. in 1972, relocating in rural Alabama
Alabama
Alabama is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west. Alabama ranks 30th in total land area and ranks second in the size of its inland...
, 60 miles from Birmingham
Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...
.
After graduating from high school, Sandlin moved to Birmingham and worked his way through college at the University of Alabama-Birmingham. Both his childhood in a strife-torn Protestant neighborhood on the Shankill Road in Belfast and the abrupt move from a relatively cosmopolitan European city to an isolated Bible Belt
Bible Belt
Bible Belt is an informal term for a region in the southeastern and south-central United States in which socially conservative evangelical Protestantism is a significant part of the culture and Christian church attendance across the denominations is generally higher than the nation's average.The...
town in north Alabama defined Sandlin's artistic outlook. "http://www.davidsandlin.com