Artist Statement

A violin collaged with candy and coffee wrappers, sudoku puzzles, and painted fibonacci numbers. Some of my obsessions.

The ratio of each successive pair of numbers in the fibonacci series has the ratio of 1.618... which in mathematics is called "phi". This numeric sequence is related to musical scales and harmonics, so seemed a good way to combine my artistic skills with my violin.

After graduating with honors from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, Sandra Kaplan spent several years living in New York and studying philosophy at the Graduate Center in Manhattan. She spent a year traveling through Southeast Asia before moving to Denver, Colorado, in 1971. She has an extensive exhibition history, with solo shows across the US, from NYC to LA. Her work may be found in corporate and private collections throughout the United States, as well as in Stockholm, Saudi Arabia, Dubai, Hong Kong, and Japan. Sandra currently is on the faculty of the Art Students' League of Denver, and for 5 years was Secretary of the Board of the Museum of Contemporary Art/ Denver. She has served on the National Endowment for the Arts Grant Selection Panels for the Visual Arts, and for Museums.