Sandy Kinnee, Abstract Modernist Colorful Mixed Media Painting Handmade Paper, c.1980's

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Sandy Kinnee is known for paper making, printmaking and collage.
This has the artists stamp verso and is signed, titled … Read more Sandy Kinnee is known for paper making, printmaking and collage.
This has the artists stamp verso and is signed, titled and dated verso.

Sandy Kinnee lives and works in Colorado Springs, CO. Kinnee was born on March, 30, 1947 in Port Huron, MI. He received his BFA from the University of Michigan in 1969 and MFA from Wayne State University in 1976. Kinnee has taught at Colorado College, the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs and the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center. Sandy Kinnee was awarded a Pollack-Krasner Foundation grant. His work bears some surface similarities to Sam Francis and Alan Shields works. This has the feel of the Pattern and Decoration art movement.

His print works are represented in numerous public and private collections including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT, Swissair, Zurich, CH
Suchard Chocolate, Walt Disney World (Michael Graves designed Hotel, at), Westinghouse Art Collection, General Mills Art Collection.

Select Solo Exhibitions
2019 Buell Theatre, Denver, CO
2019 McNichol’s Building, Denver, CO
2019 William Havu Gallery, Denver, CO
2017 Special Collections, Tutt Library, Colorado Springs, CO
2002 Visual Arts Gallery, Central Arizona College, Coolidge, AZ
1999 Art Selection, Zurich, Switzerland

Select Group Exhibitions
2015 “Director’s Favorites: 1999–2015”, New Britain Museum of American Art, CT.
2008 “The Imbedded Image – Current Work In Hand Papermaking”, St. Louis, MO.
1999 Art Multiple, Dusseldorf, Germany
1999 SAGA/FICA Edition, Paris, France
1996 Kunstmessig, Olso, Norway
1994 Dresden Art Fair, Dresden, Germany
1993 Dusseldorf, Germany
1992 “Four Americans” Art Selection, Zurich, Switzerland
1990 Alumni Exhibition, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
1989 Virginia Miller Galleries, Coral Gables, FL
1984 “Watercolors”, Cunningham Memorial Art Gallery, Bakersfield, CA
1984 “Paper Transformed: A National Exhibition of Paper Art”, Terre Haute, IN
1984 “Paperworks”, Academy of Art College Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1983 “Fan and Kimono”, Kauffman Galleries, Houston, TX
1980 “In Celebration of Prints”, The Philadelphia Art Alliance, PA
1980 “Selected Prints”, Educational Testing Services, Princeton, NJ
1980 “Ten Western Printmakers”, a Traveling Exhibition, organized by WSAF
1980 “Its Pure Paper”, Lake Placid School of Art, Lake Placid, NY
1980 “Fire and Water”, Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY
1979 “Fans”, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
1978 “Paper as Medium”, traveling exhibition, organized by the Smithsonian Institution
1977 “Works on Handmade Paper”, National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC
1977 “Paper Art”, Land Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, CA
1976 “Works on Handmade Paper”, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
A prestigious exhibition where his work hung alongside Jim Dine, Sam Gilliam, David Hockney, Jasper Johns, Robert Motherwell, Louise Nevelson, Robert Rauschenberg and Frank Stella.
1976 Boston Printmakers, Boston, MA
1975 “16 Contemporary Printmakers”, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY
1975 “LA National Print”, Los Angeles Print Club, CA
1970 “S.W.31”, Windsor Art Museum, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
1970 – 1976 “Sarnia Look”, Sarnia Art Gallery, Sarnia, Ontario, Canada
1970 “Students of Emil Weddige”, Mankato State University, Mankato, MN See less