BIO

Born in Malacca, Malaysia, now lives and works in Malden (North of Boston), Massachusetts, USA.

Soh H. Tan Kalloch, known by the nickname Sand T, graduated from Tufts University and the Museum School with a Masters of Fine Arts Degree. Her working mediums are paintings, installations, 2D and 3D mixed media works. She has participated in group shows in New York, Iowa, Chicago, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Malaysia, and Taiwan.

Sand T was awarded FIRST PLACE by Nick Capasso, acting director of the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park of Lincoln, MA for “Negotiating the Irrationalities” Series submission to a juried show in November 2007.

Her recent awards include “The Malden YWCA Tribute to Women Award 2007″, grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the LEF Foundation.

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STATEMENT

Sand T uses a combination of resin, graphite, spray paint and film on Plexiglas panels and masonite board for this new body of mixed media works. The primary intention of this body of work is to create a simple visual experience with the basic elements of dot, line, surface and light.

The placement of the resin drops on these panels was semi-intentional until a �visual plane� emerged. Visual balance and order in this new plane creates a structure that invites viewers to contemplate a state of vagueness that falls somewhere in the sequence of becoming, evolving, multiplying and ending.

Many viewers have expanded their imaginations beyond the dots/drops on these surfaces. Some relating the work to Braille, rain drops, mysterious coding, constellation, or a scientific investigation on virus or bacteria.

The use of random and concise primary elements, the dots and lines, does not speak of politics or culture. Rather, they suggest time, concentration, and energies of motion possessing meditative qualities that are continual through this work.

The physicality of �dropping the dots� underlines the artist�s fixation with chaos; the keen desire to bring order within the structural grid. The artist�s attempts to control randomness have served as a unifying factor in this body of work that is otherwise free in form. Time consuming and labor intensive, this working process assists the artist in originating her aesthetic ideals and values.

Please visit http://mysite.verizon.net/studio.sand/ to learn more about Sand T’s “Negotiating the Irrationalities’ series, exhibition history, and art reviews.

Website: Sand T
Contact email: studio.sand@verizon.net