Sandra Chevrier
Sandra Chevrier is a Canadian contemporary / pop urban artist, known for her captivating portraits of women from the Cages series. Born in 1983, Chevrier received her Bachelor's degree in visual and media arts from UQAM-L'Université du Québec à Montréal. As a self-taught artist, Chevrier first fell in love with art as a child. To her, art rapidly became a language on its own. At first, she drew sketches of eyes, all the time. This initial obsession is highly visible in her present work. Sandra likes to describe herself as a "gaze collector" and her work, a dichotomy or a dance between power and fragility, freedom and captivity, the poison and the cure. Her work is exhibited internationally and her artworks are now in art collections worldwide.
Sandra produces work ranging over vastly fluctuating emotional enigmas and concepts that have set the standard of our modern communication, exposing the limitations of our world; our self-imposed expectations and the cages we have allowed to bar us from the fullness of life's experience. With work demanding to be dissected beyond its surface value, Chevrier's portraits are quite literally torn between the fantastical heroics and iconography of comic books and the harsher underlying tragedy of oppressed female identity and the exposed superficial illusion it conveys.
In addition to exhibiting a male-dominated world within her 'Cages', Chevrier's subjects denounce the role given to the female counterpart therein, refusing to play the part of seducer or victim. In the greater body of Chevrier's work, the images used within the 'cages' range from scenes of conflict, triumph and defeat. They also represent the social limitations, which corrupt what truly is beautiful and lock women into prisons of highly-codified and narrow identities. By doing so, they are asked to become nothing short of superheroines. Sandra paints masterfully detailed portraiture, making her women seemingly emerge from a surreal world, onto the canvas, wherein a dance is performed between reality and imagination, truth and deception. The artist chooses to highlight the fragility of the superhero, their struggles and weaknesses, and exposes the humanity within the superhuman. Despite all the playfulness of the thing itself and all the "CRASH BAM POW," superheroes are also fragile. We are merely human men and women, and we are entitled to our flaws and errors.
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Sandra ChevrierSketch 2, 2024mixed media on Bristol velum paper
unframed 17 x 14 in22 1/4 x 19 1/4 in$ 3,100.00
56.5 x 48.9 cm -
Sandra ChevrierSketch 5, 2024mixed media on Bristol velum paper
unframed 17 x 14 in22 1/4 x 19 1/4 in$ 3,100.00
56.5 x 48.9 cm -
Sandra ChevrierLa cage dans ses pierres écroulantes, 2024mixed media on rice paper28 x 29 1/2 in$ 7,300.00
71.1 x 74.9 cm -
Sandra ChevrierLa cage dans une jungle de miroirs, 2024mixed media on rice paper28 x 29 1/2 in$ 7,300.00
71.1 x 74.9 cm -
Sandra ChevrierLa Cage et la lassitude de toutes les illusions, 2022acrylic on canvas30 x 48 in
76.2 x 121.9 cm -
Sandra ChevrierLa Cage, un seul espoir, 2023mixed media on paper, Strathmore watercolor paper mounted to wooden panel38 x 25 in
96.5 x 63.5 cm -
Sandra ChevrierLa Cage, dans une danse éternelle, 2023mixed media on paper, Strathmore watercolor paper mounted to wooden panel38 x 25 in
96.5 x 63.5 cm -
Sandra ChevrierLa Cage et l'équilibre du réel, 2023acrylic on canvas
unframed 36 x 48 in38 1/2 x 50 1/2 in
97.8 x 128.3 cm -
Sandra ChevrierLa Cage, tombent les pétales, 2023acrylic on canvas
unframed 36 x 60 in38 1/2 x 62 1/2 in
97.8 x 158.8 cm
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Art on Paper - 2024
September 5 - 8, 2024Harman Projects is pleased to announce we will exhibiting at Art on Paper 2024! Join us at Pier 36 on the Lower East Side where we will be featuring new...Read more -
Sandra Chevrier - Birds On Cages
May 4 - 25, 2024Harman Projects is pleased to announce Birds On Cages, a solo show by artist Sandra Chevrier. Artist Vernissage Book signing & print release: Saturday, May 11th 6pm to 8pm Gallery...Read more -
Art on Paper 2023
September 7 - 10, 2023Harman Projects is pleased to announce we will exhibiting at Art on Paper 2023! Join us at Pier 36 on the Lower East Side where we'll be exhibting new and...Read more -
CONTEXT: Art Miami 2022
November 29 - December 4, 2022Harman Projects is pleased to announce we will be located at booth A15 at CONTEXT: Art Miami 2022! Address: The CONTEXT Art Miami Pavillion One Herald Plaza NE 14th...Read more
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Opening Night: Art on Paper 2024
September 10, 2024Gallery Associate Alexis DiRese, Founder Ken Hashimoto Harman and Director John Wilmes Opening Night: Art on Paper Fair Pier 36, New York City Thursday,...Read more -
Vernissage: Sandra Chevrier "Birds on Cages"
May 14, 2024We would like to thank everyone that came to the Vernissage and book signing of Sandra Chevrier's exhibition Birds on Cages! The show will run...Read more -
OPENING NIGHT: ART ON PAPER 2023
September 10, 2023Artist Huntz Liu Opening Night: Art on Paper Fair Pier 36, New York City Saturday, September 6th 2023 A huge thank you to everyone who...Read more