selections from
back on the streets
This series references inside/outside, physically and metaphorically: portraits of East Village and Los Angeles artist friends posed outdoors amidst the moneyed corridors of Wall Street in Back on the Streets (1982-85).
Selections of this work were included in New Museum Senior Curator, Dan Cameron’s exhibition East Village USA (first historical survey, December 2004 - March 2005) and first exhibited at Gracie Mansion Gallery.
“Hope Sandrow is extremely innovative in her use of the camera. Her carefully conceived compositions are chosen moments of a fleeting instance of motion, expression, light, location, and her own camera’s eye of perspective. Sandrow rigorously considers the multiple variations and qualities of all the picture’s elements; apparent spontaneity is but an effect of her craft. The primary concern of her portraits is hardly a resemblance to the subject for there is scarcely any, save on a remotely psychological level. The figure is a movable object, and compositionally related to the geometry, space, and emotional atmosphere of its contextual environment.”
— Carlo McCormick
See the exhibition and press list at the bottom of the page.
"Every Hero Needs a Woman," 1984, World Trade Center. Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Installation Gracie Mansion Gallery
"Futura, New York Man" From the series, New York Men, 1979, 11”x14” Silver Print, Edition of 5. Exhibited at The Famous Show, Gracie Mansion Gallery
"Nicolas Mouferrage, New York Man" From the series, New York Men, 1979, 11”x14” Silver Print, Edition of 5
"Nicolas Mouferrage, New York Man" From the series, New York Men, 1979, 11”x14” Silver Print, Edition of 5. Exhibited at The Famous Show, Gracie Mansion Gallery
"Keith Haring, New York Man" From the series, New York Men, 1979, 11”x14” Silver Print, Edition of 5. Exhibited at The Famous Show, Gracie Mansion Gallery
"Peter Hujar, New York Man" From the series, New York Men, 1979, 11”x14” Silver Print, Edition of 5. Exhibited at Gracie Mansion Gallery
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selected)
1985 Hope Sandrow Back on the Streets Zero One Gallery, Los Angeles
Hope Sandrow Back on the Streets Greathouse Gallery, NYC
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)
1982 The Famous Show included Hope Sandrow’s Back on the Streets, Nicolas Mouferrage, Keith Haring, and Lenny Futura at Gracie Mansion Gallery, curated by Gracie Mansion.
1985 The Discovery of America Wessel/O'Connor, Rome, Italy
East Village at the Au/Centre, Saidye Bronfman Center, Montreal, Canada
Three New York Artists, Vivianne Esters, Paris, France
East Village Sampler curated by Gracie Mansion, Jones Troyer Gallery, DC February
Knock Knock Who’s There, Gracie Mansion Gallery, May
London Art Fair, The London, Olympia England
Recommendations 85 curated by Stacey Teele Kamikaze, Jan
East Infection curated by Carlo McCormick Zero One Gallery, LA March
1984 *Neo York curated by Phyllis Plous and Mary Looker, University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara California
Cologne Art Fair, Cologne, West Germany
*East Village Art in Berlin Zellermayer Galerie, Berlin, 1984
Zurich Art Fair, Zurich Switzerland
Climbing: The East Village, curated by Carlo McCormick, Hal Bromm Gallery Jan 7 Feb 4
*Investigations: Face to Face, curated by Paula Marincola, Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, PA repro
The New Portrait, curated by Jeffrey Deitch, P.S.1, Long Island City, NY.
New Galleries of the Lower East Side, curated by Helene Winer, Artists Space NYC.
Limbo, curated by Walter Robinson and Carlo McCormick, MOMA/PS1
New Romance, curated by Regina Trapp, New Math Gallery, NYC Nov
Chill Out, curated by Steve Kaplan, Kenkeleba Gallery NYC
Romance & Catastrophe, curated by Regina Trapp and Michael Kohn, Zelle-Meyer Gallery Berlin
Antipasto, curated by John Wessel and Billy O’Connor, Kamikaze NY
Girls Night, curated by Stacey Teele, Kamikzaze NYC
Salon Oggi Domani, curated by T. Greathouse
Salon Des Artistes, Gracie Mansion Gallery
Portraits, curated by Mario Fernandez and Nina Seigenfeld, New Math Gallery
Judy Rifka Girls Book, curated by Rich Colicchio Gallery, 51X NYC
Gallery Artists, T. Greathouse, June - July
Post Contemporary Art, curated by Gracie Mansion, Gracie Mansion Gallery October
Portraits, curated by Gracie Mansion, Gracie Mansion Gallery July
Vote, curated by Paul Smith, ABC No Rio
Conspiracies, curated by Michael Limbo, Limbo Gallery
Note: an asterisk denotes that a catalogue accompanies the exhibition.
PRESS: (selected)
Carlo McCormick and Walter Robinson, Slouching Toward Avenue D, Art in America, Summer 1984, pp.151 repro
Photographs by Hope Sandrow, Appearances, Fall 1984 repro
Betsy Sussler, The Americas, Art, Poetry, Fiction, Film, Bomb, Spring 1984, p.48 repro
Nicolas Moufarrege, The Year After, Flash Art, Summer 1984, p.55
Nicolas Coleman, Urban Textures, Washington Post, January 1, 1985, p.B7 repro