Brittany Sanders is a painter and book artist. At twenty-five, Sanders was the youngest artist represented in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition Highlights from the Permanent Collection: 1450 to the Present, Tiepolo to Thiebaud. Her artwork is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Getty Museum, Yale University and the New York Public Library, the Peter and Helen Bing Family, Agnes Gund and the Peter Norton Family. Sanders has received private commissions from the George Gund family, the Bonel Collection, and the artist and architect Maya Lin.
Brittany Sanders’ artwork focuses on themes of the temporal moment and the perception of truth. Sanders is currently executing a series of paintings on the theme of “last lands/what can be seen beyond the burden of knowing.”
Brittany Sanders graduated with honors from Brown University, with a double major in Comparative Literature and History of Art and Architecture.
In 2000 Sanders founded the Bonnie and Morgan Press with a mission to continue the tradition and expand the boundaries of limited edition art books. The Press has produced over fifteen titles ranging from Last Night We Were Awoke, which depicts how the night sky appeared to the Lewis and Clark expedition, to the anthology book I WAS THERE, which brings together emerging and established artists and writers commenting on seminal experience.
Sanders lives in Ojai, California.
Email: brittany@brittanysanders.com
Collections:
Brown University, John Hay Library
The Getty Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Museum of Modern Art
New York Public Library
New York University, Fales Library
Occidental College
Stanford University Arts Library
UC Berkeley Bancroft Library
UC Santa Barbara
UC Santa Cruz
UCLA Special Collections
University of Delaware
University of Nevada
University of Utah
University of Washington
Washington State Library
Yale University Sterling Library
Private Collections:
The Peter and Helen Bing Family
The Francis Ford Coppola Family
Agnes Gund
The George Gund Family
Tony Kushner
Maya Lin
The Peter Norton Family Foundation