Sandra Dooley Medina was born in Havana. Her paintings reflect her daily life in the seaside town of Santa Fe, Cuba, at home with her husband, friends, dogs and cats.
Her figures are contemplative and philosophical. Her works exemplify what Picasso described in his musings: "Nobody paints what he sees, but what he feels, what tells him about what it is that was seen." Indeed, with broad strokes of vivid color, Sandra paints her intense feelings about childhood, parenthood, friendship and love. Below, she describes how she "came to paint."
"The story of how I started painting is amusing: in the Christmas of 1999, I wanted to make some new decorations because, between you and me, the ones we had in the house were horrible. So I took some hollow egg shells and made them into ornaments which I hand painted with a set of children's temperas, and my friends went crazy for them. I ended up painting more than 40 eggs, then started to make cards and then some little paintings. After that I was hooked, and I haven't stopped painting since." - Sandra Dooley
Abbreviated CV:
Personal exhibitions
-Museo Municipal Playa "Reencuendro con el Tiempo," February 2001
-Oficina de Gobierno Municipio Habana Vieja "Mujer," Mayo 2001
-Maqueta de La Habana "La Palabra y la Imagen," Febrero 2002
-Exposición "Resonancias," Dusseldorf, Germany, Junio 2002
-Hostal Valencia "Mujeres," Octubre 2002
-Exposición permanente Internet Galeria Habana.com, 2001, '3, '4.
-Off the Beaten Way Gallery, New Orleans, US, 2003
-Museo Municipal Playa "Familia," Enero 2004
-Havana Gallery, Chicago, "Asi es mi vida," US, 2004
-Cuban Art Space, Hew York, "Vivir en Santa Fe," Julio-Agosto '05
-Havana Gallery, Chicago, "Dos lindas cubanas," Junio-Julio 2005
-Kismet Gallery, Phoenix AZ US, "Sandra," exposición perm. Desde '06
-"Mujer" Oficina Patrimonio, Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba, 2009
-Blue Santa Fe" Havana Gallery, Chicago, Agosto, 2009
-"A Cuban Artist," La Galeria Cubana, Boston, Mass, Octubre, 2009
-Cuban Art Space, NYC, 2010
-Cuba! Gallery of Fine Art, "Su Casa es Mi Casa," Melbourne, FL, USA 2011
Collective Exhibitions
-Galeria M. Rodriguez, Villa Panamericana "El Angel," 2000
-Oficina de Gobierno Habana Vieja "El Angel," 2000
-Casa de la Cultura Sante Fe, "Dos Lagunas", 2001, '02, '03
-Oficina de Gobierno Habana Vieja, "El Angel?, Abril 2001
-Jornada Cucalambeana Las Tunas, Junio 2001
-Jornada Cucalambeana Museo Municipal Playa, Sep 2001
-Salón 13 de Marzo, Galeria L. Marzo 2002
-Exposición "Syrius," Dusseldorf, Germany, Mayo 2002
-Exposición "Resonancias", Hagen Germany, Junio 2002
-Exposición "Resonancias," Bochum, Germany, Julio 2002
-Salón de Pequeño Formato Galeria L, Octubre 2002
-Exposición Trevor Allan Gallery, Toronto CA, Diciembre 2002
-Exposición "150 Aniversario del Naciemiento de Jose Marti", Teatro Nacional, Enero 2003
-Exposición Canal Educativo, Septiembre 2003
-Exposición Bienal de La Habana, Galeri L, Noviembre 2003
-Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas, Ciudad Habana, Octubre 2003
-Bienal de La Habana, Galeria L, Noviembre 2003
-Expo. "Vivir en Santa Fe," Hotel Sevilla, 2003, 2004
-Expo, Homenaje al Dia Internacional de la Mujer, Museo Municipal de Playa, 2004
-Varios artistas cubanos, La Galeria Cubana, Boston, 2009
-Havana Gallery, Walking Shefield Festival, Julio 2004
-Havana Gallery, Winter Collective, Enero-Marzo 2005
-Havana Nights, Chicago, Diciembre a Enero 2006
-Winter Collective, Havana Gallery, 2006, Chicago
-Walking Garden Festival" Havana Gallery, 2006, Chicago
-Cuban Art Space NYC, "Exuberance" Erotic Art, 2006
-"El Encuentro", Havana Gallery, Chicago, 2006
-Women Artists in the Revolution, Enero-Febrero 2007
-Anderson Gallery, Drake University, Des Moines, IA
-Expo. Colectiva Proyecto DaDaDa, Paris Francia 2007
-Expo. Colectiva Oficina Patrimonio de ciudad de La Habana, 2009
-10 mo. Aniversario Havana Gallery, Chicago 2009
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