Phil Sandusky
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Phil Sandusky is a nationally renowned plein air impressionist landscape and cityscape painter who has had more than 30 solo exhibits in New Orleans and across the country. Though he is also an accomplished portrait and figure painter, he is best known for his cityscapes of New Orleans. He studied academic art privately from a very early age, and also, having an aptitude in math and science, graduated from Jacksonville University with a BA in Physics in 1980. In keeping with his dual interest in science, Sandusky has tempered his painting with an understanding of vision that goes beyond the age old dictums about optics, light, and perspective to venture into the realms explored by modern vision science. He has written four books, New Orleans en Plein Air, Painting Katrina, Jacksonville Through a Painter’s Eyes, and New Orleans Impressionist Cityscapes. He has also been the subject of, and often himself written, many articles in such national periodicals as “American Artist”, and “Plein Air Magazine.” He is also one of 276 dead and living artists entered in A Unique Slant of Light, the official bicentennial art history of Louisiana, commissioned by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.

Sandusky has been a New Orleans resident since 1984 and has marketed his work there since 1987. In June 2016 he amicably terminated his 22 year affiliation with the Cole Pratt Gallery and has begun to market his work independently in New Orleans and South Louisiana. He is still represented by Stellers Gallery in Jacksonville, FL. His works are in the permanent collections of the New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana State Museum, Historic New Orleans Collection, Beaches Museum, Jacksonville Beach, FL, La Mama International Center for Creative Arts, Umbria, Italy, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA, Alexander Brest Museum, Jacksonville, FL, Hastings Foundation, New York, NY, Whitney Bank, New Orleans, LA, and Iberia Bank, New Orleans, LA.

In addition to his prolific artistic output, Sandusky teaches landscape, figure, and portrait painting both privately and at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts. Sandusky was most recently honored to deliver the keynote address at the 2017 Plein Air South conference.

EXHIBITIONS
Solo Exhibitions
Degas Gallery, New Orleans, LA June 2017
Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans, LA March 2015
Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans, LA May 2012
Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans, LA November 2009
Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans, LA September 2007
Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans, LA January 2006
Cummer Art Museum, Jacksonville, FL September, 2008
Cole Pratt Gallery, Atlanta, GA November 2003
Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans, LA September 2003
Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans, LA March 2002
Reinike Gallery, Atlanta, GA Sept 2001
Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans, LA March 2000
Reinike Gallery, Atlanta, GA May 1999
Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans, LA November 1998
Reinike Gallery, Atlanta, GA Sept 1998
Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans, LA May 1998
Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans, LA January 1997
John Pence Gallery, San Francisco, CA July 1996
La Mama La Galleria, New York, NY June 1996
Reinike Gallery, Atlanta, GA October 1995
La Mama La Galleria, New York, NY October 1994
Academy Gallery, New Orleans, LA October 1993
Carol Robinson Gallery, New Orleans, LA March 1989
Academy Gallery, New Orleans, LA February 1988
Alexander Brest Museum and Gallery, Jacksonville, FL May 1993
La Mama La Galleria, New York, NY October 1992
Courtland Jessup Gallery, Provincetown, MA September 1992
Eaton Gallery, Memphis, TN July 1992
Reinike Gallery, Atlanta, GA March 1992
Carol Robinson Gallery, New Orleans, LA February 1992
Castillon fine Art, New York, NY. November 1991
La Mama La Galleria, New York, NY 1990

Group Exhibitions
Cole Pratt Gallery, New Orleans, LA 1996 thru 2008
Reinike Gallery, Atlanta, GA 1992 thru 2008
Academy Gallery, New Orleans, LA 1988 thru 2013
Carol Robinson Gallery, New Orleans, LA 1988 thru 1992
Gallery 13, New York, NY 1992
Thomas Jacoby Fine Art, Cashiers, NC 2000
Haggin Museum, Stockton, CA 2004
Louisiana Art and Science Museum, Baton Rouge, LA 2007
Ziggler Museum of Art, Jennings LA. 2007
Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA 2012
Ziggler Museum of Art, Jennings LA 20013
“Sea to Shinning Sea”, a project organized by the Haggin Museum in Stockton, CA Sandusky was one of 48 US artists which met at a series of plein air paint-outs culminating in a large group exhibit portraying the
beauty of America. This exhibit opened in spring of 2004 at the Haggin Museum toured to approximately 14 different venues across the country over a period of 4 years.
“Art for Relief”, a group exhibit at the Reinike Gallery in Atlanta, GA which benefited victims of the Hurricanes of 2005, October 2005

Current Gallery Affiliation
Represented by the Cole Pratt Gallery in New Orleans, LA and Stellers Gallery in Jacksonville, FL

Permanent Collections
New Orleans Museum of Art
Louisiana State Museum
Historic New Orleans Collection
Beaches Museum, Jacksonville Beach, FL
La Mama International Center for Creative Arts, Umbria, Italy
Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, Mass.
Alexander Brest Museum, Jacksonville, FL
Hastings Foundation, New York, NY
Whitney Bank, New Orleans, LA
Iberia Bank, New Orleans, LA

PUBLICATIONS
Sandusky is one of the artists featured in Expressions of Place, the Contemporary Louisiana Landscape, a book by John Kemp profiling the work of 30 Louisiana artists.
Sandusky is of 276 living and dead artists entered into Louisiana’s official bicentennial art history book, A Unique Slant of Light, commissioned by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.

These are the most notable publications written by or about Phil Sandusky:

Sandusky has written two articles for American Artist magazine: “Shedding a New Light on Temperature” in the September 1995 issue (Sandusky’s work was also featured in this issue) and “The Natural Way of Looking” published in 2 parts in the May and June 1999 issues. Both of these articles were republished in a special American Artist publication called Color, This contained the editor’s picks of the 25 best articles on the subject of color published in American Artist magazine in the decade spanning 1990 to 2000.

New Orleans en Plein Air, a 160 page book with color reproductions of 150 of Sandusky’s paintings spanning 1987 to 2002 was released in September 2003 by Pelican Publishing Company. Sandusky also
wrote the text for this book which focuses on human vision and painting.

“A Brush with Disaster” by John Kemp was published in the Spring 2006 issue of Louisiana Cultural Vistas magazine, a publication of the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. This article discussed Sandusky’s career and approach to painting but focused on his paintings of Hurricane Katrina devastation in New
Orleans.

Sandusky’s Katrina devastation paintings were also the focus of an article, “The Art of Post Katrina New Orleans” by Edith Zimmerman in the June 2006 issue of American Artist magazine.

Sandusky’s second book, Painting Katrina was released in August 2007. It shows the paintings he did of New Orleans before and after hurricane Katrina and journals his experiences painting the hurricane
devastation.

Sandusky was featured in the Spring 2008 issue of Workshop magazine (a publication of American Artist).

Sandusky’s third book, Jacksonville Through a Painter’s Eyes was released in August 2008. It features paintings of his home town in Florida from the mid 1980s to present, and text about his experiences as an art student there some 40 years ago. Its release coincided with a large solo exhibit at the Cummer Art Museum in Jacksonville.

“Forces That Inspire – New Orleans Through a Plein Air Painter’s Eyes” was an artist profile of Sandusky by Lisa Leblanc-Berry for the November 2009 issue of Louisiana Homes and Gardens.

Sandusky wrote an article entitled “Plein Air Painting as an End as Well as a Means” for the online version of Plein Air Magazine in November 2011.

An artist profile of Sandusky was written by Ian McNulty for the summer 2012 issue of New Orleans Homes and Lifestyles.

Sandusky’s fourth book, New Orleans Impressionist Cityscapes was released in September 2012. It features 130 plein air paintings of New Orleans and the surrounding areas executed from 2007 to 2012, a
very productive period for the artist. Sandusky’s accompanying text is an in-depth examination of human vision as it relates to representational art.

“Beauty in the Ordinary and Mundane” by John Kemp was a feature article published in the November 2013 issue of Plein Air magazine. It focused on Sandusky’s method and philosophy and presented many of
his paintings.

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