{"id":1676,"date":"2009-03-17T17:33:52","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T22:33:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/womantalk.wordpress.com\/?p=1676"},"modified":"2009-03-17T17:33:52","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T22:33:52","slug":"sigrid-sandstrom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=1676","title":{"rendered":"Sigrid Sandstrom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 329px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i108.photobucket.com\/albums\/n18\/womantalk\/sandstrom.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled, 2008\" width=\"319\" height=\"252\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Untitled, 2008<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sigrid Sandstrom\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s acrylic paintings withstand a good amount of looking. In one of her untitled pieces, the pile of what appears to be collaged bits of torn and cut paper in the foreground anchor the eye, but the atmospheric background has, strangely, the same amount of presence \u00e2\u20ac\u201c giving the sensation of an abstraction floating in a landscape. The word \u00e2\u20ac\u0153floating\u00e2\u20ac\u009d may lead to an appropriate analogy, for as much as these works depend upon an oscillation between the fore- and background, the tension between the two is not so much a struggle, as it is a rhythmic balance. The fact that Sandstrom employs trompe l\u00e2\u20ac\u2122oeil\u00c2\u00a0 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c all the elements are painted -\u00c2\u00a0 is really beside the point (The Company, Chinatown)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sigrid Sandstrom\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s acrylic paintings withstand a good amount of looking. In one of her untitled pieces, the pile of what appears to be collaged bits of torn and cut paper in the foreground anchor the eye, but the atmospheric background &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=1676\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}