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Lucky Beauty Money by Sands Murray-Wassink

Horses as symbols are signs of freedom and wildness. For Sands also a gender correction since growing up, as was told that they were symbols for 'little girls'. After the age of 40, Sands picked up the symbol as a kind of signature or spirit animal, hoping that others could relate to and place themselves in the combinations of text and image.








About the artist:

Sands Murray-Wassink (b. 1974, Topeka, Kansas. Lives in Amsterdam) is a painter, body artist, writer and perfume collector indebted to various forms and permutations of intersectional feminist and queer art, with artists Carolee Schneemann, Hannah Wilke and Adrian Piper serving as key coordinates.

Murray-Wassink's work has recently been featured at the following venues: Auto Italia, London, 2022; Azkuna Zentroa, Bilbao, 2021; Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, 2021; and mistral, Amsterdam, 2021 — each time as part of 'Gift Science Archive' programmed by If I Can't Dance, I Don't Want To Be Part Of Your Revolution not be part of your revolution).

After studying at the Pratt Institute (from 1992 to 1994) in Brooklyn where he worked with Carolee Schneemann, then his professor, Murray-Wassink moved to the Netherlands in 1994 during an exchange program at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. He then studied in Amsterdam (at De Ateliers in 1995 and 1996), where he has lived and worked since, with his husband Robin and their cats Betsie and (before/now) Duman.


More information about Murray-Wassink:
www.sands1974.com