Artist Katherine Sandoz’s ‘WATER WAYS’ opens at Laney Contemporary

“The product of one’s own lived experience forms a guidance system through spaces between the knowable and the unknown — this is where art forms,” writes Harvard University graduate student Sarah Ashley Borders Zigman on “Water Ways,” the most recent body of work by local artist Katherine

Sandoz. “The lotus, a transcultural talisman across most of the ancient world crossed into a space of modernity, also resides here.”

Sandoz has been working with botanical subject matter for more than 20 years, beginning with her first show of the imagery way back in 2002 at Gallery Espresso. With “Water Ways” at Laney Contemporary, however, it feels as though something new is happening, not just a step forward, but a sort of reinvigoration of the work she’s been doing for over two decades. Given that the lotus is a symbol for, among other things, rebirth, it makes sense that she would choose the flower that’s more than just a flower as the main focal point for the show.

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