Sandi Maurer

Artist statement

Making art is a meaningful process inspired by everyday life.  I love to bring the seen and unseen into form using color, shape, figure, narrative, and whimsy.

About

Sandi has a BA in Art Studio from Sonoma State University 1984, with an emphasis in drawing. She was primarily influenced by classes in ceramics with Kay Armstrong, and monoprints and mixed media with Inez Storer. 

After college, under the name "DruBy Woo”, she created and sold whimsical ceramic figures in art galleries in Sonoma County, and San Francisco. In 1989 she made ceramic stones called “Lightstones” and sold them to gift stores across the country. In 2010 she began to paint with acrylics. In 2021 she joined the Art Workshop of Western Sonoma County (AWS). Currently she’s painting figures, cups, mandalas and also sculpting and painting ceramic figures.

Artist Resume

Education
Solano Community College, Associate of Arts degree general studies, 1981;  University of South Carolina, at Columbia student exchange program, 1982; Sonoma State University (SSU), Bachelor of Arts degree Art studio, emphasis drawing, 1984;  Santa Rosa Junior College classes in monotype, etching 1995-1998.

Art Related Experience
University banner designer 1981-1983;  SSU Art gallery assistant 1982-1983; SSU ceramic assistant (Kay Armstrong) 1983-1984; Various commercial work: window painting, murals and display work;   Artist in Residence: Analy High School, Sebastopol California ceramic parade project 1994; Created and marketed handmade, hand painted ceramic Lightstones to stores across the United States and Australia, 1989 to 2007.

Exhibitions

Livery Co-Work Art Show Sebastopol Fall 2024; Coffee and Moore Sebastopol, Fall 2024; “RoShamBo!” juried Graton Gallery 2024; 13 on the Wall, Rohnert Park 2024; Apple Blossom Art Show Sebastopol 2022, 2023, 2024; Sebastopol Center for the Arts Member Show: 2015, 2016, 2021, 2022; "Reclaiming the Artist" Studios South A Santa Rosa 2016; ”Food Glorious Food" juried Sebastopol (people’s choice award)1 998; ”Art from the Start" Sebastopol Center for the Arts 1998; Landmark Studio Gallery, Bodega CA, Quicksilver Mine Company Guerneville, Virginia Brier, San Francisco 1985-1989; "Artists at Play" Mill Gallery, Petaluma 1990; "Artists at Play" Santa Rosa City Hall 1989; "Monoprints" Annies Art Gallery Bodega 1985; The Female Figure" SSU 1983; "Beginnings" juried SSU Art Gallery 1983; "Drawings and Paintings" Rohnert Park 1983.