Sandi Dennison-Laufer was born in New York and raised in Bergen County, New Jersey. She was educated at the State University of New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology, graduating with a degree in Textile Design.
Her education lead to a career in the fashion industry. For the next twenty years, Sandi worked as a textile designer and stylist in New York’s Garment Center. She designed for some of the city’s leading manufacturers and design houses of fine women’s apparel.
After the birth of her daughter, she continued to freelance for many textile design studios and fashion houses in New York.
In 1993, Sandi and her family moved to California and settled in Orange County, where her art changed course and emerged into the medium of collage. Greatly influenced by modern woodblock prints, Sandi creates distinctive contemporary art with an Asian flair. She has mastered the unique melding of paper and paint. Her design background and knowledge of color and composition have enabled her to create art with perfect balance and symmetry.
The collage titled “Necessity 1,” was chosen for inclusion in the, “All Media ‘96” held at the Irvine Fine Arts Center.
Sandi’s art was also showcased in a solo show at the “Portfolio at the Irvine Civic Center”, as well as galleries in Corona Del Mar, Newport Beach and Tustin.
During much of 2008, her art has been at several notable exhibitions and galleries in the Pacific Northwest, including the monthly ART WALK, Mirror Pond Gallery, and at the gallery of Cafe Sintra in Bend, Oregon.
In 2011, Sandi was invited to teach a workshop on Torn-Paper Collage at Arts Central in Bend, Oregon, along with an exhibit of her work. Sandi Dennison-Laufer continues to create and display unique fine art.
In April of 2020, inspired by the COVID-19 stay-at-home orders, Sandi began creating her Quarantine Collection. In July of 2020, the Quarantine Mini-Collection was introduced. As the stay-at-home orders have been extended, it inspired Sandi to create Portfolio 3, Expectations. Looking toward hopeful normalcy.
In January of 2021, Portfolio 4, Shadows, we look for the light at the end of the tunnel.
In December of 2021, upon emerging from the COVID darkness, “Autumn in the Desert” won 1st Place in the Sun City Shadow Hills Art Show.
In June of 2023, my collage “OTHRQAR” Placed 1st in the Mixed Media Category at the Annual National Porsche Car Rally, Porsche Parade Art Show in La Quinta, California.
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