In her first solo show in New York, Litchfield's collaged and painted memory landscape compositions will ramble across the walls of the gallery working directly with the architectural elements of the space itself and calling attention to how we perceive and recall place and time.

The rounded world is fair
to see nine times folded
in mystery
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

'For me "The Rounded World" is one that is fluid rather than solid, flexible as opposed to rigid. It moves around us as much as we move around it. Its changing nature evokes feelings of insecurity and unpredictability as well as wonder and awe.'
- Sandy Litchfield

Sandy Litchfield is a painter whose map-like abstract works on paper, canvas, and in installation form explore landscape in a very personal way. The gestation of any given work begins with a walk or series of walks through the Massachusetts countryside where she lives and works. Diaristically she builds paintings from incidents and impressions gathered on her walks creating memory maps of a particular day or place. The paintings develop a distinct narrative flow as the viewer follows her track, taking part in what she has found of interest such as a flushed bird, a stand of trees, a bog, or footprints along a lake. In this way her paintings, with their sensitive approach to nature, share a strong kinship with other Massachusetts natives, Henry David Thoreau and the transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Litchfield is, however, a thoroughly contemporary painter exercising a precise sense of editing, a crisp approach to surface, and a broad array of technique in her fresh and suggestive work. A thickly impastoed area, for instance, which may perfectly describe a patch of brambles might be juxtaposed with a broad flat plane of color tuned to a time of day. Inspired by Chinese and Japanese scroll paintings, and antique topographical maps, Litchfield presents us with multiple points of view; aerial, vertical and horizontal simultaneously.

In her large scaled installations Litchfield extends her compositions beyond the confines of her paintings' formats to fill entire areas of wall in what seems a natural expansion of her concerns with the particularities of place and the landscape tradition of bringing the outdoors inside. Sandy Litchfield has written about her work: In my working (and walking) practice, I strive to surround place as much as it surrounds me. Often, I will come home from a walk and make a map-like drawing or watercolor that describes my recent journey. I'm particularly interested in the false attempts by early cartographers to understand place; how one strains to gain perspective when accurate measuring devises are not available and how, more importantly, the imagination fills in what we do not know."

Sandy Litchfield has exhibited her work throughout New England including the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, MA, the Peabody-Essex Museum, Salem, MA, the Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, VT, the New Britain Museum, New Britain, CT, as well as in the Philippines and Colorado. Litchfield's work was included in "Breathing Space" at metaphor contemporary art in 2004. Sandy Litchfield's work was selected by Nicholas Baume of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston for publication in New American Painting in 2005. Her work has received critical attention in the Boston Herald, the Boston Globe, and the Albany Times Union among other publications.