Oaxaca

SANDY KAUFMAN PHOTOGRAPHS

OAXACA Caption 1

Caption 2

Giotto Blue 1

The Reader 2

Framed at Casa de Siete Balcones 3

Valley Color 4

Cactus Bones 5

Soft Edges 6

Cemetery Concrete 7

Diagonal Shade 8

Rebar Exuberance 9

Natural Dyes 10

Sharp Eye 11

After Spinach 12

High Five 13

Breakfast Tables 14

Leftists 15

Bark 16

Toothy Smile 17

Untitled 18

On Toes 19

Art and Nature 20

H 21

Calderesque 22

Pews 23

Geometries 24

Treadmarks 25

Curves and Edges 26

Bright-eyed Sawhorse and Bee 27

Shadow Shapes 28

Cemetery Doors 29

Oaxcan Dance 30

Blue Sky Paint 31

Motherwell 32

Operatic Angel 33

Aquatic Shapes 34

Shadow Spider 35

Windshield 36

Streetlamps and Hourglass 37

Curving Light 38

Flying Lines 39

Peacock 40

Rays 41

Sunset Tables 42

Oaxacan Dance 2 43

Gilded Tree 44

Holding the Book 46

Bestowment 47

3D Key 48

Mezcal House 49

Faded Heart 50

Repose 51

Emile Cioran as a Bat 52

Rockheads 53

Spider Creature 54

Madonna of the Cheap Beer Bar 55

Gold Leaf 56

Stone Steps 57

Medallion 58

Santo 59

Tuba at the Cathedral 60

Spiked Burgundy 61

Magical Morning 62

Points of Light 63

Steadfast Cactus 64

Meet the Beetle 65

Mitla Tomb 66

Shadows of Hanging Art 67

Moss Green Order 68

Diamonds 69

Longhorn 70

Masonic Eye 71

Flying Roadrunner 72

Sunset Rally 73

Meet the Beetle 2 74

Music from the Heart 75

Mitla Design 76

From the Tomb 77

Caption 80

Caption 81

Sleep 84

Vista 85

Blues 86

Eye Up 87

Composed 88

Woven Dreams 89

Marimba Lamps 90

Zocalo Marimba 91

Flower 92

In the Village 93

Golden Bells 94

Soft-form Cactus 95

The Kids Love Saturday Morning 96

Sweet Love 97

Hair Polish 98

Alcala Night 99

Church at the Tule Tree 100

Cemetery Soul 101

Strength by Design 102

Vertical Hats 103

Bark and Street 104

Zapotec Stones 105

The Eye 106

Entering Light 107

Twist 108

Backbone 109

Neighbors 110

Field Pod 111

The Winners 112

Hopscotch 113

Corner in Air 114

Kiss 115

Bus Sign 116

Oaxacan Dance 3 117

Stareye and the Caterpillar 118

Iron Keyhole 119

Soft Shadows 120

Pyramid Light 121

Susie’s Pink Wall 122

Shadow Shift 123

Rubik’s Head 124

Wilson’s Steps at Monte Alban 125

Saturn’s Moons 126

The Planets 127

Perpetuidad Angel 128

Remembrance 129

Mixing Color 130

Winding Wool 131

Natural Greens 132

Mixing Color 133

Open Gate 134

Peak and Arch 135

Wall X 136

Thorny X 137

Directions 138

Short-tail Elephant 139

Wall Reeds 140

Rebar Blues 141

Oaxaca Colors 142

Coral Wall 143

Ridged Green Metal 144

Pinguinos 145

Reflected Palms 146

Reflected Casa 147

Locked 148

Mitla Edges 149

Searching Eyes 150

Big Eye 151

Wall Creature 152

Medical Advertisement 153

Wall Art 154

Empty Bottle 155

Morandi Color 156

Square Dance 157

Indigo Shadows 158

Shadow and Glass 159

Swirl 160

The Wind 161

Terracotta Wall 162

Abstraction 163

Metal Composition 164

Architectural Pattern 165

Composition 166

Color-field Blues 167

On the Run 168

Wall Creatures 169

Zig Zag 170

Composition 2 171

Grace 172

Natural Design 173

NO 174

3D Letterforms 175

Pattern Door 176

Composition 4 177

Minimal 178

Klee Monument 179

Typography 1 180

Typography 2 181

Solid Form and Color 182

Glass Edges 183

House Elements 184

Striped Composition 185

Etching Texture 186

Mountain View 187

Golden Swirls 188

Knotted Gate 189

Mortars and Pestles 190

Wirefish at Q 191

Reflected Friends 192

Symmetry 193

Glossy Brush 194

Formal Gates 195

Plaza Dance 196

Street Fair 197

Mezcal Devil 198

MR Rat 199

Face in Bark 200

Oaxacan Sunset 201

Cubes 202

Metal Tulips 203

Drying Wool 204

Cemetery Composition 205

Water’s Edge 206

Wood and Iron 207

The House 208

Building 209

Glass Etching 210

Light Dancer 211

Hinge 212

Remembrance 213

Glossy Reflections 214

Hearts in Air 215

Doorways 216

Caption 217

Through his photography in India, Italy, Spain, Mexico, and New York City Sandy Kaufman reveals a poetry of place while discovering the unfamiliar in the familiar— forms, patterns, juxtaposed images, textures, and composition in shadow and line.

Oaxaca is not just a beautiful city nestled in the mountains of southern Mexico, but it is place that is renowned for it’s extraordinary history, refined cuisine, multicolored colonial architecture, elaborately embellished churches, and a vibrant community of artists, students, crafts people, scholars, and farmers.

From the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Textiles, the Ruffino Tamayo collection of historical art to the ancient sites of Monte Alban and Mitla, Oaxaca is vibrant and inspirational.

Sandy Kaufman is a painter and photographer living in Brooklyn, New York. He has worked for Columbia University and New York University for the past 20 years as creative director while continuing to work on his paintings and photography. Now he is solely focused on his personal art including a series of larger canvases based on his gouache portfolio. http://www.sandykaufmanphoto.com