Sondra Dorn

Sondra Dorn

  • Artist’s Statement

    "I always search the world for pattern, color, and composition. Different perspectives – the view from an airplane or through a microscope –reveal abstract patterns that are the basis for my visual vocabulary. Technology (airplanes, microscopes, computer-aided design) enables these different views, allowing me to apprehend hidden details, and to shift back and forth between different aspects, the micro, and the macro.

    The materials that I use to create bring my work back to a human personal scale. Through many marks and layers; I build my landscapes by hand using processes that are slow and intimate. I engage with the forms I’ve discovered in the world around me, dissolving and reconstituting them with paper, fabric, thread, paints, pencils, and acrylic mediums. I experience these re-imagined landscapes as close-up details and distant topographies simultaneously. I hope that my work invites you to take the time to enjoy these shifting spaces and perspectives."

  • Biography

    Sondra Dorn is a studio artist living in Asheville, North Carolina. She received her MFA from the University of Washington in 1996. Following graduate school, Dorn went on to a one-year Artist-in-Residency at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, and then a three-year Artist-in-Residency at Penland School of Crafts in Penland, North Carolina. She was also a CORE fellowship student at Penland between the years 1992 through 1994, and also has taught workshops at Penland School of Crafts and Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts.



Showing 1–12 of 17 artworks

Sondra Dorn

Underwater Illumination
8 x 10 x 1.5 ″ Watercolor paper, watercolor, water-soluble pencils, graphite, micron pen mounted on birch panel $285.00

Sondra Dorn

Untitled, 2023
10 x 10 ″ Monoprint with Akua inks on BFK Heavyweight paper mounted on panel $385.00

Sondra Dorn

Untitled, 2023
10 x 10 ″ Monoprint with Akua inks on BFK Heavyweight paper mounted on panel $385.00

Sondra Dorn

Untitled, 2023
10 x 10 ″ Monoprint with Akua inks on BFK Heavyweight paper mounted on panel $385.00

Sondra Dorn

Untitled, 2023
10 x 10 ″ Monoprint with Akua inks on BFK Heavyweight paper mounted on panel $385.00

Sondra Dorn

Untitled, 2023
10 x 10 ″ Monoprint with Akua inks on BFK Heavyweight paper mounted on panel $385.00

Sondra Dorn

Untitled, 2023
10 x 10 ″ Monoprint with Akua inks on BFK Heavyweight paper mounted on panel $385.00

Sondra Dorn

Excerpt: In The Woods With Aqua
6 x 8 x 1.5 ″ Watercolor paper, watercolor, water-soluble pencils, graphite, micron pen mounted on birch panel $155.00

Sondra Dorn

Excerpt: In The Woods With Blue
8 x 6 x 1.5 ″ Watercolor paper, watercolor, water-soluble pencils, graphite, micron pen mounted on birch panel $155.00

Sondra Dorn

In The Misty Mountain
24 x 24 x 1.5 ″ Watercolor paper, watercolor, graphite, micron pen and acrylic paints and mediums on birch panel $1,825.00

Sondra Dorn

Dark Sea
10 x 8 x 1.5 ″ Watercolor paper, watercolor, water-soluble pencils, graphite, micron pen mounted on birch panel $285.00

Sondra Dorn

Molten IV
10 x 10 x 1.5 ″ Watercolor paper, watercolor, water-soluble pencils, graphite, micron pen mounted on birch panel $345.00