Bad Sandy is the Alter Ego of Australian Artist Sandra Schnellhaus. Schnellhaus runs an International Photo agency and is exposed everyday to 1,000's of celebrity photos from all around the world. This submergence in popular culture has leaked into Schnellhaus' art, as celebrities are the characters in her mixed Media mid scale pieces following the adventures of Bad Sandy that are transformed into digital installations. In the tradition of Clark Kent and Superman it is our alter ego that gets to do all the things we can only dream about.

 

The Blonde Sweatband wearing heroine sends a message of strength as Schnellhaus, very influenced by the aesthetics of Roy Lichtenstein, does not present his tone of a sad, desperate or broken women, but a powerful fun force to be reckon with.

Schnellhaus is influenced by the attitude of Miles Aldridge photographs and heavily incorporates his work into the visual language she uses to talk to the viewer.

 

Colourful, Comic strip, pop art, street art, commenting on popular culture and celebrity events, but Schnellhaus wants to challenge societies difficulty with not seeing women who are mothers as autonomous people. The role we play as mothers is expected to fit a behavioral mould that Schnellhaus found in her work creating an alter ego smashes.

 

When fashion designer Jeremy Scott sent those amazing, fun, blonde Amazons down the runway at his Milan Presentation in 2014 for Moschino the dolls that Schnellhaus had adored and played with had come to life with an energy that confirmed with Schnellhaus where Bad Sandy's source of strength came from. The Moschino sweatband.

 

Schnellhaus is preparing to exhibit this work in New York in the Fall.

Opening Reception:

Wednesday 21st October 2015

Lower East Side Gallery

2 Rivington Street

New York City, NY