Jeffrey Sanderson Really Wants to Talk About Abstract Painting and Improvisational Creativity

Jeffrey Sanderson is a painter based in Chicago where he has been engaged in an intuitive and exploratory home studio practice steadily for over 20 years. Jeff says. “My work depends upon and celebrates the remarkable sensitivity and uncanny memory that humans possess.” We talk about how his work can preserve marks and evidence of a conversation between a maker and a surface. His paintings are improvised which leads us to a wonderful conversation about how each mark or color or brush stroke leads to the next in the thrilling moments of creation. It leads us to talk about how great live music can also feel that way and even how life itself is often the decisions we make and steps we take upon realizing our plans may not meet the moment.