Sandi Sullivan

Sandi is a painter, designer and illustrator working in Southern California. Her distinctive artistic draws from commercial illustration, poster art, and rock concert flyers of the past seven decades, but the work is imbued with an attitude and sly sense of humor which is unmistakably of our time. The paintings themselves celebrate pop culture, art, music and film on vividly colored, sharply rendered panels; the characters sing, drink, smoke and dance amongst colorful and wild text that she developed by studying custom lettering of the 60s & 70s; when graphic designers developed stylistically diverse hand drawn lettering that was a unique feature of headline type before the advent of Letraset and the computer. Custom Lettering gave designers’ imaginations full reign to develop individualistic solutions unconstrained by typographic practicalities.