on the road
Above: First On The Road performance, En Plein Air, inspired by Edward Manet’s Le Dejeuner sur L’Herbe (see painting below). Left to right: Hope Sandrow, Tom Edmonds (Southampton Historical Museum Director), Ulf Skogsbergh, and Margaret Kelly. For six months the four met every Thursday at sunrise during the rush hour of commuter traffic. Southampton Press East, Traffic Moves Roadside Art, April, 2008. Photograph: Ulf Skogsbergh
on the road 2007 - 2013
Thursday, April 12, 2007
on the road was inspired by the cock-a-doodling-do of passers-by in response to the calls of the Rooster Shinnecock and first-born sons (video, below right- l to r), Alain, Agenor, Galileo. At a time when placing art outside the “White Cube” was trending at International Art Fairs: Sandrow found a receptive audience from those passing by in cars, on bicycles, on foot. Along the road on the southern side of open air studio where Sandrow followed Shinnecock across to Gissa Bu; William Merritt Chase painted in the open air.
Performances (2007 - 2013) were sited in Sandrow’s open air studio shinnecock hills spacetime and as traveling performances and exhibitions.
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Edouard Manet, Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe, 1863, oil on linen Musée d’Orsay, Paris
William Merritt Chase with Shinnecock Hills Summer School of Art Students along the main road (Old Montauk Highway) of Shinnecock Hills.
Photographs above and below by Albert Chittenden. Both the collection of Hope Sandrow.
Below: 1890 Chicken with Horse at the William Merritt Chase home/studio, Canoe Place Road, Shinnecock Hills just north of Sandrow’s open air studio Shinnecock Hills.
Hope Sandrow April 18 2006 commencing 5:40 am, from the study Shinnecock, spacetime 2006 Variably sized Pigment Print on Cotton Rag copyright © 2025 Hope Sandrow all rights reserved
Rooster Shinnecock (above) cock-a-doodling-do to passers-by on the road (Old Montauk Highway) a half-mile west of the land marked by the William Merritt Chase home/studio within the Shinnecock Indian contact period Village Fort Critical Environmental Area.
Hope Sandrow’s (2007) video of roosters - three brothers (left to right) Alain, Agenor, Galileo cock-a-doodling-doodling in call and response to passers-by.
Hope Sandrow, 2007, detail of panoramic print.
on the road events (chronological)