Sandra Fourlis

Born on 21st of September in 1941 in Boston, Massachusetts, Sandra Fourlis is a multidimensional artist.  From 1960 to 1964 she studied graphic arts at the School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts -SMFA- under the guidance of great teachers, including Panos Gikas.
During her lifetime there, she worked as a children’s book illustrator for Allyn & Bacon, was a member of Barker and Black Commercial Studios Boston, and was invited to present her paintings at a group exhibition at “The Charles Street Gallery” in Beacon Hill, Boston in 1964, and participated in many more art exhibitions.
Since 1965 Sandra Fourlis has been living and working in Athens, which has been the most productive period of her artistic activity. The Greek public became acquainted with her work, through her collaboration with an art dealer, for 8 years, during the 1980s. In 1986 she organized a charity auction at the “Goulandris Museum of Natural History”, in collaboration with “The American Women of Greece-AWOG”, while in 2008 she participated in “Silent Dialogues: Multimedia Portraits Throughout Time” at the “ACG Gallery of the American College of Greece”.
In the recent period she is preparing her book entitled “A Half-century of Being Greek, Sandra R. Fourlis’ Art and Design”.