Like two threads leading to the same center, Judith Ellen Sanders' backgrounds in art and science have led her into the studio to create a visual vocabulary of growth and renewal. The marvelous worlds of biology and biochemistry and the power and pull of the inner emotional realms are the currents that pulse and flow through her paintings. Infusing imagery of expansiveness with scientific principles of synergy and metamorphosis, her studio is her laboratory as she melds vibrancy and form with color and light.

Taken by the beauty of the reactions and interactions constantly occurring within the cell, Sanders was inspired to supplement her studies in art with a Master of Science degree. Now she sees the worlds of art and science as one -- a world where new realms are to be discovered, where elegance and beauty are the vernacular, and where there is always synergy and interaction, expansiveness and possibility.

An artist-in-residence at Leverett Crafts & Arts for four years, over the recent years Sanders has had solo shows at the Jasper Rand Art Museum, Bentley College Art Gallery, and the University of Massachusetts Medical School Gallery, as well as at Grace Institute in New York City where she presented a talk to the students on the pathways of art, science, and life. Sanders has also been awarded the Ray Kimmel Memorial Award at the Faber Birren National Color Award Show by Roxana Marcocci of the Museum of Modern Art.

In 2006 there were solo exhibits of Sanders’ work at the Boston Biomedical Research Institute as well as at the Interchurch Center in New York City, and her work was also displayed at the Johnson & Johnson Research and Development Gallery in Raritan, New Jersey as well as by the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority for their annual art celebration and display at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center.

In 2007 Sanders spoke at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research at MIT on the beauty and flow of science and there have been solo exhibits of her work at MassBay and Greenfield Community Colleges. Sanders’ work is part of several private and corporate collections including Wellington Management, Baystate/University of Massachusetts Biomedical Research Institute, and Grace Institute.

Praise for Judith Ellen Sanders

"One has the sensation of watching a sensitive scientific mind grapple with and respond to the mystery and wonder of the natural world, to the part of biology that doesn't yield its secrets to the scientific method. Sweet Science. Judith Ellen Sanders: a biologist's training, an artist's eye"
Lisa Gallay

"There is no other artist I know of who combines the art of science and the science of art with more rapture and innovation. The rhythm, spontaneity, breadth and depth of Sanders' work is enthralling."
Renée Phillips, author and director of Manhattan Arts International

In the article titled "Sanders' work of overlapping forms blossoms into art"…Judith Ellen Sanders, a painter whose designs describe the elegance of scientific and artistic thought."
Nina Bander

Read an interview with Judith Ellen Sanders by Melissa Goldberg in the Manhattan Arts International Ezine.