Rosie Sandifer: Language of Art documents the evolution of Sandifer's career as both painter and sculptor, from painting portraits, genre, and landscape to sculpting tabletop and public
monuments. The painting collection includes pastels, watercolors, acrylics, and her major medium, oils. Her paintings depict her ventures throughout the American West as well as her
international travels.
Her dramatic and elegant sculptural compositions often have narrative qualities, and demonstrate her talent through the many successful public monuments installed at universities, sculpture
parks, and corporate headquarters. This book includes the stories behind the sculptures - why they were created and their unique installations. Sandifer's life-size and monumental clay
originals, and the work in progress in her studio and at the foundry are beautifully displayed, and the day-to-bronze process is described step by step.
Robin Salmon observes that with painterly strokes of clay, Rosie sculpts the mundane, elevating it to a special level in her slice-of-life depictions. Tuck Langland sums up Rosie's work as
"portraying the joy of life, revealing a perspective which is in stark contrast to those artists who see only misery, pain, and suffering..." He acknowledges her unusual life as a hybrid
artist. "While most sculptors draw; few are serious about painting. This straddling the world of two and three dimensions is rare..." Expressing her vision of beauty in two and three dimensions
has defined Sandifer's creative life. It is her language of art.
