As an artist I find myself looking for images that have a strange, surreal beauty to them. Otherworldly. Art speaks a language of the soul. It takes you inside yourself and then back out, reaching.

Biography

Sandra Dyas is a visual artist who works primarily in photography and mixed-media. She is both a traditional artist and an experimental artist, often making mixed media pieces from discarded photographs. Other areas of interest include installation, performance, artist book-making and video.

As a working artist, Sandra's images have been published on CDs, book jackets and magazines, including the photograph for Dave Moore's CD release Breaking It Down To Three. She has also done work for Bo Ramsey, Greg Brown, David Zollo and Eric Straumanis, all on Trailer Records. Author and poet photographs include Chris Offutt, Jorie Graham, Thisbe Nissen and Larry Levis. She also produces video art. Several of her works have been accepted in the Athens Film & Video Festival and Thaw. Photo District News, PDN Magazine featured her portrait work in their 50 States Issue in 2005. She was chosen as the photographer to represent Iowa. Her work has been aired both nationally and internationally.

Sandra received her MFA in Intermedia Art and Video from The University of Iowa in 1998.