Sandi has been a dedicated painter and tattoo artist based in Denver for over two decades. Her journey into mural work began in 2010 when she was invited to paint the exterior wall of her favorite local restaurant—a pivotal opportunity that led to numerous mural commissions throughout Denver and surrounding communities.
Originally from New Britain, Connecticut, Sandi has been passionate about art for as long as she can remember. Encouraged by supportive parents who recognized and nurtured her creativity, she pursued her path as a self-taught artist. Over the years, her work has been featured in successful exhibitions across Denver and various cities throughout the United States.
"Beauty is never simple in the work of Sandi Calistro, and for all the strength she infuses her usually-female subjects with there is also danger, vulnerability, and pain beneath the alluring veneer. Her examination of femininity is fearless, a sharp contrast to the false positivism found in some circles, and incorporates a galaxy of open symbols and metaphors to contrast and heighten the assured linework. Calistro works tendrils of paint and ink into the growing chasms between expectation and reality, and in addition to her explorations of gender she exposes the disconnect between the modern consciousness and the natural world, where living creatures and the earth itself are but afterthoughts to trivial things we imbue with absurd importance. Somewhere between the menaced and the menacing, the tragic and the wonderful, the art of Sandi Calistro presents itself to the viewer as both open-ended riddle and self-contained fairy tale. That, and it fucking rocks." -Jesse Bullington author of Tale of the Brothers Grossbart and The Enterprise of Death