Sarah Sze

Sarah Sze

360 (Portable Planetarium) 2010
Born 1969 (age 46–47)
Boston, Massachusetts
Nationality American
Education MFA
Known for Sculpture
Awards MacArthur Fellow (2003–2008)
US Representative for the Venice Biennale (2013)

Sarah Sze (/ˈziː/; born 1969) is a contemporary artist who lives and works in New York City.[1] The artist employs a constellation of everyday materials in her work, ranging from found objects and photographs to handmade sculptures and living plants, creating encyclopedic and accumulative landscapes that penetrate walls and stretch across museums.[2]

Early life

Born in Boston in 1969, Sze presently lives and works in New York. She received a BA from Yale University in Connecticut in 1991 and an MFA from New York's School of Visual Arts in 1997.[3]

Career

Since the late 1990s, Sarah Sze has developed a signature visual language that challenges the static nature of sculpture. Sze draws from Modernist traditions of the found object, dismantling their authority with dynamic constellations of materials that are charged with flux, transformation and fragility. Captured in this suspension, her immersive and intricate works question the value society places on objects and how objects ascribe meaning to the places and times we inhabit.

Coinciding with the explosion of information of the 21st Century, Sze's work simultaneously models and navigates the ceaseless proliferation of information in contemporary life. Her encyclopaedic installations unfold like a series of experiments that construct intimate systems of order – precarious ecologies in which material conveys meaning and a sense of loss.

Widely recognized for challenging the boundaries of painting, installation and architecture, Sze's sculptural practice ranges from slight gestures discovered in hidden spaces to expansive installations that scale walls and colonize architectures.

Sze represented the United States at the Venice Biennale in 2013, and was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2003. She has exhibited in museums worldwide, and her works are held in the permanent collections of prominent institutions, including The Museum of Modern Art, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Fondation Cartier, Paris; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles. Sze's work has been featured in The Whitney Biennial (2000), the Carnegie International (1999) and several international biennials, including Berlin (1998), Guangzhou (2015), Liverpool (2008), Lyon (2009), São Paulo (2002), and Venice (1999, 2013, and 2015). Sze has also created public works for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and the High Line in New York. Sze was born in Boston, Massachusetts and lives and works in New York.[4]

In December 2016, a permanent installation of drawings by Sze on ceramic tiles will open in the 96th Street subway station on the new Second Avenue Subway line in New York City.[5][6][7][8][9]

Recognition

...Sze represented the United States at the Venice Biennale in 2013. Two years later, as an invited artist, she made one of the more memorable contributions to the next one. She is a brilliant, continually surprising artist, who uses transparent means and everyday materials – tape, pegs, paper, paint, stones, and her signature blue string – to manufacture magic. ~ Sebastian Smee, Boston Globe [10]
...Sze seizes the occasion [of representing her country at the Venice Biennale]-rarely afforded a young artist—to dismantle a whole gamut of prevailing definitions of sculpture ~ Benjamin H.D Buchloh, Artforum [11]
...Timekeeper pushes aside, implicitly politicizes, even parodies, single perspectives and objective experience, to hint at a complex and profoundly mutual relation with all the moving bodies in and of the world. ~ Katy Siegel, Catalog essay for Timekeeper at the Rose Museum, Waltham, MA
...As the United States representative to last summer's [2013] Venice Biennale, Sarah Sze orchestrated a masterly series of installations in the American pavilion. Insidiously undermining the pavilion's grand Palladian architecture and its intimations of empire, her sprawling project "Triple Point" confused indoors with out: It opened up side entrances and hidden spaces, spread like kudzu along the building's roof and crept into a storage closet in the rotunda.  ~ Karen Rosenberg, The New York Times [12]
…Sze gathers fragments of all kinds to produce new totalities. Destruction is a precondition for creation, and Sze captures those moments when the imagination turns wreckage into art.  ~Alfred Mac Adam, ArtNews [13]
...Contrasting the geometric with the organic, the industrial with the natural, and the domestic with the wild, Sze takes her work and the viewer to new heights. ~Paul Laster, Time Out New York [14]
...Ms. Sze seeks to counter the presentational quality intrinsic to a gallery: a white-walled stage. Her hope, instead, is for people to feel as if they stopped by her studio, and she had only recently left the room. ~Robin Pogrebin The New York Times [15]
...Sarah Sze's detailed, microscopic view of the world implanted in the US pavilion is perhaps the strongest and most confident treatment of that space I have seen in years. ~Okwui Enwezor ArtForum [16]

Art market

Sze is represented by Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York[17] and Victoria Miro Gallery in London.[18]

Personal life

Sze lives in New York City with her husband, Siddhartha Mukherjee, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Emperor of All Maladies, and their two daughters.[19][20]

Notable exhibitions

Museum collections

Awards and Grants

Teaching

References

  1. ↑ Official website
  2. ↑ http://www.tanyabonakdargallery.com/artists/sarah-sze/series
  3. ↑ http://www.tanyabonakdargallery.com/artists/sarah-sze/series
  4. ↑ http://www.victoria-miro.com/artists/33-sarah-sze/
  5. ↑ Oh, Inae (14 May 2012). "Second Avenue Subway Public Art Project Commissions Chuck Close, Sarah Sze, Jean Shin". Huffington Post. Retrieved 3 October 2012.
  6. ↑ Ben Yakas (2014-01-22). "Here's What The Second Avenue Subway Will Look Like When It's Filled With Art". Gothamist. Retrieved 2014-05-05.
  7. ↑ Halperin, Julia (June 2, 2012). "A Preview of the MTA's Ultra-Contemporary Public Art for New York's Second Avenue Subway Line". Blouin Art Info. Retrieved May 15, 2014.
  8. ↑ "Subway Art on the Future Second Avenue Subway Line Revealed". Untapped Cities. 2014-04-28. Retrieved 2014-05-15.
  9. ↑ Lynch, Marley (2014-01-23). "The future Second Avenue subway line will have cool art (slide show)". Timeout.com. Retrieved 2014-05-15.
  10. ↑ Smee, Sebastian. "Sarah Sze's beguiling art? It's about time.".
  11. ↑ Benjamin, Buchloh. "The Entropic Encyclopedia" (PDF).
  12. ↑ Rosenberg, Karen. "In Slender Filaments, a Cosmos Distilled".
  13. ↑ Mac Adam, Alfred. "SARAH SZE AT TANYA BONAKDAR".
  14. ↑ Laster, Paul. "Sarah Sze".
  15. ↑ Pogrebin, Robin. "Sarah Sze Aims for Precise Randomness in Installing Her Gallery Show".
  16. ↑ Enwezor, Okwui. "Predicaments of Culture" (PDF).
  17. ↑ "tanya bonakdar gallery :: artists". Retrieved 3 October 2012.
  18. ↑ "Sarah Sze – Artists – Victoria Miro". Retrieved 3 October 2012.
  19. ↑ "An Oncologist Writes 'A Biography Of Cancer'". NPR. November 17, 2010. Retrieved 3 October 2012.
  20. ↑ Shapin, Steven (November 8, 2010). "The modern history of cancer : The New Yorker". The New Yorker. Retrieved 3 October 2012.
  21. ↑ Sarah Sze: Tilting Planet from Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, accessed on 12 November 2016.

Further reading

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