Sarah Sze

In American artist Sarah Sze’s intricate installations, everyday objects come together in sprawling constellations that appear paused in a moment of expansion. Incorporating elements of painting, architecture and installation, as well as materials ranging from toothpicks and tape to light bulbs and plants, Sze grapples with the infinity of universe and attempts to map it. Her works ultimately resemble models of whimsical cities or distant solar systems, seeking to define her existence as she follows a personal system of logic and continuous process of organization.

Sze was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1969. She received a BFA from Yale University in 1991 and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in 1997. She has since received many prestigious awards, including a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award and the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Award. Major exhibitions of Sze’s work have been presented at the Asia Society, the Whitney Museum of American Art and Walker Art Center, and she represented the United States at the Venice Biennale in 1991. She has identified Robert Rauschenberg, Felix González-Torres and the spatial representation of traditional Chinese landscape painting as influences in her work, while her sculptural concern with time and space is shared by her contemporary Alicja Kwade. Sze lives and works in New York City.

-       Hindsight, 2019, oil paint, acrylic paint, acrylic polymers, ink, aluminum, archival paper, Dibond, and wood

-       Split Stone (7:34), 2018, granite, stainless steel, resin and pigments

-       Small Eruption (Half-life), 2018, oil paint, acrylic paint, archival paper, adhesive, tape, ink, acrylic, polymers, shellac, water-based primer and wood