For this week’s research post I decided to research the artist Sarah Sze. She was born in Boston in 1969 and attended Milton Academy, Yale University, and School of Visual Arts. She is currently a notable professor of visual arts at Columbia University. Sarah is an American artist who focuses on challenging the limitations of paintings, sculptures, and installations. She creates works from references that cannot be captured in the world by a camera. Ideas can often be limited to reference photos and her work and, to me, feels like something out of an abstract dream. Her work is influences by Futurists, Cubists, and her love for Russian Constructivists. Her installations in particular, draws from Modernist traditions of a found object and then builds large-scale installations using ideas from said object(s). Some notable mentions: Sze represented the United States at the Venice Biennale in 2013. She also won the MacArther Fellowship in 2003. Her Contemporary use of collage, space, and architecture will continue to help other artists “challenge” their own artistic limitations.

12 Landscapes (After Object), 2019 Hidden Relief, 2001