Sarah Sze

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Born in 1969, Sarah Sze received a BA from Yale University in 1991 and in 1997 earned an MFA at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She currently lives in New York and is a professor at Columbia University School of the Arts. Recognized for her complex, site-specific installations of objects from the everyday, her works are three-dimensional drawings that consistently push the boundaries of the medium at hand and challenge a viewer’s sense of space. Sze has had solo exhibitions across the United States and Europe and has been represented in international group exhibitions and art biennales in Sao Paulo, Venice and at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Her works are in the public collections of leading international institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Guggenheim Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Walker Art Center, Cartier Foundation, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

Notepad (2008)
Offset color lithography, laser engraving on Somerset Bookweave,
Strathmore Bristol, Archival Bookboard
57 x 28 x 20.3 cm / 22 1⁄2 x 11 x 8 in. (notepad)
80 x 1.5 cm / 31 1⁄2 x in. (ladder) Edition of 40, 10 AP
Published by the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies, Columbia University

Notepad is a three-dimensional multiple, a site-specific sculpture composed of laser-cut paper lineated with offset lithography resembling common ledger pages. In her complex, site-specific installations, Sze typically uses the physical detritus of everyday living—cables and string, Bungee cords, Q-tips, fragmented furniture, lenses, and pills—to construct worlds that leap from floor to ceiling, through windows and walls, transforming the spaces they occupy into three-dimensional drawings. The New York Times calls her work “’r’ everse-heroic tinkering made sublime.’”’ Distinguished by a penchant for complexity, Notepad pushes the boundaries of the printmaking medium as she brings to life a notepad with stairs, ladders, railings and balconies cascading off the pages. Some of the bits of leftover paper “chads” recalling the notorious ballots of the 2000 US presidential election—lie about on the floor below, echoing the “scatter” aesthetic that characterizes many of the artists’ best – known works. Whimsically toying with scale, referring at once to architecture, sculpture and, among the most personal, of artifacts, Notepad encapsulates many issues that have concerned the artist since the start of her career.