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Sarah Sze in "Balance"
Artist Sarah Sze builds her installations and intricate sculptures from the minutiae of everyday life, imbuing mundane materials, marks, and processes with surprising significance.
In New York City’s High Line park, she strikes a balance between form and function as she creates a sculpture as post-modern bird habitat as well as a study of architectural perspective and space.
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Series Created By: Susan Dowling & Susan Sollins. Executive Producer & Curator: Susan Sollins. Series Producer: Eve Moros Ortega. Associate Curator: Wesley Miller. Director of Production: Nick Ravich. Production Coordinator: Ian Forster. Consulting Director: Catherine Tatge. Editor: Mark Sutton. Director of Photography: Bob Elfstrom, Joel Shapiro, & Takahisa Araki. Additional Photography: Michael Pruitt-Bruun. Sound: Ray Day, Nick Lindner, & Roger Phenix. Assistant Camera: Amy Bench, Nicholas Early, John Marton, & Michael Pruitt-Bruun. Production Assistant: Logan Needle. Assistant Editor: Crystal De Boulet, Dahlia Fischbein, Bahron Thomas, & Alex Zustra.
Art Direction and Design: Open, New York. Online Editor: Don Wyllie. Composer: Peter Foley. Voiceover Artist: Jace Alexander. Sound Editor: Margaret Crimmins & Greg Smith. Sound Mix: Cory Melious. Sound Assistant: Steve Giammaria. Artwork Animation: Frank Ferrigno. Graphics Animation: Urosh Perishic.
Artworks Courtesy of: Rackstraw Downes; Sarah Sze; @2012 Robert Mangold / Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York; Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York; Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York; & The Pace Gallery, New York.
Special Thanks: The Art21 Board of Trustees; Mike Barnett; Douglas Baxter; Cannon Design; Pat Casteel; Chinati Foundation; Charlotte Cohen; Ralph Cuccurullo; Keith Eland; Philip Ennik; Friends of the High Line; General Services Administration; Sarah Goulet; Anke Jackson; Samara Levenstein; Sheila Lynch; Mascaro Construction; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Nice, France; Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY; Sylvia Plimack Mangold; Jim Powell; Emily Ruotolo; Mark Segal; Keith Shapiro; Ethan Sklar; Lauren Staub; & Steve Wylie.
Curatorial Advisory Council: Rachel Blackburn Cozad, Kris Douglas, Gary Garrels, Karen Higa, Margo Machida, Marti Mayo, Jill Medvedow, Anne Pasternack, John Ravenal, Paul Schimmel, Katy Siegel, & Judith Tannenbaum.
Additional Art21 Staff: Daniel Barrett, Carrie Caroselli, KC Forcier, Joe Fusaro, Jessica Hamlin, Claudine Isé, Marc Mayer, Jonathan Munar, Heather Reyes, Kelly Shindler, Sara Simonson, & Diane Vivona.
Interns: Alex Abelson, Paulina V. Ahlstrom, Don Edler, Lucy Healy-Kelly, Clara Jo, David Levine, Maren Miller, Molly Nathan, Tayo Ogunbiyi, & Persis Singh. Bookkeeper: Valerie Riley.
Public Relations: DKC Public Relations. Station Relations: De Shields Associates, Inc. Legal Counsel: Albert Gottesman.
Major underwriting for Season 6 of Art in the Twenty-First Century is provided by The National Endowment for the Arts, PBS, Agnes Gund, Bloomberg, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, The Broad Art Foundation, The Japan Foundation, Toby Devan Lewis.
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Sarah Sze builds her installations and intricate sculptures from the minutiae of everyday life, imbuing mundane materials, marks, and processes with surprising significance. By arranging domestic detritus and office supplies into fantastical miniatures, she builds her works, fractal-like, on an architectural scale. Whether adapting to a site or disrupting the urban fabric, Sze’s patchwork compositions mirror the improvisational quality of cities, balancing whimsy with ecological themes of interconnectivity and sustainability.
“…Ten minutes of observation is an incredibly long time for a person. And this idea of slowing down and really observing, I think it’s a really interesting idea also for visual art.”
Sarah Sze
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