Sarah Sze - Tapa dura

With her uncanny ability to monumentalize the miniscule and to give permanence to the ephemeral, Sarah Sze has become one of the most original and ambitious artists working today, with solo exhibitions at major art musuems. As the first monograph to span the course of her career including sculptures, site-specific installations, and drawings, Sarah Sze reveals the artist's working process and gives insight into the thoughtful precision and care that goes into each and every one of her creations.Elaborately transforming everyday materials into elegant sculptures and installations, Sze eloquently finesses the line between sculpture and architecture. In her essay, writer and curator Linda Norden explores the question of how matter takes on value, both temporally and spatially. With its stunning photography, Sarah Sze makes it clear that the exhilarating and challenging aspect of this artist's work lies in all of its minute details.

Sarah Sze has exhibited nationally and internationally since 1996. Recent solo exhibitions include the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Her work has been included in group show venues such as the Serpentine Gallery in London, and the Venice Biennale. She is a 2003 MacArthur Fellow and was granted a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Competition Award in 1999. Sze received her bachelor's from Yale College in 1991 and her master of fine arts from the School of Visual Arts in 1997. She is currently an officer at the School of Arts at Columbia University and a fellow at the Radcliff Institute. Linda Norden, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Fogg Art Museum since 1998, also teaches in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University. Prior to moving to Boston, Norden was instrumental in the development of the Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies in Art and Contemporary Culture, where she also taught art history and criticism.