Working at the Neiman Center was Sarah Sze's introduction to printmaking. Undaunted, she produced three of the most complicated prints yet published at the Center: using dozens of layers of color lithography and silkscreen, she built up the images much as she constructs her sculptures. Her ambitious pair, Day and Night, reflect each other in size and scope and each show intricately mapped out skies. They are composed with a careful, architectural line that allows the two-dimensional imagery to hover in a complex, astrological space.
Sarah Sze was born in 1969 in Boston. She received a BA from Yale University in 1991 and in 1997 earned an MFA at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Sze is known for constructing complex and expansive site-specific installations with a meticulous eye for detail. She inserts physical debris from everyday life (such as light bulbs, cables, strings, bungee cords, Q-Tips, lenses and pills) into structures that careen from floor to ceiling and through windows and walls, transforming the spaces they occupy into three-dimensional drawings. Holland Cotter, writing in the New York Times, called her work "reverse-heroic tinkering made sublime." Sze has had solo exhibitions across the United States and Europe and has shown her work in numerous national and international group exhibitions, including the São Paulo, Whitney, and Venice biennials. In 2003 Sze was a recipient of the prestigious MacArthur Fellowship. She is represented by the Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York.
