Sarah Sze
Sarah Sze is an American sculpture born in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1991, Sze received her BA from Yale University and her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in 1997. She has received many awards, including the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Award, Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, and the Radcliffe Institute Fellowship.
Sze builds installations and intricate sculptures using mundane materials and methods. She incorporates painting and architectural elements into her installations and sculptures. Her work probes in to the meanings and values we as a society place on objects. Sze creates installations that transform space with everyday materials, often creating miniatures in a fractal-like way on an architectural scale.
The first image on the left is Sarah Sze's "Dark Matter" installation from 2012. It's a mixed media piece. The image on the right is her "Triple Point (Planetarium" installation from 2013. There was a mixture of wood, steel, plastic, stone, string, fans, projectors, and other mixed media. I really enjoy the variety of materials she uses to create her work, and how much thought is put into each piece. The complexity of each piece seems overwhelming, but captures your attention and makes the viewer look longer to try and figure out what it is and what it is about.
Sze builds installations and intricate sculptures using mundane materials and methods. She incorporates painting and architectural elements into her installations and sculptures. Her work probes in to the meanings and values we as a society place on objects. Sze creates installations that transform space with everyday materials, often creating miniatures in a fractal-like way on an architectural scale.
The first image on the left is Sarah Sze's "Dark Matter" installation from 2012. It's a mixed media piece. The image on the right is her "Triple Point (Planetarium" installation from 2013. There was a mixture of wood, steel, plastic, stone, string, fans, projectors, and other mixed media. I really enjoy the variety of materials she uses to create her work, and how much thought is put into each piece. The complexity of each piece seems overwhelming, but captures your attention and makes the viewer look longer to try and figure out what it is and what it is about.
John Bisbee
John Bisbee is an American sculpture in Maine. He is currently the professor at Bowdoin College. He attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and received his BFA from Alfred University. In 2006 Bisbee received the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant. He has also received the Maine State Individual Artist Grant, the Purchase Prize and William Thon Juror's Prize through Portland's Biennial Exhibition.
Bisbee is known for his eccentricity and creative approach to sculpture. He explores geometric forms, which allow the viewer to glimpse at the basic substructure of the universe. There is a certain perfection to his work, which examines how using the same material can be used to create a range of forms and volumes. He spends hundreds of hours welding steel nails in repeating patterns to construct a representation of natural growth and change. Bisbee's work is unique and he is known for arranging each sculpture to the area it is being exhibited, always ensuring it suits the location.
In his work "Infinity Pool" and "Blocks" you can see a few noticeable differences. In "Infinity Pool" you see how the differently sized nails produce a dense figure."Blocks" demonstrates how Bisbee is able to construct a form and change the value by varying the spacing of each nail. In both works, the viewer can see how a simple twist or bend can modify the feel and concept of the work.
Bisbee is known for his eccentricity and creative approach to sculpture. He explores geometric forms, which allow the viewer to glimpse at the basic substructure of the universe. There is a certain perfection to his work, which examines how using the same material can be used to create a range of forms and volumes. He spends hundreds of hours welding steel nails in repeating patterns to construct a representation of natural growth and change. Bisbee's work is unique and he is known for arranging each sculpture to the area it is being exhibited, always ensuring it suits the location.
In his work "Infinity Pool" and "Blocks" you can see a few noticeable differences. In "Infinity Pool" you see how the differently sized nails produce a dense figure."Blocks" demonstrates how Bisbee is able to construct a form and change the value by varying the spacing of each nail. In both works, the viewer can see how a simple twist or bend can modify the feel and concept of the work.
Anila Quayyum Agha
Anila Agha is a Pakistani-American whose work explores social and gender roles, global politics, cultural multiplicity, and mass media. In 1989, she received her BFA at National College of Arts in Pakistan. Afterwards, she earned her MFA in Fiber Arts at the University of North Texas in 2004. In 2014, she won the international art competition Artprize. She won both the public vote and the juried vote, which was a first in Artprize's history.
Agha's work focuses on her experiences living within the boundaries of different faiths and countries. She explores the cultural and social issues that patriarchal societies place on women. She also shares her experience as a immigrant, and how the alienation and transience has affected her. Her drawings and paintings use multiple textile practices like embroidery, wax, dyes, and silk-screen printing. Her use of embroidery in drawings serve as a link between modern materials and traditional servitude and oppression. She challenges the gendering role of textile work, and its exclusion as an art form. Her memories of exclusion began her process of examining the issues that arise when one is excluded. Agha wants her work to include everyone, regardless of their race, gender, or ethnicity.
In 2013, she began working with light and shadow and created "Intersections." It was a 6.5 foot laser-cut wood cube that encased a light bulb. Agha relies on the symmetry of the pattern and how the cast shadows are interpreted. Many of the patterns she creates are based on ancient Islamic geometric patterns and Islamic interlace patterns. The Moorish patterns are inspired by Alhambra, where the Islamic and Christian worlds intersect.
Agha's work focuses on her experiences living within the boundaries of different faiths and countries. She explores the cultural and social issues that patriarchal societies place on women. She also shares her experience as a immigrant, and how the alienation and transience has affected her. Her drawings and paintings use multiple textile practices like embroidery, wax, dyes, and silk-screen printing. Her use of embroidery in drawings serve as a link between modern materials and traditional servitude and oppression. She challenges the gendering role of textile work, and its exclusion as an art form. Her memories of exclusion began her process of examining the issues that arise when one is excluded. Agha wants her work to include everyone, regardless of their race, gender, or ethnicity.
In 2013, she began working with light and shadow and created "Intersections." It was a 6.5 foot laser-cut wood cube that encased a light bulb. Agha relies on the symmetry of the pattern and how the cast shadows are interpreted. Many of the patterns she creates are based on ancient Islamic geometric patterns and Islamic interlace patterns. The Moorish patterns are inspired by Alhambra, where the Islamic and Christian worlds intersect.