Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasher Lecture Series

Featuring Artist Sarah Sze
November 2, 2016 7:00 pm 11/2/2016 12:00 AM 11/2/2016 12:00 AM

Internationally recognized visual artist Sarah Sze will be the featured speaker at the annual UNT Nasher Lecture Series on Wednesday, November 2 at 7 pm. The lecture is now at capacity, but will be streamed live via the Nasher Sculpture Center's Facebook page.

 

The lecture, presented by the University of North Texas College of Visual Arts and Design, will be held at the Nasher Sculpture Center. This is the17th year of this distinguished series focused on bringing a working artist’s perspective to students and the general public.

Sarah Sze is an American artist whose work involves the use of everyday objects and materials that she arranges into teeming, sculptural arrangements and site-specific installations. New acts of discovery and encounter are encouraged in these uncanny and exquisite configurations of utilitarian objects and quotidian remnants that often stretch across floors, climb walls or hover in space. From tea bags to lightbulbs to wire, string, and ladders, her work brilliantly challenges the tangled network of things that both simplify and congest contemporary daily life.

Born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1969, Sarah Sze received a BA in Architecture and Painting from Yale in 1991 and a MFA in from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 1997. Solo shows of her work include the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Malmö Konsthall in Sweden, and the Fondation Cartier in Paris. Sze has participated in numerous national and international exhibitions including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Carnegie Museum of Art, the 48th Venice Biennial, and the Biennale de Lyon 2009. Her work can be found in museums and public collections such as the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the Walker Art Center. Sze received a Radcliffe Fellowship in 2005, and was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2003. In 2013, she represented the United States in the 55th Venice Biennale with a highly-acclaimed piece called Triple Point. She currently lives and works in New York.
















































The lecture is sponsored by the Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasher Series in Contemporary Sculpture and Criticism, endowed at UNT by Nancy A. Nasher, David H. Haemisegger and grandchildren.


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