Sarah Sze, Red Rotation, Oil, acrylic, acrylic polymers, ink, aluminum, archival paper, aluminum composite, and wood, 2019-20
Artist/Maker:
Sarah Sze
Bio:
American, b. 1969
Title:
Red Rotation
Date:
2019-20
Medium:
Oil, acrylic, acrylic polymers, ink, aluminum, archival paper, aluminum composite, and wood
Dimensions:
84 × 105 × 3 1/8 in. (213.4 × 266.7 × 7.9 cm)
Credit Line:
Gift of The Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation
Accession Number:
2022-76a-c

Not On View

Sarah Sze is best known for dazzlingly intricate installations of found objects, light, and sound. She brings a similar magpie tendency and skittering energy to her work as a painter. In Red Rotation, Sze collages suggestively related images onto the surface of three wood panels. Each panel varies slightly in depth, creating a stepped progression seen when the work is viewed from the side. Cut or torn apart and then arranged in vertical stripes, the components of Red Rotation form a fragmented landscape turned ninety degrees. Its frenetic overlay of images with disparate qualities may evoke the heterogeneity of the Internet; the composition—binding together collage, screenprinting, and squeegee painting with snippets of painter’s tape— nonetheless seems delicate, handmade, and provisional.

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