- 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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