Please join us in hearing from artist Sara Black on Wednesday, January 15th, at 4:30 PM in the ART Building, Room 158.
Sara Black’s artwork uses conscious processes of building or horticulture as a time-based method; diseased wood, ecosystem-specific trees/plants, inherited building materials, or other exhausted objects as material; and creates works that expose the complex ways in which things and people are suspended in worlds together. Her work interrogates the fallacy of individualism to imagine entangled and survivable futures. Sara collaborates with artist Amber Ginsburg, political theorist Sam Frost, and digital artist Marc Downie. She is a member of Deep Time Chicago and the woodworking collective Project Fielding serving femme and nonbinary woodworkers. Sara received her MFA from the University of Chicago in 2006 and is currently an Associate Professor of Sculpture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art and Smart Museum of Art, New York’s Park Avenue Armory, Boston’s Tuft University Gallery, made possible through the generous support of Minneapolis’ Soap Factory, and the Thailand Biennial.
Sara Black
The artist talk and visit are made possible through the generous support of the Carmen Morton Christensen Endowment, the Department of Art & Art History, and the College of Fine Arts.
Parking information can be found by visiting the Gittins Gallery page.
