Sabrina Gschwandtner
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"Watch & See," exhibition view, 28 x 18 feet, Gustavsbergs Kontshall, Sweden, 2009. 16 mm film, cotton thread, polyamide thread.
"What is a Dress," 72 x 48 inches, 16 mm film and polyamide thread, 2009
"Quilts in Women's Lives," 72 x 48 inches, 16 mm film and polyamide thread, 2009
detail, "Quilts in Women's Lives," 72 x 48 inches, 16 mm film and polyamide thread, 2009
"Once Upon a Sunny Morning," 13.5 x 13.5 inches, 16 mm film and polyamide thread, 2009
Sabrina
Gschwandtner
Artist's Statement
I combine photographic and textile media in works that bridge the fields of contemporary art, handcraft, and material culture. I create sculpture, films, videos and installations that explore themes of tactility, time and labor. My process often begins with historical material that I reinterpret through re-staging, editing, participatory action, or architectural intervention. For my 2009-2010 film quilt series, I sew 1970s feminist films discarded from the Fashion Institute of Technology’s archives into traditional quilt patterns that are displayed on windows or light boxes.
Bio/Resume
Sabrina Gschwandtner was born in 1977 in Washington DC. She received a BA from Brown University and an MFA from Bard College. Her artwork has been exhibited internationally, at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York; the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco; the Fleming Museum, Vermont; Contemporary Arts Centre, Lithuania; Gustavsbergs Konsthall, Sweden; SculptureCenter, NY; Artists Space, NY; Socrates Sculpture Park, NY, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music, among others. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Modern Painters, the New York Review of Books, Artforum.com, Cabinet, and the New Yorker. She was awarded an International Artist’s Studio Program in Sweden (IASPIS) grant in 2009, and received MacDowell Colony fellowships in 2007 and 2004. She will participate in the upcoming Bucharest Bienniale 4 and “Hand+Made” at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston.
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