Sara VanDerBeek

Overview

Sara VanDerBeek (b. 1976) lives and works in New York, NY. Through experimentation with photography and sculpture, she addresses the nature of representation – particularly of the female form – from antiquity through to our present moment. VanDerBeek considers how this particular media, oft associated with the solidification of subjects in time, can be destabilized. She ultimately asks: how do we represent and see something that is in flux? VanDerBeek materializes this predicament by enlivening archives of objects and images. This process allows her to incorporate a range of overlapping temporal, optical, and ontological schema in her work.In doing so, she actively reconsiders the physical, historically grounded space of sculpture and photography, repositioning her subject matter, often women, within novel, unstable, and transformative visual fields.

Documents

Works

Sara VanDerBeek
Lace Interlace I-IV, 2024
Four parts: UV print on plexiglass, dye sublimation print mounted on aluminum, Valchromat, zinc-plated steel
75 x 27 x 1 1/2 in each
190.5 x 68.6 x 3.8 cm
Edition of 1 plus 1 artist's proof
Sara VanDerBeek
Future Variations, 2021
Two sided dye sublimation print
48 x 24 in
121.9 x 61 cm
Edition of 3 plus 1 artist's proof
Sara VanDerBeek
Roman Woman XXXVIV, 2020
Dye sublimation print on Neoprene, with extruded plastic
72 x 12 x 12 in
182.9 x 30.5 x 30.5 cm
Sara VanDerBeek
Roman Woman XXIII, 2019
Dye sublimation print on aluminum mounted on plexiglass

72 x 48 in
182.9 x 121.9 cm
Edition of 3 plus 1 artist's proof
Sara VanDerBeek
Setting Sun V, 2017
Two layered digital C-prints
20 x 14 1/2 in
50.8 x 36.8 cm
Framed: 20 1/2 x 15 in
52.1 x 38.1 cm
Edition of 3 plus 1 artist's proof
Sara VanDerBeek
Labyrinth, 2016
Two digital C-prints
Each: 96 7/8 x 48 7/8 in
246.1 x 124.1 cm
Edition of 3
Sara VanDerBeek
Evening Form, 2014
Digital C-print
24 x 18 in
61 x 45.7 cm

Edition of 6 plus 2 artist's proofs
Sara VanDerBeek
Baltimore Aphrodite, 2013
Digital C-print
84 x 46 1/2 in
213.36 x 118.11 cm
Framed: 85 1/4 x 47 1/2 in
216.5 x 120.7 cm
Edition of 3 (#1/3)
Sara VanDerBeek
XXXVI, 2013
Fiberglass reinforced plaster
108 x 9 x 9 in
274.32 x 22.86 x 22.86 cm
Sara VanDerBeek
Caryatid, 2010
C-print
74 x 48 in
187.96 x 121.92 cm
Edition of 3 (#3/3)
Sara VanDerBeek
Dancer Study I (Merce Cunningham), 2010
C-print
60 x 44 in
152.4 x 111.76 cm
Edition of 3 (#2/3)
Sara VanDerBeek
From the Means of Reproduction, 2007
Chromogenic print
40 x 30 in
101.6 x 76.2 cm
Edition of 3 plus 1 artist's proof