LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies

Sarah Sze's first introduction to printmaking came through building a project at the Neiman Center in 2001. The artist produced the most complicated prints yet published by the Center: using dozens of layers of color offset lithography and silkscreen, she built up the images much as she constructs her sculptures. Her ambitious pair, Day and Night, reflect each other in size and scope and each show intricately mapped out skies. They are composed with a careful, architectural line that allows the two-dimensional imagery to hover in a complex, astrological space.

" These works investigate movement, disintegration, and disorientation. Here I wanted to enter a two-dimensional frame and find a location that is entropic, fragmenting, spinning, and adrift. These drawings frame a fragment of a larger system that could potentially expand beyond the frame. They start from an exploration of atmosphere, fleeting situations, and environments with a specific kind of weather." (quote from Sarah Sze: Infinite Line exhibition list, Asia Society).

On works like Notepad, the artist writes, "I am interested in an object or image that plays with the state of its own existence; for example, a pad of paper that is carefully printed rather than mass produced, or a collage that seems to be falling apart as much as coming together, in other words, its parts are holding the picture plane together and yet still maintaining their identity (as a rock or an envelope)." or a notepad....(quote from Sarah Sze: Infinite Line exhibition list, Asia Society).

Sze returned to the Center in 2011-12 to explore the architecture of sight with a decontextualized study on the Ishihara color blindness test. The two projects editioned, 2 (a set of 6 prints) and Eyechart, play off elements found in her recent sculptural site specific works in her solo exhibition Infinite Line. The entire group of Neiman Center publications have been installed in this solo exhibition which was by the Asia Society, from December 13 - March 25, 2012.

Asia Society link to Sze solo exhibition:
http://sites.asiasociety.org/sarahsze/