AMoCA Collection | Brussels Monument, bronze, 9.5”x15.25”x1.5”, 2012
RAIR | 2011-12
Sarah Bostwick | South Pasadena, Ca
Sarah Bostwick is a Los Angeles-based artist, working with ebonized hardwood, hydrocal and bronze to create relief sculptures that depict three-dimensional space while existing in it as abstract monochromatic objects. Through a process of casting and carving details of found tableaux, she brings attention to the language of objects through pictorial representation and a formal exploration of traditional materials. Sarah received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2001 and she was a fellow at the MacDowell Colony, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace Program and the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program. Her work is in the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Progressive Art Collection, Wellington Management Company and Microsoft Art Collection.
Sarah Bostwick casts and carves traditional materials, such as plaster and hardwoods, to depict minimalist landscapes and scenes of colloquial architecture in low relief. By employing light and shadow to illustrate how built landscapes are altered by their inhabitants, Bostwick seeks to comment on the language of objects. She is interested in documenting places as a type of cultural anthropology, recreating man-made forms in monochromatic miniature in an attempt to decipher these three-dimensional objects. During her year at the Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program, Bostwick has begun experimenting with the combination of traditional furniture construction techniques and finishes with low-light photographic imagery to create large scale wood reliefs. Roswell (2012), the first in the series of ebonized wood reliefs is a continuation of works cast in both hydrocal and bronze that hover between three-dimensional objects and allusions of pictorial space.
Roswell Museum and Art Center
Rair exhibition • Sarah Bostwick • April 28 - June 17, 2012
