Art Department Faculty Quadrennial Exhibition 2016 January 2016

Sarah FitzSimons Assistant Professor UW–Madison Department of Art, since 2011 Sculpture 22 Quadrennial 2016 | Faculty 2005 Master of Fine Arts, University of California, Los Angeles 2000 Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Fine Arts, Ohio University Recent achievements 2015 Between Places, group show, SOIL Gallery, Seattle 2015 Rooms to Let: CLE, group show, Slavic Village, Cleveland 2015 Waterways, group show, James Watrous Gallery, Madison, WI 2015 Invited Artist Talk, Cleveland Institute of Art 2014 Djerassi Program, Outdoor Installation and Residency, Woodside, CA 2014 The Simona and Bill Martin Harvest Circle Fellowship, Djerassi Program, Woodside, CA 2013 Poste–Video Arte, group show, Extéril Gallery, Porto, Portugal 2013 Wisconsin Triennial, group show, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI 2013 Invited Artist Talk, Instituto Superior Técnico (National School of Architecture), Lisbon, Portugal 2013 Invited Artist Talk, Residency Unlimited in partnership with Arte Institute, Brooklyn, NY 2013 Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship, Indianapolis Artist’s statement Originally from Cleveland, Sarah FitzSimons is a visual artist whose project-based work typically involves a sculpture, installed outdoors or indoors, which interacts with and derives meaning from its surroundings. She interprets and reframes this process through photography, video, and storytelling, and much of the work seeks to connect our constructed culture and daily lives with the wider patterns of nature and geologic time. FitzSimons works first and foremost in and with three-dimensional space, and a core question that drives her research is: How can an object affect the space around it? Just as the form and bulk of a mountain range creates its own weather, how can art alter the space (including physical, emotional, aesthetic, social, and psychological space) around it? Work in the show Sarah FitzSimons (American, b. 1977) House for Djerassi, 2014 Digital photographs, 25 ½ x 17 in., each of three (Illustrated)

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