Art & its Institution: Sarah Oppenheimer

Sarah Oppenheimer is an American artist, who was born in 1972. She graduated with a BA in Semiotics from Brown University in 1995, and an MFA from Yale University in 1999.

"I felt at the time and still feelt hat the gallery is one essential context for the cultural reception of my work. What came under scrutiny in the Claire Compley work was the question of whether a work of art whose discourse disclosed the system of economic reproduction could possibly, at the same time, engender that economic reproduction for itself. Just as the work served as a model of how the gallery operated, it also served as a model for its own economic reproduction." - Michael Asher

I find the idea behind the works of Sarah Oppenheimer are almost an extension of Michael Asher.

610-3356, 2008.

MF-142, 2010.

D-17, 2010.

OE-15, 2010.

The title of the works in letters and numericals are "derived by reference to a typology or classification system created by the artist that describes, in graphic form, how the hole is perceptually perceived and the materials used to create it." Sarah Oppenheimer's artworks change the viewer's perception on art and experience of space. She uses the space in a non-traditional fashion where her artwork doesn't gaze the visitor as a painting or sculpture would, but it instead directs your gaze at different spaces. It changes the way we look at art and what we think of it.

Bibliography:

Heartney, Eleanor. Art & today. Newyork: Phaidon, 2008.

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"Rice Gallery: Sarah Oppenheimer D-17". http://www.ricegallery.org/new/exhibition/oppenheimer.html (Accessed September 21, 2010).

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"P.P.O.W: Sarah Oppenheimer". http://www.ppowgallery.com/press_reviews.php?artist=21 (Accessed September 21, 2010).