VanDerBeek’s artistic DNA includes Max Ernst and Paul Outerbridge and contemporaries like Carol Bove, known for shelf sculptures that assemble meaning from carefully selected books and objects. Ms. VanDerBeek nails down her fragile ensembles with the camera, converting postmodern assemblage into an illusionistic fusion of collage and photomontage.Sara VanDerBeek’s adventures in set-up photography and appropriation embrace transparency and disclosure. Her works have mysteries, but their effects seem constructed before our eyes and are easily disassembled; the elements remain discreet. Ms. VanDerBeek knocks together little sculptural armatures and then photographs them, creating modernist allegories.

Education

1997 Lorenzo D’Medici School of Art Florence, Italy

1998 The Cooper Union School of Art and Science, B.F.A.

Bibliography

2006

Mack, Joshua. “Sara VanDerBeek,” Modern Painters, December 2006-January 2007, p.115, illus.

Smith, Roberta. “Dice Thrown (Will Never Annul Chance),” The New York Times, November 3,

2006, p.E34

Doran, Anne. “Dice Thrown,” Time Out New York, November 2-8, 2006, p.94, illus.

Smith, Roberta. “Sara VanDerBeek: Mirror in the Sky,” The New York Times, September 29,

2006, p. E33, illus.

“Sara VandDerBeek,” The New Yorker, September 25, 2006

O’Neill-Butler, Lauren. “Sara VanDerBeek,” Critic’s Pick, Artforum.com, September 2006, illus.

Smith, Roberta. “Trifecta,” The Listings, The New York Times, February 2006

2004

“250 People who will Affect the Future,” ID, December 2004

Nylon, March 2004

2003

Nylon, October 2003

“The Photography Issue,” Vice, June 2003

2000

“NatoArts in New York,” Frieze, November 2000

Awards

Benjamin J. Menschel Fellowship 1997

In ”A Different Kind of Idol” this accumulation casts a shadow worthy of Synthetic Cubism. In ”Ziggurat” the presentation of images takes the form of a Calder mobile. In ”Extravaganza” the motifs of several black-and-white photographs are outlined with silver glitter — a tree, a dancer, a Warhol car crash — and piled up in a way that suggests a frozen bonfire or a surfeit of glowing, fading memories.

what to Do Next…

Find more information about Sara VanDerBeek Exhibitions or looking for his paintings please visit us on
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/sara_vanderbeek.htm