{"id":13548,"date":"2023-02-24T16:48:47","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T21:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/?p=13548"},"modified":"2023-02-24T17:30:27","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T22:30:27","slug":"sara-garden-armstrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/praxis\/sara-garden-armstrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Sara Garden Armstrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Sara Garden Armstrong<\/a> is a visual artist whose decades-long practice embraces a wide range of scales and techniques, from large site-specific sculpture to artist\u2019s books. Lyrical, nature-based biomorphic abstraction characterizes the work, focusing on life processes and systems. It addresses organic change and transformation, while exploring properties of materials. Breathing is a major concern, as are mechanical support systems of the body. Other recurrent themes are water and time, with its elements of decay, chance, and shifts of reality.<\/p>\n

Recent atrium commissions have focused on scientific phenomena and their interactions with the human condition such as the installation for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Alabama-Mississippi Chapter, at the University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB) Medical Center. A past recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation CALL (Creating a Living Legacy) grant through Space One Eleven, Armstrong has exhibited nationally and internationally for over 40 years. Her artist\u2019s books can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, among others.<\/p>\n

The monograph SARA GARDEN ARMSTRONG: Threads and Layers, published in 2020, reveals the influences and concepts that run through her diverse body of work. It coincides with a traveling exhibition of the same name, incorporating site-specific work. The exhibition made its final stop at the Gadsden Museum of Art, January 2023. The Museum published a catalog documenting the history of the exhibition.<\/p>\n

Armstrong received her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Alabama and a Master of Art Education from UAB. After living in New York City for 36 years, in 2017 she returned to Birmingham, where she currently lives and works. She has recently received the 2022 Artist of the Year Award from the Birmingham Museum of Art Collectors Circle. Find her on Instagram<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0\"\" \"\" \"\"<\/p>\n

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