 Floor Plan / Room Partition Stage Two (view from behind), 2000 drywall, velcro, cardboard 9' x 12' x 8' |
 Marketing Conversion Package - Delivery Receptacles, 2000 cardboard, cut drywall box dimensions: 31" x 34" x 5" |
 Marketing Conversion - Display Units, 2000 each cardboard panel is installed into drywall. wall dimensions: 35' x 8' x 1.3' |
 Wall Panel Notation(detail), 2000 13 wall panels and package/shelving units installed |
1. Prototype Development
In order to control the variables of the investigation, I have designed several pre-packaged building units. These units are flexible and based on materials used in conventional construction. Building units include gypsum wall panels, die cut cardboard and rubber tiles. Units allow for perforations into adjacent spaces, and protrusions from the traditionally flat wall surface. The cardboard packaging of each wall panel transforms into a shelving unit. The depth and location of shelves represents the density and direction of the movement through the site. The building components are designed for universal application.
2. Test - Site
Pedestrian traffic and human movement in a given site are recorded through video. Multiple prototypes are installed in a test site. The initial data collected determines the subsequent alterations in the site. Shelving is arranged to create a three dimensional diagram of the recorded traffic. After the site has been altered, the pedestrians enter the site again. Changes in pedestrian flow are monitored and the site is reconfigured to represent the changes in activity.
Sarah Oppenheimer
23 Clinton Street Apt. 1C
New York, NY 10002
646-602-0448
email:soppenheimer@yahoo.com
Education
| 1999 | Yale University MFA |
| 1995 | Brown University BA; Art - Semiotics. Magna cum Laude. |
Selected Exhibitions
| 2001 | Bronx Museum of the Arts, Artists
in the Marcketplace, Bronx, NY
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| 2000 | The Sculpture Center, Transposed:
Analogs of Built Space, New York, NY The College of New Jersey, Faculty Exhibition, Trenton, NJ
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| 1999 | Yale Art Gallery, Thesis
Exhibition, New Haven, CT
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| 1998 | Ostrobothnian Museum, Graafinova
'98,Vaasa, Finland Norfolk Gallery, Juried Group Show, Norfolk, CT Bangs Street Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Provincetown, MA |
| 1997 | Yale Art Gallery, Group Show:
Incoming MFA Exhibition, New Haven, CT
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| 1996 | Fine Arts Work Center, Solo
Exhibition, Provincetown, MA
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Selected Grants and Awards
| 2000-2001 | The Space Program. The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, Studio Recipient |
| 1998 | Schoelcoff Travel Grant. (China) MacDowell Colony Inc. Residency, Peterborough, NH Winter |
| 1995-6 | Fine Arts Work Center: Robert
Motherwell Fellow. Artist in residence, Provincetwon, MA
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| 1995 | Gilbert Stuart Prize in Art. Awarded through Brown University |
| 1994 & 1995 | Minnie Helen Hicks Premium in
Art Liquitex Excellence in Arts Grant |
| 1994 | Yale University, Norfolk Summer Program, Fellowship Recipient |
Additional Relevant Experience
| June 2000. Drawing Center Slide
Files. Drawing Center, New York, NY
June 2000. Principle Guest Roundtable Discussion. Co-sponsored BPS and Exit Art. Exit Art, New York, NY October 1998. Conference Panelist, "The Unmapped Body: Three Black British Artists." Yale University Art Museum, New Haven, CT |