Contemporary Art Book Initiative
The mission of our initiative is to enhance accessibility and to contribute to the diversity of a deeper understanding and enjoyment of contemporary art. Inaugural release for our Contemporary Art Book Initiative is the monograph SARA GARDEN ARMSTRONG: Threads and Layers, published in 2020. It is now available as a donation to a select group of museum, university and public libraries.
ISBN: 978-1-7356559-0-1
Library of Congress: 2020916501
SARA GARDEN ARMSTRONG: Threads and Layers brings to a wider audience this multimedia artist’s diverse body of work. Illuminating essays and lavish photography reveal the connective threads that run through her impressive oeuvre of more than four decades. Bold and innovative, full of complexity and contradictions, her work ranges from interactive installations and atrium sculptures to paintings, drawings, and artist’s books. The book contains 216 pages with over 250 full-color images.
Hear from the Artist:
Sara Garden Armstrong is a visual artist whose decades-long practice embraces a wide range of scales and techniques, from large site-specific sculpture to artist’s books. Her work addresses organic change and transformation while exploring properties of materials resulting in nature-based biomorphic abstraction. The layered flat work and sculptural installations focus on life processes such as breathing and support systems of the body. Other recurrent themes are water, time, and shifts of reality, with their elements of chance and change.
“Encompassing an extraordinarily wide array of concepts and ideals, Armstrong’s work has explored microcosmic as well as macrocosmic phenomena, as it has embraced the rhythmic vicissitudes of change. It has a resounding impact for today, and vast implications for whatever tomorrow may bring.”
- David Ebony
Critic, Author, & Contributing Editor
“Armstrong hasn’t given us an easy picture of physical or behavioral characteristics specific to her art, but has rather served a lyrical impression of the kind of rapturous disorientation one often experiences within the charged primal space of her compositions.”
- Carlo McCormick
American Culture Critic, Author & Curator
The Team
“I knew that with time I could produce a good book, even if I had to publish it myself. This I decided to do, with the help of a talented team of artists, public relations professionals, photographers, writers, incredible friends, and family. The support and invaluable assistance from the numerous people who contributed to the creation of this book from start to finish were essential to its success.” - Sara Garden Armstrong
The Monograph can be found in the following Libraries: