Arsenal Contemporary Art New York is pleased to present work by Sarah Stevenson.

Sarah Stevenson makes graceful, voluminous, but relatively insubstantial sculptures using thread, fishing line, and wire. Resembling three-dimensional colored pencil drawings, her sculptures hover in space like spectral figures. Essentially abstract and mathematical, Stevenson’s work is often richly suggestive of natural forms as diverse as sea creatures and smoke. Although her structures are meticulously worked out in full-scale two-dimensional diagrams, once these are transformed into three-dimensional objects, their ghostly nature requires the viewer to move around them in order to be properly perceived. Stevenson explores the boundaries between drawing and sculpture, abstraction and representation, perception and imagination. This is her first exhibition in New York.

Sarah Stevenson was born in the UK in 1957. She lives and works in Montréal. Stevenson holds a BA in visual art from the University of Victoria (1984). Her extensive exhibition history in Canada is supplemented by inclusion in numerous group shows around the world, such as the Frankfurter Kunstverein in Frankfurt, the Stedlijk Museum in Amsterdam, and the Collection Lambert in Avignon. Her work is in important public and private collections in Canada, from the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal to the Canada Council Art Bank. Sarah Stevenson is represented by Blouin Division Gallery in Montréal.