Sarah Oppenheimer
Sarah Oppenheimer is a New York City-based contemporary artist that explores the articulations and experiences of built spaces. Her work transforms the built environment to disrupt, subvert or shuffle visitors' visual and bodily experiences.
Career
Oppenheimer exhibits her work internationally. The titles of her works are generated from a numerical typology. Each digit in a title tracks transactions and flow between spatial zones, and together, form a key to the orientation of the work within the built environment.In her early exhibitions at The Drawing Center and Queens Museum, Oppenheimer explored spatial navigation and interior architecture. In the late 2000s, Oppenheimer changed the boundaries between exhibition spaces, displacing views within and outside galleries. 610-3356 used a roughly seven-foot-long hole in museum's fourth floor which tunneled down to a third-floor window with an outside view.
In D-33 and 33-D, Oppenheimer modified the boundary between three contiguous rooms, inserting a pair of slanting openings at the spaces' corners. W-120301 was Oppenheimer's first permanent work in a museum.S-399390 featuring two glass passageways that changed positions in the museum's exhibition space, modifying visitors' movements and views.
During a two-year residency at the Wexner Center for the Arts, Oppenheimer developed a human-powered apparatus, which was patented. It was used in three locations: S-281913, S-337473, and S-334473. N-01 featured a dynamic exhibition system of mechanically interconnected thresholds.