denny Architectural Art & Design

The New School, a university in New York City offering distinguished degree, certificate, and continuing education programs in art and design, liberal arts, management and policy, and the performing arts. THE NEW SCHOOL | www.newschool.edu Lucy Skaer is an artist working in sculpture, photography, installation, printmaking, and film who displaces the familiar by manipulating scale and material. Her works embrace multiplicity and abstraction while questioning day-to-day perceptions and assumptions about the world. Through transformations of artifacts and architectural elements, Skaer's work re-imagines and rematerializes history, disorienting the viewer and calling into question the reliability of memory and history itself. Skaer's sculpture and works on paper create a linguistic system that merges subject and object, favoring open-ended gestures over specific references. Born in Cambridge, England, in 1975, Skaer lives in New York. She studied at the Glasgow School of Art and has had solo exhibitions at Murray Guy, New York; the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland; and Chisenhale Gallery, London. Skaer's work has been included in numerous international exhibitions, including the 52nd Venice Biennale, the 5th Berlin Biennale; it has also been displayed in recent group exhibitions at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; and K21 Düsseldorf. Skaer was a Turner Prize finalist in 2009 and is represented by Galerie ...