Sarah Sze is a contemporary American installation artist. Her large-scale sculptures often employs found objects, plants, photographs, wiring, and food detritus. Sze constructs her work by hand, building intricate and often gravity-defying towers that fill entire exhibition spaces. The organic and transitional state of her work suggests something in the process of growth and decay. “I am aware people might dismiss my art, but I'm interested in getting them to stop and look; for no other reason than that is what I do,” she has reflected. Born in 1969 in Boston, MA, she completed her BA in architecture and painting at Yale University before receiving her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in 1997. Sze is the recipient of the 2003 MacArthur Fellowship...