Sarah Vanderlip: Eleven

Vanderlip has worked in sculpture, collage, video, and installation often drawing directly from close personal and familial experiences. Eleven is an installation that reinterprets an exhibition, “Two,” that Vanderlip did in New York at XL Gallery in 1999, in which she created a play space in the gallery for her 2 year old son. Throughout the exhibition he spent time in the space, making it his own until the final day of the show when the piece was completed.

Almost a decade later Vanderlip recreates the piece based on a design entirely conceived by her now eleven year old son. Before the show opens he and his friends will spend time in the piece and how they leave it will be the first incarnation of the work. Echoing the body cast of her son she made for the first incarnation of the piece, Vanderlip has editioned a cast of a phallic-shaped light bulb in red rubber that represents his presence in the work when he is not physically in it. When the piece opens to the public, it will serve as a medium for collaboration between artist, subject and viewer—inviting play and investigation over the course of the show.

Sarah Vanderlip lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, has taught at UCLA and is currently teaching at California State University, Bakersfield. She has shown her work internationally, including exhibitions at White Columns, New York; XL Xavier La Boullbenne, New York; L.A.C. Lieu d'Art Contemporain, Sigean, France; Bonelli Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA; Galerie Jacques Girard, Toulouse, France.