Photography Program and Dean of the College Present
Sara VanDerBeek
Sara VanDerBeek grew up in Baltimore. Her father, Stan VanDerBeek, was an experimental filmmaker. After graduating from Cooper Union, she worked in commercial photography in London for three years, then returned to New York in 2001. In 2003 she opened Guild & Greyshkul in Soho with her brother, Johannes VanDerBeek and Anya Kielar, another Cooper graduate.
VanDerBeek is known for photographing sculptures and three-dimensional still-life assemblages of her own making, as well as for creating images of classical figures and architectural details and their relationship to space. Her work was included in "New Photography 2009" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Her first solo museum show, "To Think of Time" at the Whitney in 2010, contained photographs of still lifes with objects including funerary masks and architectural details. VanDerBeek's work is in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Brooklyn Museum,[ and the Cornell Fine Arts Museum in Winter Park, FL.
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