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2016 Season

Presence of Labor

Sarah Kolar

On View

Jul 08–Jul 30, 2016

The work recalls the dynamic relationship between consumption and form

The Union is pleased to present Presence of Labor - an installation by Union Fellowship Alum Sarah Kolar in the Wanda D. Ewing Gallery. The work recalls the dynamic relationship between the consumption that commodity obsessed culture imposes and the form of the structures presented. Kolar explores the global production process of creating yarn to be knit into fabric to be sewn into a shirt and relates it to her large-scale fiber sculptures that evoke the process that goes into creating an individual garment.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Sarah Kolar was born and raised in Spirit Lake, Iowa. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls, Iowa in 2010. Upon graduating, she moved to Omaha where she was a fellow with the Union for Contemporary Art in the spring of 2012. She recently completed her Master of Fine Arts degree for Sculpture + Expanded Practices at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio in 2015. Kolar currently lives and works in Omaha.

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