Background
Sandback was born in Bronxville, New York, United States, on August 29, 1943.
19 Payson Ave, Easthampton, MA 01027, USA
Williston Northampton School.
Gymnasiumstraße 70, 74072 Heilbronn, Germany
Theodor Heuss Gymnasium.
New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Yale University, Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts.
1156 Chapel St, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
Yale School of Art.
2000
Fred Stanback, installation (in progress), Annemarie Verna Galerie.
Fred Sandback in his studio.
Fred Sandback working in his studio
Fred Stanback creating.
Fred Sandback.
Fred Sandback.
2000
Fred Stanback, installation (in progress), Annemarie Verna Galerie.
New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Yale University, Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts.
1156 Chapel St, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
Yale School of Art.
19 Payson Ave, Easthampton, MA 01027, USA
Williston Northampton School.
Gymnasiumstraße 70, 74072 Heilbronn, Germany
Theodor Heuss Gymnasium.
Fred Sandback in his studio.
Fred Sandback working in his studio
Fred Stanback creating.
Fred Sandback.
Fred Sandback.
Fred Sandback.
artist printmaker sculptor installator
Sandback was born in Bronxville, New York, United States, on August 29, 1943.
Fred Sandback was interested in music from a young age, which is often credited with having a lasting influence on his art. Between 1957 and 1961 Sandback was a student of the Williston Northampton School, Easthampton, Massachusetts. During 1961-1962 he attended Theodor Heuss Gymnasium, Heilbronn, Germany.
Sandback received his Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Yale University in 1966. Then he studied sculpture at the Yale School of Art, obtaining a Master of Fine Arts in 1969. Among his instructors were Donald Judd and Robert Morris, important American artists. They fostered his interest in Minimalism.
Sandback began exhibiting his work with his two solo shows taking place in Germany in 1968, at Konrad Fischer Galerie and Galerie Heiner Friedrich. Since then, his work has been exhibited constantly all over the world. Sandback's artworks were presented in the 1968 Annual Exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Biennale of Sydney in 1976, and the Seventy-third American Exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1979. Meanwhile, in 1972 Fred Sandback rejected elastic cord in favor of acrylic yarn as his main medium.
In 2003 he had a permanent installation of yarn sculptures at Dia's museum, Beacon, New York. The same year, he produced Mikado (Sculptural Study for the Pinakothek der Moderne) at the newly opened Pinakothek der Moderne.
Fred Sandback was one of the artists sponsored by the Dia Art Foundation. It allowed him to found the Fred Sandback Museum, an institution dedicated to his own artworks, which is located in Winchendon, Massachusetts. Other solo museum exhibitions of the artist’s work included: Kunsthaus Zürich (1985), Dia Center for the Arts, New York (1996-1997), Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz (2005-2006), etc.
Fred Sandback was a forerunner of and a major influence on many of today’s installation artists. Today, Sandback’s work can be found in many public and private collections worldwide, including the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid and The Museum of Modern Art in New York.
In the year 2007 the Fred Sandback Archive, a non-profit organization, was set up to create and maintain an archival resource on Sandback's work. At Christie's New York, Sandback's four-part installation Untitled (1968) was sold for $266,500 in November 2010.
Untitled
Untitled (Vertical Corner Piece) RLL
Untitled (Sculptural Study, Two-part Vertical Construction)
Untitled (Wall Construction)
Untitled (Leaning Vertical Construction)
Blue Day-glo Corner Piece
Untitled (Sculptural Study, Six-part Construction) (detail)
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled (Trapezoid)
Untitled (Diagonal Cornered Construction)
Quotations:
"The line is a whole, an identity, for a particular place and time."
"No doubt every person visiting an exhibition can react to it in a different way, My marks are the gap between the spectator and the space that allow him to create his own conception of reality."
