Sara Cwynar: Glass Life Limited-Edition Box Set

Aperture is delighted to present a special limited-edition box set of Sara Cwynar: Glass Life, on the occasion of the publication of the first comprehensive monograph to date of this Canadian-born, New York-based multidisciplinary artist. Bringing together Cwynar’s multilayered portraits and stills from her films Soft Film (2016), Rose Gold (2017), and Red Film (2018), Glass Life serves as a feminist-inflected investigation of color, cultural theory, and image-driven consumer culture. Cwynar’s research-driven and visually complex images constitute the hallmarks of contemporary post–Pictures Generation work—in which photography is pursued in relation to film, sculpture, digital culture, and the cultural and technological history of image-making. Her work revolves around her interest in subjective notions of beauty through images; the fetishization of consumer objects and colors; and the exploration of the informal image archives that have emerged around the industrialization and capitalization of these ideas. As part of her core practice, Cwynar collects, arranges, and archives found objects and eBay purchases. She creates studio assemblages of these consumer objects, exploring how images circulate online—and how the lives and purposes of physical objects and their likenesses change over time. This special limited-edition box set comprises a differentiated version of the monograph accompanied by an 8-by-10-inch C-print signed by the artist on the verso.

Hardback differentiated edition of Sara Cwynar: Glass Life accompanied by a C-Print, presented in a clamshell case
Print Title: Adam & Eve, Wrestlers, Sigrid’s Eye, and Model from SSENSE.com, 2021
Image Size: 8 x 10 inches
Paper Size: 8 x 10 inches
Edition of 15 + 3 Artist Proofs
Signed and numbered by the artist

Sara Cwynar (b. 1985, Vancouver, British Columbia) graduated with a bachelor of design honors degree from York University in Toronto in 2010. After working as a freelance graphic designer for the New York Times, she earned an MFA in photography from Yale University in 2016. Her debut solo US museum exhibition, Sara Cwynar: Image Model Muse, opened at the Minneapolis Institute of Art in September 2018, prior to traveling to the Milwaukee Art Museum. Cwynar’s Red Film (2018) was included in the 2018 São Paulo Biennial, and she completed a residency at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine, in summer 2018. In June 2019, the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut, opened Gilded Age, a solo show of her work. Cwynar has independently published several artist books, including Kitsch Encyclopedia (Blonde Art Books, 2014) and Pictures of Pictures (Printed Matter, 2014). She is represented by Foxy Production, New York; Cooper Cole Gallery, Toronto; and The Approach, London. The largest installation of her work was on view at the Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada through August 2021.