11 Facts About Sabrina Gschwandtner

Sabrina Gschwandtner was born on 1977 and is an American artist currently living in Los Angeles, California.

Sabrina Gschwandtner has held numerous showings of her work throughout the country and several pieces have been acquired by museums, including LACMA, the Walker Art Center, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the RISD Museum, among others.

Sabrina Gschwandtner studied at the Sommerakademie fur Bildende Kunst in Salzburg, Austria under the direction of Valie Export and with Vlada Petric, founder of the Harvard Film Archive.

Sabrina Gschwandtner sews together filmstrips to create a quilt-like textile.

Sabrina Gschwandtner often installs her work in front of LED lights.

Sabrina Gschwandtner has made several works in a "crazy quilt" pattern.

Sabrina Gschwandtner makes astute use of color, mixing vivid stretches of jade, yellow and cerulean with the faded hues of old footage, all accented with black countdown leader and lengths of toned emptiness.

For example, Sabrina Gschwandtner created "Crochet Film" specifically for a show "Group Loop," put together by Christoph Cox about repetition and cycles.

Sabrina Gschwandtner's piece featured two loops, one, a film of the artist crocheting and the other a crocheted piece representing a film loop.

Sabrina Gschwandtner redefines craft in textiles and the art of filmmaking by bringing these elements together into a professional art scene.

Sabrina Gschwandtner's work has been exhibited worldwide at institutions, such as the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Museum of Arts and Design, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and the Victoria and Albert Museum.