Fred Sandback

Known for sculptures that outline planes and volumes in space, American artist Fred Sandback's work is informed by a minimalist artistic vocabulary. Though Sandback employed metal wire and rod, and elastic cord in his earliest works, he soon dispensed with mass by using acrylic yarn to create sculptures that produced perceptual illusions while addressing their physical surroundings - the "pedestrian space", as Sandback called it, of everyday life. Throughout his career, yarn enabled the artist to explore the phenomenological experience of space and volume with unwavering consistency and ingenuity.