Sara Garden Armstrong is a visual artist whose creative research/practice spans a wide range of mediums and techniques, from large site-specific sculpture to artist’s books. Her work addresses organic change and transformation while exploring properties of materials, resulting in nature-based biomorphic abstraction. Layered two-dimensional work and sculptural installations that often incorporate video projection and sound, focus on life processes such as breathing and support systems of the body.
Other recurrent themes are water, time, and shifts of reality, with their elements of chance and change.
Former atrium commissions have focused on scientific phenomena and their interactions with the human condition, such as the installation for the National Multiple Sclerosis
Society at the University of Alabama Birmingham (UAB) Medical Center. A past recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation CALL (Creating a Living Legacy) grant through Space One Eleven, Armstrong’s national and international exhibition record extends over aperiod of more than 40 years. Her artist’s books can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, among others.