Landcraft Gardens Opens May 2nd | ‘Sculpture in the Garden’ w/ work by Artist Sarah Sze, 6.7th – 10.25th

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SCULPTURE IN THE GARDEN: SARAH SZE
LANDCRAFT GARDENS

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JUNE 7 – OCTOBER 25, 2025
EVERY FRIDAY AND SATURDAY

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MATTITUCK — The Landcraft Garden Foundation announces the 2025 season of Sculpture in the Garden debuting a new work created for the garden by the internationally acclaimed artist Sarah Sze. The 5th annual outdoor exhibition is on view every Friday and Saturday at Landcraft Gardens from June 7 through October 25, 2025, and is curated by the internationally celebrated artist Ugo Rondinone. One of the treasures of the North Fork of Long Island, Landcraft Gardens opens for its fifth season on May 2.

Widely recognized for expanding the boundaries between sculpture, painting, video, and installation, Sze uses a complex palette of materials, both analogue and digital, to explore our constantly evolving visual world. Ranging from immersive installations that scale architectures to paintings, sculptures, videos, drawings, and prints, Sze’s work investigates how the never-ending stream of images that saturates contemporary culture shapes our lives. The exhibition at Landcraft Gardens will coincide with Sarah Sze: Sleepers, Denver Art Museum, in Summer 2025 and Exposition Générale, Fondation Cartier, Paris, in October 2025.

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“Sarah Sze is a lyrical artist, savoring her naturalistic and pantheistic insights about time, animals, plants, water, and sky,” said Ugo Rondinone. “Her extraordinary work reads like a fractured set of fables with clear adages that will come to mind next time you find yourself under a tree or next to a creek. Looking at Sarah Sze’s work feels like a necessary glimpse at something larger, which tells us to stay hopeful and not forget how beautiful the world is.”

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At Landcraft Gardens, Sze will show a new site-specific installation, which was made in response to the garden setting. The installation consists of two intersecting planes of printed imagery suspended by an armature of strings in a grove of pines. The meeting of the two planes – their vanishing point – is supported by a central tree. The images themselves are like portals through which the viewer can glimpse moments of existence, from the humble to the sublime, and the local to the universal. Blurring the boundaries between painting and sculpture is at the core of Sze’s multi-disciplinary practice, and for the installation at Landcraft she experiments with translating one-point perspective, a compositional tool used to create the illusion of space in painting, into three dimensions. The sculpture will be approximately 14 feet high and 37 feet long, made with cord, Tyvek, aluminum channel, and stainless-steel clips.

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SARAH SZE

Born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1969, Sarah Sze lives and works in New York. Sze represented the United States at the Venice Biennale in 2013 and was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2003. The artist has exhibited in museums worldwide, and her works are held in the permanent collections of the Tate, UK; M+ Museum, Hong Kong; MUDAM, Luxembourg; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; among others. Sze has created public works for the High Line in New York, the city’s Second Avenue Subway 96^th Street station, the new LaGuardia Airport, and Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, NY. Sze’s work has been featured in the Berlin Biennale (1998), the Carnegie International (1999), the Whitney Biennial (2000), Bienal de São Paulo (2002), the Liverpool Biennial (2008), Biennale de Lyon (2009), the Guangzhou Triennial (2015), and the Venice Biennale (1999, 2013, and 2015). Sze’s recent solo presentations include Sarah Sze, the Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas (2024); Sarah Sze: Timelapse at the Guggenheim Museum, New York (2023); and Sarah Sze: The Waiting Room at Peckham Rye Station in London (2023).

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UGO RONDINONE

Ugo Rondinone was born in 1964 in Brunnen, Switzerland. He studied at the Universität für Angewandte Kunst in Vienna before moving to New York in 1997, where he lives and works to this day, in addition to the North Fork. His work has been the subject of recent solo presentations in Belvedere, Vienna (2021), Tamayo Museum, Mexico City (2022), Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2022), Petit Palais, Paris (2022), Scuola Grande San Giovanni Evangelista di Venezia, Venice (2022), The Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva, (2023), Storm King, New York (2023), The Städel Museum, Frankfurt (2023), and Museum SAN, Wonju (2024). In 2007 he represented Switzerland at the 52nd Venice Biennale. Last year exhibitions were held of his work at The Kunstmuseum Lucerne, Switzerland and the Aspen Art Museum, Colorado.

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LANDCRAFT GARDEN FOUNDATION

Landcraft Gardens are a unique resource and living laboratory exhibiting extensive plant collections, celebrating the diversity of horticulture and design, and providing a place to explore human connection with the natural world. Located in the heart of the North Fork’s wine region on Long Island’s East End, the Landcraft Gardens were established in 1992 by founders Dennis Schrader and Bill Smith when they purchased 17 acres of land surrounding an 1840s-era farmhouse. Situated on a narrow spit of land, nestled between the Long Island Sound, Mattituck Creek and the Peconic Bay, the site itself provides an unusually long, moderate growing season – perfectly suited for the development of the Landcraft Gardens.

The Landcraft Garden Foundation, a registered 501c3, is dedicated to inspiring, educating, and promoting gardening, horticulture, and the preservation of the natural environment. The organization’s mission is to provide a horticulturally diverse garden that offers knowledge of the plant world and acts as a laboratory for experimenting with horticultural techniques, plant diversity, breeding, and design. Ultimately the Foundation’s intention is to provide the experience of peace and stability that gardens bring to people throughout the world.

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Visitor Information

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Landcraft Gardens, located at 4342 Grand Avenue, Mattituck, NY 11952, is open for the 2025 season from May 2 through October 25. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays only. Tickets are available for purchase at the door: $20 general admission, $17 students/seniors, $5 children (age 12 and under), and free for members and children under age two.

For more information, visit landcraftgardenfoundation.org.

Sculpture in the Garden is partially made possible by a grant from NSCA.

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Photo Caption:

Sarah Sze, Sleepers, 2024, Mixed media, paper, string, video projectors, aluminum, Dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist and Victoria Miro Gallery. Photo credit: Andrea Rossetti.

Pine grove, courtesy Landcraft Garden Foundation

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