The American sculptor Sarah Oppenheimer, best-known for her works that disorient the viewer’s
perceptions between architecture and space, will unveil a $1.7m commission for the
Landmarks public art programme at the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) later this year. The sprawling but little-known outdoor art campus includes works by artists like Mark di Suvero, Louise Bourgeois and Sol LeWitt across a 433-acre campus.
The work, titled
C-010106, will be installed on the footbridge between the Gary Thomas Energy Building and the Engineering Education and Research Center, two new buildings of the Cockrell School of Engineering designed by the New York-based firm Ennead Architects with Jacobs. “Sarah’s work, and the process that she undertakes to make her work, seemed to have so much resonance with the space, and so beautifully complement engineering activities and processes,” says Andrée Bober, the