American artist
Sarah Moli Newton Applebaum (b. 1975, California) lives and works in San
Francisco, California. Internationally recognized, her work has been exhibited
in La Triennale Di Milano Design Museum in Milan, Nordic House Cultural Center
in Reykjavik, Iceland, the Denver Biennial of the Americas in Colorado and the
San Jose Institute for Contemporary Art in California, among other spaces. She
has been featured in a diversity of books and publications throughout China,
North and South America and Europe. Applebaum's new-psych work has played a key
part in reinvigorating installation and soft sculpture through her use of
textiles in contemporary art.
A collaboration of San Francisco-based band
Seventeen Evergreen with Oakland-based directing maestros Corey Creasey and Ian
Kibbey – aka Terri Timely –
for Polarity Song has resulted in something remarkable and beautiful –
with the crucial input of Ian and Corey’s (SF-based) artist
friend Sarah Applebaum.
Applebaum’s medium of
choice are textiles to make ‘soft
sculptures’ – put to brilliant use in the Timely’s creation of a very woolly and colourful alternate universe within
a drab, cavernous thrift store (probably somewhere in the Bay Area). Stephen
Richards of Lucky Number calls it “the best video we’ve
ever commissioned.”
