sarah bricke

Email:
sbricke@ucsd.edu

Website:
https://www.sarahbricke.com/

Pronouns:
she/her/hers

Biography:

sarah bricke is a transdisciplinary practitioner and scholar working in photography, film, and new media. Her research interests include: organized labor, feminist political movements, queer activism, and the ways in which these have challenged societal norms and gender roles through art; artworks that arise in the ruins of the built environment; and artists that create long-term and large-scale work in the absence of formal training, recognition, or institutional support. Her practice as a scholar-practitioner is informed by artistic research methodologies as well as formal academic research methods. Currently, she is focused on notions of the archive and archival gaps, fluidity, and silences.

sarah holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is pursuing a PhD in Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the University of California, San Diego. Her dissertation work will examine the life, work, and archives of the photographer Alvin Baltrop (1948–2004). From 1975 to 1986, Baltrop produced his best-known body of work, a photographic documentation of queer life at the social and economic margins along New York City’s Hudson River Piers.