Yerba Buena Center Bridge
Double Horizon is a 5,500-pound boulder split open like a geode. The split sculpture is embedded with tiles to create pixelated color images of the sky at different times of the day.
Sze was born in Boston in 1969 and lives in New York. She received a BA in Architecture and Painting from Yale University in 1991 and an MFA from New York’s School of Visual Arts in 1997. Sze builds her installations and intricate sculptures from the minutiae of everyday life.
Sze was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 2003 and a Radcliffe Fellowship in 2005. In 2013, she represented the United States at the Venice Biennale. Her work is exhibited in museums worldwide and held in the permanent collections of prominent institutions such as The Museum of Modern Art, New York, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and The Tate Modern. Sze has created many public works, including pieces for the Seattle Opera House, The Metropolitan Transportation Authority in New York, and The High Line in New York.
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