Artist. Curator.
Arts Writer & Arts Administrator.
Nancy Sausser Bio
Nancy Sausser is a sculptor, curator and writer living in the Washington D.C. area. Her work has been shown nationally, primarily in Seattle, DC, Maryland and Northern Virginia. Nancy’s writing has been featured in publications such as the Washington Post and FiberArts Magazine, as well as in many exhibition catalogs. She holds a B.A. in Studio Art from Kenyon College and an MFA in Sculpture form the University of Washington in Seattle.
Additionally, Nancy Sausser has had a long career as an arts administrator, and is currently the Curator and Exhibitions Director at McLean Project for the Arts. She has been curating exhibitions for over twenty-five years, previously at Montpelier Cultural Arts Center and Harmony Hall Regional Center, both in Maryland. In addition, she has worked to bring more art into the public schools as the Arts in Education Director at the Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County.
She has served on numerous grants panels in both Maryland and Virginia, has been a guest juror for exhibitions around the greater DC area and facilitated numerous artist talks, panels and events.
Artist Statement
I am interested in exploring the conversation that exists between interior and exterior worlds. I am drawn to containers and vessels, as they encapsulate, protect, preserve and metaphorically point to the coexistence of the universal and the individual. Working primarily through abstraction, I draw on the innate understanding of the language of form that we all share, referencing landscape, early life forms, basic biology, the natural world, and our physical and philosophical selves.
The shifts in consciousness we experience as we go about our lives, the constant movement of our attention between thought and action, between what’s going on inside of us and what is around us, between how we interact with ourselves and with each other, fascinates me. Our individual sense of reality, built from a blend of external and internal attentiveness, reflects a personal, ever- evolving balance. My work is rooted in a visual exploration of this part of human experience, as a reflection on the nature of our everyday lives and ways of being in this world.
Nancy Sausser
Contact
ndsausser@gmail.com