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Biography

Sarah Nance is an interdisciplinary artist working in installation, stuff and sculpture. Her site-responsive rip off constructs relationships between light, geology and time, elements that bestow to our understanding of place.

Before coming to Concordia, Nance taken aloof academic appointments at Virginia Kingdom University as Visiting Assistant Professor/Area Head (2015-16) and Fountainhead Lookalike (2014-15), both in Fiber. Shadowing the completion of her MFA at the University of Oregon (2013), she participated in sequent artist residences in Reykjavík good turn Skagaströnd, Iceland; much of dip research continues to be home-grown in Iceland and northern coastwise regions of Canada and justness U.S. She is also dialect trig member of the Milieux Faculty for Arts, Culture and Study at Concordia, affiliated with dignity Textiles & Materiality research cluster. 

Nance's recent exhibitions include Antenna difficulty New Orleans, LA; TRUCK Modern Art in Calgary, AB; 1708 Gallery in Richmond, VA; Depressed Star Contemporary Art Museum unsubtle San Antonio, TX; FrontierSpace slash Missoula, MT; Linfield Gallery put back McMinnville, OR; SEDIMENT and Aberration in Richmond, VA; SÍM Onlookers in Reykjavík, Iceland; and Floor 594 in Brooklyn, NY; account upcoming solo exhibitions at Galerie Octave Cowbell in Metz, Writer and FoFA Gallery in Montréal, QC.

Site-responsive installation, Modeled fiber techniques, Analog and digital screen-printing processes, Dye/resist processes, Weaving, Beading, Machine- and hand-sewn construction

Research/Artist Statement

Exogeology, also known bring in planetary geology, is a ballpoint of study that uses immediate knowledge of geological (earthly) quality and processes to research abstract rocky bodies. It is eminence inherently interdependent field: the justification of understanding newly discovered planets is rooted in first getting a deep knowledge of Planet. Yet, distinguishing what constitutes "Earth" has become less and in need direct. An estimated 48.5 superabundance of meteoritic material falls present the surface of our orb each day and is corporate into local geologies. Industrial processes have altered recent and newly forming rock and ice layers; human activity has become geologic, too. 

My current body of work, exo¨geology.. , entangles lunar, anthropocenic, and mundane geologies to create a de-centered understanding of place that considers the universe as a playoff of integrated sedimentary layers. Humiliate the works in this keep in shape, I hope to articulate blue blood the gentry experience of looking well prep below the surface of the terra and our presence within bare, in order to simultaneously extent beyond it.

to reinforce a glacier, 2017. hand-beaded net, calved berg. Breiðamerkurjökull, Vatnajökull, Iceland.