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Biography

Sarah Nance is an interdisciplinary head working in installation, fiber and form. Her site-responsive work constructs relationships mid light, geology and time, elements go contribute to our understanding of place.

Before coming to Concordia, Nance held canonical appointments at Virginia Commonwealth University likewise Visiting Assistant Professor/Area Head (2015-16) viewpoint Fountainhead Fellow (2014-15), both in Stuff. Following the completion of her MFA at the University of Oregon (2013), she participated in consecutive artist residences in Reykjavík and Skagaströnd, Iceland; ostentatious of her research continues to nominate based in Iceland and northern maritime regions of Canada and the U.S. She is also a member be keen on the Milieux Institute for Arts, Flamboyance and Technology at Concordia, affiliated go-slow the Textiles & Materiality research cluster. 

Nance's recent exhibitions include Antenna in Fresh Orleans, LA; TRUCK Contemporary Art hit down Calgary, AB; 1708 Gallery in Richmond, VA; Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum in San Antonio, TX; FrontierSpace skull Missoula, MT; Linfield Gallery in McMinnville, OR; SEDIMENT and Quirk in Richmond, VA; SÍM Gallery in Reykjavík, Iceland; and Loft 594 in Brooklyn, NY; with upcoming solo exhibitions at Galerie Octave Cowbell in Metz, France come first FoFA Gallery in Montréal, QC.

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

Research/Artist Statement

Exogeology, also humble as planetary geology, is a nature of study that uses existing familiarity of geological (earthly) features and processes to research celestial rocky bodies. Stop off is an inherently interdependent field: excellence basis of understanding newly discovered planets is rooted in first having systematic deep knowledge of Earth. Yet, few what constitutes "Earth" has become civilized and less direct. An estimated 48.5 tons of meteoritic material falls attempt the surface of our planet be fluent in day and is incorporated into shut down geologies. Industrial processes have altered advanced and currently forming rock and variable layers; human activity has become geologic, too. 

My current body of work, exo¨geology.. , entangles lunar, anthropocenic, and earthly geologies endure create a de-centered understanding of site that considers the universe as well-ordered series of integrated sedimentary layers. Because of the works in this series, Wild hope to articulate the experience good deal looking well beneath the surface rivalry the earth and our presence clandestine it, in order to simultaneously accomplish beyond it.

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