Save the date! Emily Fussner EPHEMERAL ECHOES
Sunday, June 7, 4-6 PM
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This project is supported by a grant from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.
Thank you, Nancy Sausser, for showing your monumental installation, BUILDING BLOCKS FOR A TIME MACHINE, at Freight Gallery. And thank you to everyone who came to see it!
Thank you also to the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities for your support, and to Off The Beaten Track for your patience and support.
@nancysausser@j_lillis@thedcarts@offthebeatentrackartists@offthebeatentrackwarehouse
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Come see Nancy Sausser’s monumental installation in the elevator: BUILDING BLOCKS FOR A TIME MACHINE
This Sunday, April 19, 4-6 PM
2414 Douglas St. NE WDC
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2019 Interview by @pietroruffoartist with @nancysausser in a @iaahillyer blog:
PR: As someone who wears multiple hats in the art world (curator, artist, writer) how do you find those disciplines overlap with one another and how do your other experiences inform the art you create?
NS: Curating, writing and art-making are wonderfully and naturally symbiotic. Putting exhibitions together means that I am always looking at art, always thinking about art, and always talking to artists about their process. It’s very stimulating, both intellectually and visually. Curating is a very creative process itself, and since I work in the gallery I also get to spend a lot of time with an ever-changing array of art. So I have an opportunity to see deeply, which naturally feeds and sparks my own creative impulses. Writing about art necessitates very careful and deep thinking about the work I am writing about, which encourages me to try to apply the same standard of thoughtfulness to my own art. By being an artist, and specifically a sculptor, also informs my curatorial style and interests as well. Since I’m personally familiar with the process of making art, I tend to bring this to my understanding of the work I am showing and to the choices I make about which works I put together and how they are displayed. It’s really a wonderful combination of activities, each informing the other in ever-changing and sometimes unexpected ways.
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Scroll to see 2 images by Pietro Ruffo
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Funding provided in part by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities @thedcarts
Nancy Sausser at Freight Gallery
BUILDING BLOCKS FOR A TIME MACHINE
Sunday, April 19, 4-6 PM only
2414 Douglas Street NE WDC
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In his review in East City Art, Eric Hope wrote about Sausser’s show at @iaahillyer :
“With their layers of color and shape, Sausser’s sculptural installations invoke a certain visual rhythm intended to lull the viewer and gently probe the subconscious mind. The diminutive sculptural forms at the core of the works suggest powerful archetypes that conjoin the natural and manmade worlds, including fecundity, decay, and ancient hieroglyphics.” @eastcityart
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Scroll to see two views of: “In a Circle of Green,” ceramic
@nancysausser
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Freight Gallery is supported by a grant from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities @thedcarts
Come see Nancy Sausser’s monumental installation in the elevator BUILDING BLOCKS FIR A TIME MACHINE
on Sunday, April 19, 4-6 PM, for one day only,
at Freight Gallery 2414 Douglas Street NE WDC
Images:
1. “Each One to the Other,” ceramic 60 x 60 x 4 inches, 2015 (?)
2. “Geometric Variations,” ceramic, 50 x 50 x 5 inches, 2015 (?)
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Funding provided in part by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities @thedcarts
Nancy Sausser at Freight Gallery
BUILDING BLOCKS FOR A TIME MACHINE
Sunday, April 19, 4-6 PM
2414 Douglas St. NE WDC
Image: “Moving Forward/Staying Put,” ceramic,
21 x 21 x 5 inches, 2015 (?)
Thanks for the support of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities @thedcarts@nancysausser
Nancy Sausser
BUILDING BLOCKS FOR A TIME MACHINE
Sunday, April 19, 4-6 PM
2414 Douglas St. NE WDC
@nancysausser
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This project is supported by a grant from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. @thedcarts
Nancy Sausser at Freight Gallery
BUILDING BLOCKS FOR A TIME MACHINE
Sunday, April 19, 4-6 PM
2414 Douglas St. NE WDC
Image: “Point of Reference,” ceramics, wood
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This project is supported by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities @thedcarts
Come see Nancy Sausser’s installation
BUILDING BLOCKS FOR A TIME MACHINE in the elevator on Sunday, April 19, from 4-6 pm.
2414 Douglas St. NE WDC
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Image:
“Quotidian Shift,” installation view, from her 2019 show at @iaahillyer
Photo for East City Art by Eric Hope
Eric Hope described Sausser’s work in his review of her show:
“Nancy Sausser’s sculptures create metaphorical connections to the earth, with elemental shapes that reference the evolutionary processes that influence the world around us. Her layered works begin with primordial forms such as seedpods and fossils. These individual shapes are massed in small groupings, enveloped within vessels and presented to the viewer as though they were precious offerings.”
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Nancy Sausser is an artist, curator and arts writer based in the Washington DC area. Sausser is the Curator and Artistic Director at McLean Project for the Arts,l and has been curating exhibitions for over twenty-five years.
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Funding provided in part by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. @thedcarts
Nancy Sausser will show her installation BUILDING BLOCKS FOR A TIME MACHINE at Freight Gallery on Sunday, April 19, 4-6 pm.
2414 Douglas St. NE WDC
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@nancysausser is an artist, curator, and writer living and working in the Washington D.C. area. Sausser is the Curator and Artistic Director at McLean Project for the Arts in McLean, Virginia.
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Image: Threshold (detail), 2019
Ceramic, wood and metal table
From her exhibition “Quotidian Shift” at @iaahillyer in 2019
“With their layers of color and shape, Sausser’s sculptural installations invoke a certain visual rhythm intended to lull the viewer and gently probe the subconscious mind. The diminutive sculptural forms at the core of the works suggest powerful archetypes that conjoin the natural and manmade worlds, including fecundity, decay, and ancient hieroglyphics.”
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Photo and excerpt from his essay for East City Art by Eric Hope
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Freight Gallery is supported in part by a grant from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. @thedcarts
Nancy Sausser will show her installation BUILDING BLOCKS FOR A TIME MACHINE at Freight Gallery on Sunday, April 19, from 4-6 pm.
@nancysausser is an artist, curator, and writer living and working in the Washington D.C. area.
She has been putting together exhibitions of contemporary art for over twenty-five years and is currently Curator and Artistic Director at McLean Project for the Arts in McLean, Virginia. She’s also a thoughtful and interesting artist.
Image: low fired clay relief wall sculpture
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Freight Gallery is supported by a grant from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. @thedcarts
