The Handwerker Gallery at Ithaca College is pleased to present: and when you change the landscape, is it with bare hands or with gloves? by visiting artist Sarah Nance. For her exhibition at Handwerker Gallery, Nance will create a forty-foot wall drawing in our Rotunda Space that wraps around the viewer.
We will host an opening reception on Thursday October 9th from 5 – 6:30 p.m. and Nance will offer a talk in the Gallery on her work 10/30, at 5:30 p.m.
Sarah Nance is an interdisciplinary artist based in installation and fiber. She explores entanglements of geologic processes and human experience in archived, constructed, and speculative terrains. Her time spent living in the geologies of Oregon, Iceland, eastern Canada, and the Driftless Area of the Midwest has been significant in the development of her research, much of which continues to be based in these regions. In her current site-responsive work, she creates shrouds for “archived” landscapes—environments, such as former inland seas, that are now observable only through fossil records, artifacts, or recorded data. The shrouds vary from handworked textiles to experimental vocal performances, becoming surface layers that point to complex records of deep time within the geo-anthropic landscape.
