October 14, 2025
In this solo exhibition, Sarah Nance brings together several bodies of artwork to center a reciprocal, rather than extractive, relationship with landscape.
Many of the works on display use geologic datasets as scaffolds for the artist’s interaction with media like sheets of mica, knitting patterns, and opera. The translation of this observed geologic information into artistic form allows the data to function speculatively and abstractly, envisioning alternative futures.
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. Nance is currently Assistant Professor of Integrated Practice in the Harpur College of Arts and Sciences at SUNY – Binghamton in New York. She has previously held professorships in Interdisciplinary Art at SMU (Dallas, TX), Fibres & Material Practices at Concordia University (Montréal, QC), and Fiber at Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, VA). Her work has been performed and exhibited widely at venues in China, France, Canada, Iceland, South Korea, Germany, and Italy, as well as across the U.S.
In collaboration with The Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues, Nance will also deliver a public lecture titled Mirages and Archived Landscapes. Nance will discuss her creative practice as a cross-disciplinary investigation of landscape that explores geologic processes and human experience in archived, constructed, and speculative terrains. Nance will speak about a range of related topics, among them her interest in complex visual phenomena that can change our perception of a landscape, such as mirages.
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Sarah Nance’s exhibition and lecture are co-sponsored by the Department of Art & Art History and the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues.
Exhibition opens October 14 and continues through November 12
Goodyear Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Friday 3 - 5 p.m. and Saturday 2 - 5 p.m.
Further information
- Location: Goodyear Gallery (Cedar Street entrance)
- Time: 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
- Cost: Free