Chapter 1:
In which Strange finds a tool and adopts a new aesthetic along the way.
by Maggie Sasso
@ DOPPLER PDX
625 NW Everett Street #109
Everett Station Lofts
Portland, Oregon 97209
November 4 - 13, 2010 and by appointment
Opening Reception: November 4th 5:30 - 9:00 p.m.
Gallery Hours: Saturdays (November 6th & 13th) 1-4 pm
Doppler PDX presents Maggie Sasso’s installation titled Chapter 1: In which Strange finds a tool and adopts a new aesthetic along the way. In her previous work, Sasso has explored ideas about material culture, museum as institution, artist as anthropologist, and narrative through object making. For her newest work she allows these themes to informed her material choices, while also allowing a new fantastical nature to generate the installation’s narrative based on Sasso’s alter ego, ‘Strange.’
Strange can “see the world with a sense of wonder, just as a child does” and thus begins to collect objects and create draws which illustrate her journey. The result is a new (or rather a very old) aesthetic based on sea charts, repetitive patterns and antique tools.
BIOGRAPHY
Maggie Sasso is currently an Adjunct Lecturer / Visiting Artist for the woodworking department at the Oregon College of Art and Craft. She received her BFA from Murray State University (2006) and her MFA from the University of Wisconsin – Madison (2010). She was the first Student Representative on the Board of Trustees for the Furniture Society in 2004. Sasso recently finished designing and building an installation for the new Madison Children’s Museum (with collaborator Kara Ginther).
For more information visit
www.dopplerpdx.com
or
www.maggiesasso.com
In which Strange finds a tool and adopts a new aesthetic along the way.
by Maggie Sasso
@ DOPPLER PDX
625 NW Everett Street #109
Everett Station Lofts
Portland, Oregon 97209
November 4 - 13, 2010 and by appointment
Opening Reception: November 4th 5:30 - 9:00 p.m.
Gallery Hours: Saturdays (November 6th & 13th) 1-4 pm
Doppler PDX presents Maggie Sasso’s installation titled Chapter 1: In which Strange finds a tool and adopts a new aesthetic along the way. In her previous work, Sasso has explored ideas about material culture, museum as institution, artist as anthropologist, and narrative through object making. For her newest work she allows these themes to informed her material choices, while also allowing a new fantastical nature to generate the installation’s narrative based on Sasso’s alter ego, ‘Strange.’
Strange can “see the world with a sense of wonder, just as a child does” and thus begins to collect objects and create draws which illustrate her journey. The result is a new (or rather a very old) aesthetic based on sea charts, repetitive patterns and antique tools.
BIOGRAPHY
Maggie Sasso is currently an Adjunct Lecturer / Visiting Artist for the woodworking department at the Oregon College of Art and Craft. She received her BFA from Murray State University (2006) and her MFA from the University of Wisconsin – Madison (2010). She was the first Student Representative on the Board of Trustees for the Furniture Society in 2004. Sasso recently finished designing and building an installation for the new Madison Children’s Museum (with collaborator Kara Ginther).
For more information visit
www.dopplerpdx.com
or
www.maggiesasso.com
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