WOMEN WHO TRAVEL - NANCY CUSACK – PROFILE
Nancy Cusack works primarily with drawing-based imagery, widely interpreted. Her work incorporates printmaking and photography with contemporary and traditional mixed media practice. The daily intervention of mythologies—cultural, religious, personal—is often a starting point in her work. References to deep space and the aerial atmosphere are evident in her work. She became a pilot in the late 1980’s as a result of this interest.
Recent juried/invitational exhibitions include:
The National Gallery of Costa Rica, Feb. 2008, (forthcoming);
ANA 35, Holter Museum, Helena MT, June – August 2007.
Cortesia Amarilla, San Jose, C.R., drawing installation, May 2007
“Art at Avanti,” Avanti Salon Boston, solo show, Oct.–Nov. 2006
The Attleboro Museum, “Eight Visions”, August 2006–Sept . 2006.
Selected juried or invitational exhibitions include:
Attleboro Museum, Annual Juried Show, merit awards 2004.2005; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Artist Books and Aids; Los Gatos Museum, CA, “Patriot Games”; Fuller Museum, Brockton, Women Artists Month; Bakalaar Gallery, Mass Art, “Selections”; Glastonbury Abbey, Hingham, MA, installation, El Dia de Los Muertos altar; Brant Gallery, Mass Art, invited Faculty Drawing; Brant Gallery, Mass Art, installation and images “Dia de Lost Muertos”
A Professor at The Massachusetts College of Art, Studio Foundations Department and Drawing Coordinator, she has taught studio and conceptual courses for many years.
After earning a bachelor degree from Boston College, she attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Rhode Island School of Design, Providence; Middeloo Institute, The Netherlands and received a masters’ degree in Expressive Therapies from the Institute for Art and Human Development at Lesley (College) University.
Awards and grants have allowed for studio work related projects abroad. Most recent is a 2 month residency at the David and Julia White Foundation in Costa Rica, April and May 2007. She has worked extensively across Mexico and continues research begun in 1993 with the cochineal indigenous color laboratory, Tlapanochestli, in the state of Oaxaca. Since 1992 she has participated in programs at the Instituto de Cultura de Oaxaca.
Professional projects have continued as wel in Cuba, Ireland, Northern Ireland U.K., Wales, France, The Netherlands.
She has been invited twice to lecture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York as well as at colleges and conferences here and abroad Including Ontario College of Art and Design; Ohio State University; Emmerson College: Simmons College; Stonehill College, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, The College Art Association ; National Art Educational Assoc. (N.A.E.A.). She has curated, organized and/or written for exhibitions in the U.S., Mexico and The Netherlands.
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