Artist statement

OBSERVATION DISTILLED.

I work from an intersection of drawing and printmaking.
Everything - interior and external - is fodder.
Like solving a puzzle, filtering concept, aesthetic, craft and intuition is both seductive and absorbing.

About Nancy Cusack

ABOUT

Nancy earned her A.B. in Sociology from Boston College before pursuing art and design studies at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Rhode Island School of Design (undergraduate and graduate); and the Institute for Art and Human Development at Lesley University in Cambridge, MA, and Creative Therapies at Middelloo Institute in Amersfoort, Netherlands. She earned professional registration (A.T.R.) with the American Art Therapy Association, and Certificate in Interior Design, Commonwealth of Massachusetts through Massasoit College, as she created standards for art in specialized medical interiors. In addition to her studio practice, Nancy has curated, juried, and organized numerous exhibitions and lectured extensively.

Now Professor Emerita, The Massachusetts College of Art and Design, continued teaching until the pandemic. She founded and led the Studio Foundation Department and later the the studio drawing program Nancy deeply enjoyed teaching across undergraduate and graduate programs and in Mexico. There she launched an art and design program, co-designing studio workshops in Oaxaca and Puebla.  Her work is in private and institutional collections and exhibited broadly. Visitors are warmly welcome to visit her studio in downtown Sarasota

EXHIBITIONS & COLLECTIONS

SELECTED JURIED / INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS

Arts Thrive, Albuquerque Museum of Art, March 2025; Paper Boats Collab. Project, Brickbottom Gallery, Somerville, MA, March 2025; Art Center Sarasota Annual, January/February 2025; Flotilla, Paper Boats and Prints Collaboration, The Loft, Havana Cuba, Oct. 2023/Jan. 2024; National Small Works 2023,” Washington Printmakers Gallery, DC , June 30 - July 30, 2023; Metro Montage XXIII, Marietta Cobb Museum of Art, Marietta, GA, June 8 - Sept. 5, 2023
“Consciousness of Abstraction,” ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL, June 23 - July 15, 2022
“100 Square Inches of Art,” 3 Square Art Gallery, Fort Collins, CO, Nov 5 - Dec 17, 2021. Award.
“Absolutely Abstract,” MVA Gallery, Bethlehem PA, Oct. 2021
“Coastal,” Solace Studio & Gallery, Surf City NJ and Contour 19 Gallery, May 15 - July 7 2019
Artsy.net. May 15 - July 7, 2019
7th Annual Encaustic National, Morpho Gallery, Chicago, August 24 - September 22, 2018.
Cross Creek Rising:consciousness of sea and water, Thomas Galleries, Gainesville FL,Sept. 2017 -Jan. 2018.
"Directions," Brant Gallery, MassArt, Sept – Oct 2017
“Selections 2016,” Bakalar and Paine Gallery, MassArt, February - March 2016
Invitational Exhibition and Auction, Attleboro Art Museum, Attleboro, MA, Nov. 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015.
Art at Native, One person exhibition, Native, Scituate Harbor MA, May, 2012
Invitational Exhibition and Auction, Attleboro Art Museum, Attleboro, MA Nov. 2010, 2011
“One x One,” Gallery Kayafas, Boston, 4 person exhibition, Greg Mencoff, curator, spring 2010
“Celebrating Diversity,” R.I. Council on the Arts, New England invitational, Attleboro Art Museum, Feb., 2010
“Women Who Travel II,” 6 person exhibition, Thayer Gallery, Thayer Academy, Braintree, MA, Sept. 2009
“Lineas Paralelas/Parallel Lines,” one-person exhibition,  National Gallery of Costa Rica, Feb., 2008
“Selections 2008,” Bakalar and Paine Gallery, MassArt, February - March 2008
Drawing Installation, Corteza Amarilla, San Jose, Costa Rica, 2007 - 2008
“Ana 35,” Holter Museum of Art, Helena Montana, June-August 2007
"Women Who Travel,” 6-person exhibition, South Shore Art Center, Cohasset, MA, Sept – Oct., 2007
“New Work,” Art at Avanti, One person exhibition, Avanti Salon, Boston, Oct., 2006
“8 Visions,” Attleboro Art Museum, August 2006

Prior to 2006 other exhibits included Los Gatos Museum, Los Gatos, CA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Fuller Museum, Brockton, MA; Massachusetts State House, Boston; Symphony Hall, Boston, MA; Brant Gallery, MassArt, Boston MA; Monhegan Gallery, Boston; Bergkerk, Amersfoort, Netherlands

Her work is also included in public/institutional collections including theTaller Experimantal de Grafica, Havana, Cuba ; National Gallery of Costa Rica, San Jose  Glastonbury Abbey, Hingham, MA ; New England Med. Center. Boston MA ; White Foundation, San Jose, Costa Rica; Andrus Collection, Boston, MA ; Massachusetts College of Art and Design; Horizon Financial, Boston; Cortesa Amarilla, San Jose, Costa Rica   

SPEAKER/VISITING ARTIST

Museum of Modern Art, NY; Osher LifeLong Learning, Ringling College, Sarasota;
Glastonbury Abbey Institute; Monotype Guild of New England, keynote speaker;
Ontario College of Art and Design; Ohio State University:Simmons College, Boston 
Nova Scotia University of Art and Design, Halifax; Emmanuel College, Boston;
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Stonehill College, North Easton, MA
Wheelock College, Boston; University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Presentations and lectures at national professional conferences include:

College Art Association CAA
National Art Education Association NAEA
Foundations for Art Theory and Education FATE