Artist
“Painting isn't an aesthetic operation; it's a form of magic designed as a mediator between this strange hostile world and us, a way of seizing the power by giving form to our terrors as well as our desires.”
~Pablo Picasso
Carmen A. Sasso
Group Shows:
Atlantic Works Gallery
Friends 2010, All Work Guaranteed Stolen 2011, Friends 2012, Doppleganger 2015, Pyromania 2015, Animal Farm 2016, Deadly Sins 2016, Yellow 2017, Art Basil 2018, The Revolution 2018, AWG 15th Anniversary Exhibit 2018.
Adelson Gallery Boston, MA. Ten Artists, 2013
Fuller Art Museum, MA, 1993
Yonkers Museum of Fine Art, NY, 1990
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, RI, 1986
Newburyport Art Association Regional and Floral Exhibits, 2022
Site: Brooklyn Monochrome Explored, 2024
Two Person Exhibits:
Corpus et Spiritus, Atlantic Works Gallery, 2011
Two Views, Atlantic Works Gallery, 2013
Balance Act, Atlantic Works Gallery, 2015
Nexus, Atlantic Works Gallery, 2017
You Know its Coming, 2019
Study in Contrast, 2021
Dots, Future Labs Gallery, 2023
Solo Exhibits:
You’re Welcome, Atlantic Works Gallery, 2009
One Moment On Going, Atlantic Works Gallery, 2013
Fifty in Five, Atlantic Works Gallery, 2021
Connect the Dots, Atlantic Works Gallery, 2022
Publications:
D.S. Mangus. (2013} A Chromatic Mix. Reviewing the Ten Artists group exhibit.
ArtsEditor. Yumi Araki. (2009) Color Me Evolutionary. Visual arts review One moment On Going, Carmen Sasso solo exhibit. The Arts Fuse.
Carmen Sasso. (1987) The Ripple Scenario. Experimental Glass Workshop. New Work.
Related Experience:
Clinical Supervisor for Art Therapist, North Suffolk Mental Health Assoc., EB. MA. 2006-14
Horizons Craft School, Instructor, Williamsburg, MA. 1990-2000
Continuing Education Instructor, Rhode Island School of Design, 1986-1990
Teaching Assistant, Rhode Island School of Design, 1984-86
Education:
M.A. Clinical Mental Health Counseling \ Psychology
Lesley University, Cambridge, MA. 2000
M.F.A. Glass Program
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI. 1986
B.F.A. Glass Program
Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA, 1978