
Too Much Sea for Amateurs: Marooned
Mixed Media / 2016Investigates longing, loneliness, dependability, and the certainty of death: universal realities reflected in maritime culture.

- About
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Maggie Sasso served on the Board of Trustees of the Furniture Society from 2014 – 2019 and as the Student Representative from 2004-05.
Sasso is a Milwaukee based artist producing conceptual bodies of work that express macro-cosmic ideas through microcosmic detail and examine the role of material culture in relationship to our collective past. Her installations are tactile and penetrable, employing Great Lakes maritime culture as a catalyst to plunge us into narratives of emotional and uncanny vastness. Using fiber art and textiles techniques to stand in for traditionally hard-bodied forms, and presenting objects as theatrical props and material relics, Sasso considers the balance between difficult tragedy and humorous optimism and regards ordinary stories from Midwestern characters as reverent legends.
Sasso has exhibited nationally, with solo exhibitions in Madison, WI, Portland, OR, Lexington, KY and Milwaukee, WI, and group exhibitions across the US and Canada, most notably at the John Michael Kohler Art Center, where she was a Exhibiting Artist in Residence, and the Haggerty Museum of Art. In 2015 she was the recipient of a Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowship for Individual Artists. Sasso is a full time artist, her studio is located @ VarWest.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maggiesasso/
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Portfolio


Too Much Sea for Amateurs: Marooned at Sculpture Milwaukee
Mixed Media / 2020-2021Piece on display at the internationally renowned outdoor sculpture exhibition Sculpture Milwaukee.


Overboard (Installation View)
Pool float, cotton, rope, mahogany / 2014In 2012 Sasso’s partner Ben, worked for a boat engine company. His work required him to drive boats in perilous situations. Researching maritime safety devices became a subconscious way to rectify the risk.


Too Much Sea for Amateurs: Marooned
Mixed Media / 2016Investigates longing, loneliness, dependability, and the certainty of death: universal realities reflected in maritime culture.


Four In A Boat and the Tide Rolls High
Mixed Media / 2016Applying symbols and codes of maritime culture, this installation chronicles the uncanny and jarring experience that Sasso had after discovering the body of her jovial and intriguing neighbor, Fred, who committed suicide outside of his home.


The Front
Mixed Media / 2019This work invents and investigates a parallel between the Odd Fellows and the Jane Collective, a an underground network of women providing illegal abortions from 1969 – 1971 in Chicago, IL.
WIP Studio Wall
Mixed Media / 2021Abstract weaving based on the lexicon of the surveyors rod


Staysail: Ashore
Photograph / 2019Examining the role of fabric at sea both practically and metaphorically, Staysail presents evidence of a shipwreck.


Mobile Museum of Material Culture
Mixed Media / 2010A mobile museum of things you want to see.


Sasso03 Walrus Club JMKAC Installation View Tapestry
Cotton / 2019The JMKAC, in collaboration with Polly Morris, invited eight former Nohl Fellowship recipients to respond to the life and work of Mary Nohl. The curators wished to highlight her civic engagement, debunking the common myth that she was a “witch lady”.


Staysail (Installation View)
Handwoven cotton and found objects / 2019Examining the role of fabric at sea both practically and metaphorically, Staysail presents evidence of a shipwreck.


Too Much Sea for Amateurs: Capsize/Baptize
Mixed Media / 2016A sculptural boat that hangs limp. The viewer can opt to right the by pulling on the rope, but it only stays afloat as long as the viewer is willing to stay.


The Place
Mixed Media / 2019This work invents and investigates a parallel between the Odd Fellows and the Jane Collective, a an underground network of women providing illegal abortions from 1969 – 1971 in Chicago, IL.