Sarah Reagan (b. 1995; Minneapolis, MN) is a sculptor who uses industrial construction materials to evoke a more childlike perspective on the world. Her work embraces masculinity and manual labor as a large-scale “plaything” within a world that often punishes gender deviance. Using a combination of traditional craft methodologies with modern technology, Reagan challenges the hierarchy of materials and methods. This fusion allows for a dialogue between the past and the present, the rigid and the flexible, the serious and the silly, emphasizing our ability to establish our own rules in defiance of the status quo.
After serving in the Peace Corps, Reagan earned her MFA in Craft from Virginia Commonwealth University. She has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Virginia Commonwealth University, Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts, and Penland School of Craft and held residencies at Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Flower Shop Art Studio, and The Wassaic Project. Reagan has exhibited both domestically and internationally, including at Corrente de Ar (Lisbon, Portugal), Messler Gallery (Rockport, ME), Appalachian Center for Craft (Cookeville, TN), and the Brownsville Museum of Fine Art (Brownsville, TX.)
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