Sandra Clark Burns

Sandra Clark Burns, Sculpture

Sandra Burns first joined the School of Art faculty in 2011 as a lecturer in the film/video/interdisciplinary department. She joined the sculpture program in 2015 and in 2020 was appointed Senior Critic. Formerly the Graduate Coordinator in sculpture, Burns will continue her longtime commitment to the department as its first Assistant Director, leading alongside Director of Graduate Study, Aki Sasamoto.

A 2001 alumna of the School of Art’s painting and printmaking program, Burns was an artist-in-residence at the MacDowell Colony and has been a recipient of the Chenven Foundation Grant, as well as grants from the Connecticut Commission of the Arts and the Vermont Studio Center’s Clowes Fellowship. Burns’ work is rooted in somatic and psychological experiences of the built world and explores how queer bodies navigates such spaces.

“There’s a certain rhythm to bumping into and out of various types of spaces. I interpret this mobility as a form of queer navigation, “Burns explains. “By focusing my practice on the discursive material touchpoints that exist in seemingly oppositional spaces, I work to illuminate how two opposing systems might establish common ground, both temporally and spatially.”

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