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J. Dana Sperry

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J. Dana Sperry

Professor

LocationBliss Hall
  Cliffe College of Creative Arts
  547 Wick Avenue
  Youngstown, OH  44503

 

Education

  • 2001

    MFA, Sculpture

    Indiana University
     

  • 1995

    BFA, Art

    Southern Methodist University
     

  • 1995

    BA, Philosophy

    Southern Methodist University

 

About

Dana Sperry is a interdisciplinary digital media artist whose work spans multiple formats and mediums. His recent work explores states of loneliness and isolation resulting from experiences that convey insignificance within a modern post-industrial society. Each piece considers different aspects of contemporary remoteness. In addition to exploring ideas of loneliness, Sperry is fascinated by the inevitable distortion, fabrication and simplification of value structures and renderings of past realities within a culture.

His has been exhibited/screened widely including New York, Chicago, Miami, Paris, Moscow, Amsterdam, Brazil, and India.

Sperry received a BA in philosophy as well as a BFA in studio art from Southern Methodist University. After studying at the Art Insititute of Chicago, He received an MFA from Indiana University.

 

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