Jacquelynn Sullivan Gould
(She/Her)
sulli357@msu.edu
(517) 432-3961
B105 Kresge Art Center
600 Auditorium Rd
East Lansing, MI 48824
FacultyArt, Art History, and Design
Teaching Specialist
Sculpture, Foundations
Biography
Jacquelynn Sullivan Gould is a mixed media sculptor and installation artist, whose practice is rooted in her interest in the connections she finds working in clay, wax, metal, printmaking, drawing, and hand sewing. With her work, she challenges the duality of seeing, seeing what is there, and seeing what is missing or has changed. She has exhibited her work at Delta College, University Center, MI, The Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, and The Sculpture Center, Cleveland, OH.
Sullivan Gould earned her MFA from Michigan State University in 2011 and her BA in Studio Art and Art History from the University of Minnesota, Morris in 2008. From the Fall of 2014 until the August of 2024 Sullivan Gould had the pleasure of being the Director of Galleries. As of Fall of 2024, she will step into a fully teaching role as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art, Art History, and Design at Michigan State University working in Sculpture and Studio Art Foundations.
Artist Statement
Through subtle shifts in space, I create environments that ask the viewer to move through layers of images and forms to reveal the inner struggle of the individual. Exploring what happens when our mind begins to fail us. Reaching a point when no longer we can control what we know or who we recognize. I share personal experiences in an attempt to depict a fear that plagues the human condition; illness.
By isolating a moment, my work embraces the struggle of experience. The forms I construct explore the loss of the familiar and the everyday with snapshots of my family’s past; ordinary instances that embody a lifetime. The figures in my work are frozen in time, referencing the strain we endure with the duality of seeing: seeing what is there and seeing what is missing or has changed. The connection shared biologically amongst family members forces us to face the fear illness becoming a pattern rather than a coincidence.
Media Mentions
Ready, Set, Draw
MSU College of Arts & Letters
September 26, 2016
The annual Drawing Marathon, hosted by MSU’s Department of Art, Art History, and Design and the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, is set to put pencil to paper on Wednesday, September 28, from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
More than 50 Years of Graphic Design Expertise on Display
MSU College of Arts & Letters
November 4, 2016
Popcorn bags, board games, scarves, posters and more – the MSU Union Art Gallery’s Women in Design exhibit is not to be missed.
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