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John Sager

 

Member profile details

Membership level
01-Exhibiting Artist
First name
John
Last name
Sager
 

First Image

Image No.1
Caption No.1
All of Us
Description No.1
Collage
 

Second Image

Image No.2
Caption No.2
Tree of Wisdom
Description No.2
Assemblage
 

Third Image

Image No.3
Caption No.3
Tracings of Eternal Light
Description No.3
Assemblage
 

Arts data

Relation to Art
  • Artist
Arts Media
  • Sculpture
  • Other
Arts Proficiency
Professional
Artist Statement
As animals wander in search of food, an artist wanders in search of materials and ideas. These are turned into an artwork that is greater than the sum of its parts. That extra part is grace.

Objects have a unique history: they have had human companions. As collector, I find objects that want to be together, to be companions in a new life. In my role as joiner, I deal with surface and form, sequence and juxtaposition. I try to turn chaos into order by whatever means possible, sometimes by accident.

The art of assemblage is the real joining of separate objects into a cohesive whole. The word “religion” is derived from a word meaning to reconnect. The religious task is to put the split life back together.

A sign for a church on Loop 360 proclaims its website is “Grace360.” Grace is truly all around us.
 

Church data

Denomination
Episcopal
 

Additional information

About
John Sager’s unique assemblages and collages have been exhibited from Dallas to Denver, New York to New Mexico, Berlin to Budapest to Bratislava. His current passion is altered books, but he continues to work in collage and steel. He has received 16 jurors’ awards, including a major award from the McKinney Avenue Contemporary Museum in Dallas, “Best of Show” at the Waco Art Center and two purchase awards from Concordia University at Austin.

Sager often explores spiritual themes. The Dadian Galley at Wesley Theological Seminary, HEB Foundation’s Laity Lodge and Seton Family of Hospitals’ spirituality center have shown his work, which has been featured in the Arte Sagrado nationally juried exhibitions. His sculpture was included in a gallery tour of New Zealand to mark the centennial of Joseph Cornell’s birth.

Since 1980, he has been a preparator for the Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Art from Texas Lutheran University. He is represented by Hooks-Epstein Galleries in Houston.

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