EMILY SANDAGATA | LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS

*CURATORS’ CHOICE AWARD

Emily Sandagata's mixed media work blurs the boundaries between painting, sculpture and textile art, incorporating found objects, natural materials, and earth-based pigments.

Her densely layered paintings and sculptures investigate reoccurring themes of survival, growth, death, transformation, and redemption.

Sandagata grew up in rural Worcester County, Massachusetts and graduated from the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth with a BFA in Textile Design/Fiber Arts. She holds a Masters of Art in Art Education from the Maryland Institute College of Art.

She currently lives and maintains a studio on Western Avenue in Lowell, Massachusetts and teaches art at The Pike School in Andover, MA.

Cradle in the Woods/ Watching the Sky/ Smell of Mud and Trees, 9 x 22 x 9 in. mixed media // $900

Selkie, 18" x 20" x 12", mixed media // $900

Involuntary, 84 x 68 in., mixed media // $3,000

Emily Sandagata, a notable Lowell-based assemblage sculptor and textile artist, transforms remnants and relics of lived experience into hauntingly poetic works that blur the boundaries between memory and material. Using cast-off fabrics, family heirlooms such as christening gowns, silverware and quilts, with organic matter like coffee, dirt, and botanicals, she evokes a visceral sense of time’s passage and the persistence of spirit. Her alchemical process recalls Anselm Kiefer, yet her voice is distinctly her own—intimate, feminine, and deeply rooted in lineage, loss and preservation. Sandagata’s work was central to the core storyline of DELIRIUM, embodying the exhibition’s meditation on unraveling and renewal. Her sculptures and large wall hanging, Involuntary served as emotional anchors, weaving together themes of decay and devotion, while reminding our viewers that beauty often rises from what remains after the storm.

Because of her work in this exhibition, we hope to have facilitated a commission piece for one of the cast members of Dead City at DELIRIUM!