CONTACT
Available for exhibitions, commissions, and sale inquiries: spencer.sass@gmail.com
BIO
Spencer Sass is a mixed media painter based in Denver, Colorado. He has exhibited in the U.S. and abroad since the early 2000s. Recent exhibitions include Ghost Gallery, Seattle, and Foothills Art Center (both 2026). After completing his BFA at the University of Northern Colorado in 2000, Sass spent four years as a member of The Forgotten Works, an artist collective in Seattle's 619 Western building — the oldest and largest arts studio building on the West Coast — where he exhibited in monthly solo and group shows. He later spent twelve years in the San Francisco Bay Area, participating in solo and group exhibitions at galleries throughout the region, as well as an international exhibition in Girona, Spain. In addition to exhibitions his artwork has also been featured in international editorial magazines.
artist Statement
My paintings emerge through a dialogue between intention and surrender. I begin each work with an acrylic pour on wooden panel, guiding pigment through movement and gravity, then introducing fire to open cells in the paint. These luminous, organic backgrounds become internal landscapes — echoing what I encounter in both meditation and the natural world. From this ground, I build forward in oil, layering gradient fields and details that give form to the chaos beneath. The pour actively informs the composition, guiding me toward imagery drawn from sustained stillness and the felt energy of landscapes encountered in deep observation. Across my collections, I explore the evolution of consciousness, the hidden intelligence of mycelium networks, and the botanical wisdom of Amazonian master plants — subjects that converge in what I think of as landscapes of the mind, where the boundaries between self, nature, and awareness dissolve. I've come to understand my role less as the author of these images and more as a collaborator with the process itself. The work takes form in the liminal space between what I bring to the panel and what the materials and the work itself want to become.