Southeast Chapter ConferenceSpeakers

Patricia Lois Nuss

Friday, October 10, 2014 @ 2:00pm, Mendenhall Student Center Great Room 1 and 2

Panel: The Portrait as Performance

Patricia Lois Nuss is a practicing artist and educator specializing in photography. Her artwork has been exhibited nationally, including the Corcoran College of Art and Design, PhotoNOLA at L'Entrepot in New Orleans, the Maryland Institute College of Art, and the Florida State College Museum of Fine Art in Tallahassee, FL. Nuss was born in South Kingston, RI. She received her MFA in Studio Art & the Computer in 2011 and her BFA in Studio Art Photography in 2008, both at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, FL. She is currently an adjunct faculty member at the Southeast Center for Photographic Studies and the University of Central Florida, Daytona Beach, FL. Nuss makes artwork that investigates the comparative territories of human emotion as it relates to the many facets of culture. The absence of a female role model in her life has led Nuss to focus strongly on the feminine and seek to procure an intimacy with the women she photographs. In her research, she dissects the female idols presence and power in various cultures and eras.