A King’s Fork High School senior who attends the Governor’s School for the Arts will show paintings and fashion designs at the Chrysler Museum of Art this Sunday.

The show, at the museum’s glass studio, is Alexander Sausen’s senior art exhibition, which is required of GSA students in their senior year.

“At the beginning of the second semester, we transitioned from senior portfolio preparation to senior exhibitions,” Sausen explained, adding students have to come up with a concept and location for the exhibition, design show cards, and pull together the various other elements.

Sausen said he has taken a variety of classes in GSA’s visual arts department, such as glass and video of glass, sculpture, and acrylic painting.

His fashion designs and paintings to be exhibited Sunday, for about 1-½ hours from 1 p.m. at 745 Duke St., Norfolk, explore how the art and culture of Asia, Western Europe and Africa interact.

Most of the paintings are acrylic, he said, but mixed media is also represented — including sawdust and sand.

Then there are the fashion pieces.

“Some of them are more conventional, whereas others I treat more like sculpture,” Sausen said.

He said he has fallen in love with antique Japanese Satsuma pottery. “I love the patterns that they used.”

It all started, he said, when he began studying art history. The interest in the art of Western Europe kicked in when he attended an exhibition featuring 18th-century Englishman Thomas Gainsborough, and Rembrandt, the 17th-century Dutch master.

Sausen said he has researched Asian culture, and the female Geisha entertainers of traditional Japan have inspired many of the paintings in Sunday’s exhibition.

Sausen said he was able to line up his exhibition at the Chrysler via a connection with glass artist Charlotte Potter, who manages Chrysler’s glass studio.

Various Chrysler glass artists are also participating in the exhibition, Sausen said. “They will be doing performance art,” he added.

Sausen believes his future lies in the museum and art gallery world. “I would like to end up in the gallery business,” he said, adding he’d like to get a start in Washington, New York or Chicago — America’s art epicenters.

“I’ll hopefully end up an artistic director at a museum or gallery.”

But it’s smaller steps first — in the fall, Sausen will be attending Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts on a merit-based scholarship.

This Friday, he’s interviewing with Nordstrom for a job in visual merchandising, which he hopes, if he gets it, will transfer to Richmond.

“I’m also looking into volunteer or internship opportunities at the Virginia Museum for the Fine Arts,” Sausen added.

Sausen’s one-day Chrysler show is free, and parking at the museum will also be free.