etchings
About
“The joy in my work is to hear what others say about a print. I title each piece to suggest my feeling and am always surprised to hear someone else’s interpretation. I forget that a feeling is just that – a feeling, different for each person.”
Nancy’s etchings are a personal journey through loss and the emotional recovery. She is best known for her sunflower prints used as a metaphor to express these struggles, joys and hopes. The sunflower in its magnificent variety of growth and decay has continued to influence her. It reflects the pain, acceptance and empathy of changing and the continual process of becoming emotionally present.
Primarily using the aquatint technique of copper plate etching, Nancy draws out strong feelings with a limited palette. At the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Nancy honed the lessons of mark making,
the importance of form and shape in a composition, and the use of value and tone for the subtleties and emphasis they created. Etching has suited these skills for her art making and for the message she creates.
Her favorite artists are Louise Bourgeoise, Paul Klee, and Henri Matisse: Louise Bourgeoise for the emotions she evokes from her pieces; Paul Klee for the simplicity of his compositions with his choice of colors; and Henri Matisse for what he says with his shapes.
Awards, Honors, Grants, Residencies
2019 Award: Jurors Choice, Attleboro Art Museum, Members Exhibition, Attleboro, MA
2017 Grant: Cambridge Arts’ 2017 Community Support Art Program, Cambridge, MA
Award: Honorable Mention, Emerging Artist Exhibit, Three Stones Gallery, Concord, MA
2016 Residency, Zea Mays Print Studio. Florence, MA
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Shows
2015 Independent Project for Diploma degree, SMFA
Exhibition, Presentation and Artist Talk
Selected Group Show
2021 Attention to Detail, Cambridge, Art Association, Cambridge, MA
Members Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
2020 Impressions V, Gallery Twist, Lexington, MA
8-Visions, Attleboro Art Museum, Attleboro, MA
Illumination, Gallery Twist, Lexington, MA
2019 Humdrum, Gallery Twist, Lexington, MA
Impressions IV, Gallery Twist, Lexington, MA
Art, Grief and the Land, University Place Gallery, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
2018 Impressions, Gallery Blink, Lexington, MA
About Time, Gallery Blink, Lexington, MA
Boston Printmakers, Francesca Anderson Fine Art, Lexington, MA
Red, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
Members Juried 2: Photography, Drawing, and Mixed Media, Crafts, Graphics, Concord Art,
Concord, MA
2017 Blue, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
18th Annual Frances N. Roddy Competition, Concord Art, Concord, MA
Emerging Artist Show, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
Monsters & Misfits, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
Emerging Artist Show, Three Stones Gallery, Concord, MA
2016 Members Juried 2: Photography, Drawing, Mixed Media, Crafts, Graphics, Concord Art,
Concord, MA
Winter Wonders, ARCworks, Peabody, MA
2010, 2015 Violence Transformed Exhibition, Boston, MA
2009 Arches Sixth Biennial Student Print Exhibition
Group Shows
2019,’20 Members Exhibition, Attleboro Art Museum, Attleboro, MA
2019 Spectrum, University Place, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
Prints of Light, Wedeman Gallery, Lasell University, Newton, MA
2017,’18,’19,’20 Members Show, Old Sculpin Gallery, Edgartown, MA
2016 New Member Exhibition, Old Sculpin Gallery, Edgartown, MA
State of Mind, Lamont Gallery, Exeter, NH
Boston Printmakers
Ideas of Home, Mary Schultz Gallery, Cambridge Art, Association, Cambridge, MA
2015 Now and Zen, Featherstone Center for the Arts, Martha’s Vineyard
SMFA Graduating Student Exhibition, Boston, MA
Professional Affiliations Boston Print Makers, Martha’s Vineyard Artist Association, Cambridge Art Association,
North Cambridge Artist Association, Attleboro Art Museum
Education
Studio Diploma School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (2015)
Post Baccalaureate Certificate School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (2014)
Graphic Design Certificate American Career Institute, Cambridge, MA (2011)
M.Ed. University of Maryland, College Park, MD (1972)
B.A. Ohio Wesleyan U. Delaware, OH (1969)