Nancy Shaver Explained

Birth Place:Appleton, New York
Alma Mater:BFA, Pratt Institute
Known For:Visual art
Awards:2013 The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation
2010 Guggenheim Fellowship

Nancy Shaver (born 1946) is an American visual artist based in Jefferson, New York.

Early life and education

Shaver was born in 1946 in Appleton, New York. She earned a BFA at Pratt Institute in 1969.[1]

In 1994, Shaver opened the antique shop "Henry" in Hudson, New York.

Career

She has taught in Bard College’s MFA program for more than 20 years.[2]

The "Robert Gober: The Heart is Not a Metaphor" exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in 2015 includes some of her early photographs. Her work also appeared in MoMA-PS1’s "Greater New York" in 2015, La Biennale di Venezia "Viva Arte Viva" in 2017, and at the National Gallery, Washington, DC, in "Outliers and the American Vanguard Art" in 2018.

Selected exhibitions

Critical reception

The New York Times wrote, "Nancy Shaver’s exhibitions often overload the senses. They are extravaganzas of stuff, colorful and tactile, mostly society’s castoffs recycled into forms that expose false binaries, like high versus low, form versus function, masculine versus feminine and art versus craft."[3] Alex Abramovich of The New Yorker wrote that she "collects textiles and objects that are as likely to end up in her antique shop in Hudson, New York, as they are in galleries."[4]

According to Sherman Sam of ArtForum, "A typical Shaver form consists of a grid of boxy canvases, usually joined together two deep into a larger block, and covered with different patterned fabrics upon which are also collaged clothes and pieces of drawings."[5] Art in America's Dan Nadel wrote, "Her sprawling installation for the Biennale—a motley amalgamation of her boxy sculptures and contributions from nineteen other artists—is partly autobiographical. The work reflects a long process of developing a handmade aesthetic with a communal ethos..."[6] Susan Hodara of The New York Times wrote of the exhibit, Reconciliation, "For Ms. Shaver, inspiration comes from found objects, particularly fabrics culled from rural thrift shops... The presence of Evans’s photographs and Delaunay’s designs in Reconciliation underscores the exhibition’s spectrum of aesthetic, economic and cultural references."[7]

Awards and honors

Shaver has received multiple awards.[8]

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Nancy Shaver - BFA Fine Arts Department - SVA NYC. BFA Fine Arts Department - SVA NYC. 2018-10-30. en-US.
  2. Web site: People. 2021-02-03. www.bard.edu.
  3. News: Smith. Roberta. Farago. Jason. Schwendener. Martha. Steinhauer. Jillian. 2018-05-23. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week. en-US. The New York Times. 2019-03-08. 0362-4331.
  4. Abramovich. Alex. 2019-02-28. Termite Art and the Modern Museum. en. The New Yorker. 2019-03-08. 0028-792X.
  5. Web site: Nancy Shaver - artforum.com / critics' picks. Sam. Sherman. artforum.com. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20190928200531/https://www.artforum.com/picks/the-aldrich-contemporary-art-museum-55306. 28 September 2019. 2016-03-06.
  6. News: Nadel. Dan. June 1, 2017. In the Studio: Nancy Shaver - Art in America. Art in America. 2018-10-30.
  7. News: Hodara. Susan. 2015-07-11. Art and Its Inspiration, Side by Side, at the Aldrich. en-US. The New York Times. 2019-03-08. 0362-4331.
  8. Web site: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation - Nancy Shaver. 2010. gf.org. March 5, 2016.
  9. Web site: News and Events. 2020-09-22. www.bard.edu.
  10. Web site: Nancy Shaver Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation 2013 Biennial Awards. 2020-09-22. louiscomforttiffanyfoundation.org.
  11. Web site: John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Nancy Shaver. 2020-09-22. en-US.
  12. Web site: Recipients to Date. 2020-09-22. Anonymous Was A Woman. en-US.
  13. Web site: Nancy Shaver Lecture - Events. 2020-09-22. BFA Fine Arts Department - SVA NYC. en-US.

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