Tag Archives: Nancy Spero
Summer Shorts
In spite of an overwhelming profusion of monumental abstraction this gallery season by the expected array of STARtists, a number of shows offer stubborn resistance to predictability. Ironically, two stalwart anti-establishment artists are showing at one of the most prestigious galleries in the market today…[Read More…]
Nancy Spero: Tell it slant
Since the late 1960s and early 1970s when Nancy Spero created the War Series, Artaud Paintings and Codex Artaud, she strove for the validity of the poor image before its appearance in a new millennial discourse of resistance: the image that is hastily executed and viewed from peripheral vision – “slant” – glanced at rather than observed from a fixed and diagnostic point of view. [Read More…]
Shifting Connections 