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NANCY GENN b. San Francisco, California; resides in Berkeley
A painter, sculptor and papermaker, Nancy Genn studied art at the College of Letters and Science at the University of California, Berkeley. She is considered to be part of the Berkeley School (1930s-1950) of artists whose work emphasizes formal values. Her geometric abstract works have been featured in many solo exhibitions throughout the past forty years in California, Washington and New York, and overseas in England, Japan and Italy.
Public collections containing Genn's work include the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York; Brooklyn Museum, New York; Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana; Los Angeles County Museum, California; Museum of Modern Art, New York City; National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC; San Francisco Museum of Art, California; Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC and The Oakland Museum, California. Two cast bronze sculptures by Genn are on the campus of Cowell College of the University of California, Santa Cruz. These won an award from the Architecture Institute of America in 1966.
Nancy Genn is the recipient of the Fresno Art Museum's "Distinguished Artist for 2003" award, presented by that institution's Council of 100. Each year the award acknowledges one woman's accomplishments in art. Past recipients of the honor include Ruth Asawa, Betye Saar, Viola Frey, Helen Lundeberg and June Wayne. The award included a solo exhibition of Genn's work at the Fresno Art Museum ("Planes of Light," September 9 - November 9, 2003).
Connections,
1990
Intaglio vitreograph on Arches Cover White, Edition of 50
image size 24 x 19 inches; paper; 30 x 22 inches $400*
In an article for the Fresno Bee ("The Spirit of Light," October 2, 2003) Donald Munro remarked on the depiction of light in Genn's work. He wrote, "This is light as geometry. As shape and form. In Genn's work, it's as if light is subdued and mounted for posterity - not with clinical precision but with the determined emotion of an artist who revels in the spaces around her."
Planes of Light - Roma, 1990
Intaglio vitreograph on rag paper, Edition of 50
image size: 24 x 19 inches; paper size: 30 x 22 inches $450*
The Cincinnati Art Museum has Planes of Light - Roma in its permanent collection.
Ostia Antica, 1990
Intaglio vitreograph on rag paper, Edition of 50
image size: 30 x 24 inches; paper size: 42 x 29 ½ inches $800*
Ostia Antica in in the collection of the Portland (Oregon) Art Museum. It was also included in Genn's exhibition at the Fresno Art Museum, when she was honored as the Distinguished Woman Artist of 2003.
Nancy Genn has traveled throughout Asia Minor and made trips to Italy, Greece and Turkey, as well. Osta Antica is an ancient town about fifteen miles south of Rome. Its ruins include remnants of Roman Houses, public baths, theaters and temples. Also to be seen there are the ruins of a synagogue that flourished in the second to fifth centuries of the common era.
Marmaris I,
2000
Vitreograph on Rives BFK, Edition of 40
image size 22 ¼ x 17 inches, paper size 28 ½ x 21 ½ inches $750*
Marmaris, in Turkey, is today a yachting resort on the shores of the Mediterranean, but the town has roots that reach back three millennia to its first settlement, Phykos. Many cultures have left their mark on the area, including the Egyptian, Syrian, Roman, Byzantine and Ottoman civilizations. The locale contains an ancient amphitheater and Tombs, and a caravansary and aqueduct built in the sixteenth century.
Doublet,
2000
Vitreograph on Rives BFK, Edition of 14
image size 10 x 8 inches (each), paper size 20 x 27 ½ inches $800*
In addition to "Doublet," the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Art in San Francisco holds four other vitreographs by Nancy Genn in its permanent collection. "Doublet" was included in Genn's exhibition at the Fresno Art Museum, when she was honored as the Distinguished Woman Artist of 2003.
Construct I, 2000
Intaglio vitreograph on Arches Buff, Edition of 20
image size: 29 ½ x 24 inches; paper size 35 x 29 ¾ inches $900*
"Construct I" was included in Genn's exhibition at the Fresno Art Museum, when she was honored as the Distinguished Woman Artist of 2003.
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