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March 30-August 31, 2008 | Solo exhibition
Nancy Crow: Cloth, Culture, Context
International Quilt Study Center
University of Nebraska
Lincoln, Nebraska
Contact: Curator, Carolyn Ducey
Phone: 402-472-6301, Email: cducey1@unl.edu
> www.quiltstudy.org
Nancy will present a slide lecture: March 30 | 4 pm
She will also teach a 5-day workshop: March 31-April 4
Catalogue will be available.
Public grand opening of the new International Quilt Study Center & Museum: March 30 | 1:30-4:30 pm
June 12-August 15, 2008 | Solo exhibition
Nancy Crow: Works from 1988-2008
Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Purnell Center for the Arts
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Contact: Curator, Petra Fallaux
Phone: 412-855-7352, Email: pfallaux@cmu.edu
> www.millergallery.cfa.cmu.edu
> Pittsburgh Post-Gazette review
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Announcement: The Regina Gouger Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University presents “Nancy Crow: Works from 1988-2008” featuring over 50 quilts and making it the largest exhibition ever to be organized of Nancy Crow’s work. The exhibition, curated by gallery director Petra Fallaux, will run from June 12 through August 15, 2008 with an opening reception June 12, from 5-8pm. Nancy Crow will lecture followed by a booksigning on June 11, at 7 pm in McConomy Auditorium in the University Center.
Rather than assembling a ‘greatest hits’ compilation or chronological survey of Nancy’s career, “Nancy Crow: Works from 1988-2008” will present the works with an eye towards uncovering the artist’s process of discovery in these pivotal years. The exhibition includes examples of the ‘Bow Tie,’ ‘Chinese Souls’ and ‘Linear Studies’ series, as well as over thirty works from the ‘Color Blocks’ and ‘Constructions’ series, including new quilts that have not yet been exhibited or published.
Between 1988 and 2008, we witness artist Nancy Crow taking control of the color luminosity of her fabrics, while freeing herself from the straightedged ruler. By exclusively mixing her own dyes and applying them in multiple applications, Crow brings out the utmost intensities and subtleties in color values and hues. Having mastered the art of free cutting, she at the same time achieved a compositional freedom that made new constructions with dazzling lyrical lines and authentic shapes possible.
Nancy Crow’s vocabulary is now easily recognized as a distinctive language of quiltmaking, analogous to the languages developed by master painters, star architects, or the musical phrasings of great improvisational jazz musicians. From subdued hues to exuberant and intense palettes, from fast and furious complexity to spare and intricate tri-color compositions, Crow fine-tunes her final compositions with dead-on precision. The artist’s scrupulous honesty and unwavering dedication to her art make her one of the most authorative as well as genuine voices in contemporary art today.
October 25, 2009-January 10, 2010 | Solo exhibition
Nancy Crow
The Butler Institute of American Art
Youngstown, Ohio
Contact: Director, Louis Zona
Curator: Mary Lou Alexander, Email: maryloualexander@aol.com
> www.butlerart.com
Nancy will present a lecture: October 24, 2009 | 2 pm
Butler Institute of American Art | 524 Wick Ave | Youngstown, OH 44502
Opening reception: October 25, 2009 | 1-3 pm
Butler Institute of American Art Trumbull Branch | 9350 East Market St | Howland, OH 44484
Catalogue will be available.