Nancy Crow | Exhibitions

2024

BEYOND THE SURFACE: CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS AND PRINTED TEXTILES

• August 31-October 20, 2024
• Panel discussion with curator Caroline Kipp: August 31, 2024 | 3 pm
• Opening reception: August 31, 2024 | 4-6 pm
• Group exhibition curated by Caroline Kipp, former curator of The Textile Museum
Schweinfurth Art Center | Auburn, NY
This exhibit features more than 75 works by a diverse group of eight American artists who challenge conventional expectations of printed textiles within contemporary art.

NANCY CROW | ON MY MIND - RIFFS / CONSTRUCTIONS / DRAWINGS / MONOPRINTS

• September 6-December 15, 2024
• Opening reception: September 5, 2024 | 5-6:30 pm
- Light reception in the museum lobby at 5 pm
- Remarks in Broadbent Gallery at 5:30 pm
• Solo exhibition
Kent State University Museum | Kent, OH
This exhibit features 41 large scale quilts in the Broadbent Gallery. Nancy has included works from 4 distinct series. The exhibition is curated by Sara Hume, Ph.D., professor and museum curator.

Overview of works in this exhibition:
- FACT: Having lived on my farm for over 40 years, a farm that has grown from the original 100 acres to 218 acres, I am a witness to ongoing change through man-made destruction that forces nature to struggle to survive.

My work in this exhibition reflects what I have witnessed as follows:
- CONSTRUCTION QUILTS: These works are about the ongoing destruction of our country’s historical timber frame barns, many of which were constructed in the 1800’s. My family has saved, relocated and restored 4 barns on our farm.

- DRAWINGS: RIFFS (quilts that are machine-pieced but which I consider drawings): The works titled DRAWINGS are about our farm fields which range from fields of winter wheat to native grasses planted for conservation purposes.

- MONOPRINTS: These works are about the drawing I observe in our fields, in our trees, our woods, our fence rows, our water.

- RIFFS: These works are about railroads, roads, housing developments of tract homes … anything eating up our valuable farm land and precious natural areas.

My quilts tell stories but I prefer they speak for themselves with no explanation. I want the viewer to experience whatever they experience.

For me each work must express profound figure/ground tension as part of its story.

COLOR IMPROVISATIONS 3

• March 16-September 22, 2024
• Grand opening: March 15, 2024
Tuch+Technik Textile Museum | Neumunster, Germany
Color Improvisations 3 is a new, large major exhibition of 42 contemporary quilts curated by Nancy Crow.

• New website for Color Improvisations 3

• This special exhibition will travel to other venues:
Meersburg New Palace
Meersburg, Germany
• September 29-December 29, 2024
Contact: Gudrun Fischer, Gudrun.Fischer@ssg.bwl.de

International Quilt Museum
Lincoln, Nebraska
• March 7-August 2, 2025

Plains Art Museum
Fargo, North Dakota
• September 2025-TBD

Decorative Arts Center of Ohio
Lancaster, Ohio
• September 26, 2026-January 3, 2027

2023

NANCY CROW | SEQUENCES, RIFFS & DRAWINGS

• June 10-August 20, 2023
• Artist reception | July 19, 2023 | 6-8 pm
Gallery walk about with Nancy Crow at 7 pm
Schweinfurth Art Center | Auburn, NY

• May 3, 2023 | Online discussion
Nancy Crow and Schweinfurth Program Director, Davana Robedee discussed Nancy's upcoming exhibition SEQUENCES, RIFFS AND DRAWINGS at the Schweinfurth Art Center. Using an interview style format, Nancy and Davana explored the topics that inspired her most recent quilts. Themes included: the language of geometric elements, beauty, and anxiety.
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2020-2021

NANCY CROW | DRAWINGS: MONOPRINTS & RIFFS

• August 4, 2020-March 7, 2021 | International Quilt Museum | Lincoln, NE

A decade after Nancy’s work appeared in the International Quilt Museum's grand opening exhibition, she will share some of the quilts she has made since then in a new exhibition in our West Gallery.