Openings Connecting: BOOOOOOOOO!!

Saturday, October 31, 2009

BOOOOOOOOO!!

8 comments:

Leslie Avon MillerOctober 31, 2009 at 11:07 AM
Happy Halloween Nancy. I like the minimalism of this piece.
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Caterina GiglioOctober 31, 2009 at 12:28 PM
and Happy Hallowe'en back at ya! xo
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ELKOctober 31, 2009 at 1:41 PM
lovely...i relish the texture!
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Blue Sky DreamingOctober 31, 2009 at 2:44 PM
Happy Halloween to you Nancy...you captured Halloween with the perfect color orange!
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nancy neva gaglianoOctober 31, 2009 at 2:52 PM
this is a page from the book i made for the person i had in an art exchange...
and *LESLIE, thanks..i'm learning when to STOP.
*ELK, the layers of color, RUST, shellac, and tearing really show up nicely in the photo
*BLUE SKY...yes, orange. a rare color choice, but yum sometimes!!
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S. EtoleOctober 31, 2009 at 3:06 PM
Ohhhh ... I really like this.
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Renee HowellNovember 3, 2009 at 3:45 PM
lovely art from the more is more person! Love that you STOPPED! Very interesting piece. Nice creativity my friend!
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ArtPropelledNovember 5, 2009 at 10:34 PM
Such a striking piece Nancy. I love the simplicity.
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FOUR DIRECTIONS/FOUR VISIONS: Two Graces: First showing for me, JUNE 3, 2011

With no directions home, I found Taos in the late 60s. It felt like home immediately. It still does. I know this sentiment is familiar to countless others.

The mountain stopped me in my tracks, and I stayed for several years. Since that time, I circle back annually.

To me, that circle is symbolic of this body of work at Two Graces. This is a time in my life when I've been fortunate enough to experiment with art making. Not surprisingly, I found myself drawn back to the images in the Ektachrome slides that I'd taken in the early 80s of Chaco Canyon, the San Francisco de Asis Church, dusty roads, and the ever changing skies of Northern New Mexico. The spirit of this adobed land lingers in my core and manifests itself within these works.

This past Michigan winter was spent creating enlarged negatives from my thirty year old slides, pulling part of my past into the present via today's tools of scanner and computer. Using traditional silver-gelatin darkroom processes, these resurrected and modified negatives acquired a new life. The majority of these prints are the result of this mediated reincarnation.

The smaller images took me into photographic processes from the mid-1800s. These handmade platinum/palladium prints are created coating vellum, for translucency, with these metal salts and exposing them to ultraviolet light. They are then bathed in the alchemy of the darkroom. The tonal qualities are unique in each print. Finally, 24k gold is layered to the backs of the prints, emanating the warmth, glow, and depth of these beloved places.