Nance Nadel

Bio

Nance
Nadel received her BFA from Washington University, an MA from Long Island
University, and an MFA from SUNY Albany. She was a professor of art at The Sage
Colleges in Albany, NY for 26 years, and has been a professional artist for
over 30 years. Her works have been exhibited nationally.

Process

Mixed
Media and collage are the creative vehicles I use to express and organize my
ideas, emotions and surroundings.

My multi-layered works often reveal scenes within
architecturally defined spaces: interior and exterior walls, pillars, windows,
doors or tiles, which create a structure or matrix for softer, more amorphous
forms or objects; flowers, vines, circles and spheres.

For my work I use handmade papers, found papers and
images, tissue paper, wallpaper, photo transfers, acrylic paint, watercolor,
graphite, and fragments of my original drawings and paintings.

I cut all of my images out of their given context. The
creative process begins when I manipulate them by reducing or enlarging their
size on the printer, fragmenting, enhancing and embellishing them, or printing
them in black and white. In this way, they are a generation or two removed from
the original, and are ready to be used in an entirely different way.

Intricate patterns, camouflage and detail all serve a
purpose in my work – to create a sense of intimacy, to draw the viewer in to
another world, and to feel the sense of the space, its light and its mood. This
examining and layering, the meditative and physical process of creating my
work, is as important as the final pieces themselves.