Saratoga
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Title
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Saratoga
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Creator
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Nancy Genn
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Artist ID
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18
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Date of Work
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1977
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Description
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Handmade paper in shades of taupe - lighter color on top layer horizontal, darker color underneath diagonal with dark string running horizontal.
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Category of Media
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Painting/drawing/mixed media on paper
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Media
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mixed media
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Accession Number
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1978.027
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Location
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storage - B1
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Date Acquired
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1978
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Acquisition Method
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Purchase
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Dimensions of Work
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19" x 24"
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Frame Dimensions
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23" x 28.5"
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Frame Type
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Plexiglass box
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Donor ID
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133
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Artist Bio
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Nancy Genn is a multifaceted, interdisciplinary, cross-cultural Californian artist who is a major contributor to the history of post-war American art in the fields of gestural abstraction and abstract expressionism. She is known for works in a variety of media, including paintings, bronze sculpture, prints, and, notably, handmade paper rooted in the Japanese washi paper making tradition. Her work explores geometric abstraction, non-objective form, and calligraphic mark making, and features light, landscape, water, and architecture motifs. She is influenced by her extensive travels, and Asian craft, aesthetics and spiritual traditions.
Genn is recently creating new, large-scale paintings and works on paper in her studio in Berkeley, California. This work was featured in her most recent exhibition, Nancy Genn: Inner Landscapes at Marignana Arte, Venice (April - July, 2021). This major solo show was curated by Francesca Valente and included the publication of a beautifully illustrated catalog.
Genn has a long history of engagement with Italian culture, having been selected as a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome four times between 1989 and 2015, where she was inspired by ancient and contemporary Italian culture and the Mediterranean light. This culminated in the extensive retrospective exhibition Architecture from Within (2018) at Palazzo Ferro Fini, Venice, Italy, which included a comprehensive monograph Architecture from Within (Francesca Valente, Skira Milan, 2018).
Source: https://www.nancygenn.com/
