Nancy Hagin “Vessels”
Fischbach Gallery
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“I often spend days arranging objects in a still life. At other times, I find items that have arranged themselves into interesting configurations. I’m always on the lookout for these natural and accidental situations. I am a still life painter who works directly from observation. I’m also a puzzle solver who loves crosswords, anagrams, cryptograms, mystery novels, games of all kinds. When I paint, I like figuring out the puzzle of appearances: why things look the way they do. The more complicated the visual situation, the happier I am.” - Nancy Hagin
Vessels, Hagin’s contemplations of found still life utilize light, shadow, color and pattern within the natural and material world. The internal made external, a symbiosis of body and mind through matter. Eminently female, the jugs, cups, and bowls that comprise Hagin’s pictorial world become vital bodily presences. Her still life arrangements afford her process a sense of the same subliminal sensuality as the vessels themselves. Vessels accept, contain, protect, and preserve the birth/death/rebirth cycle of life at both the physical and metaphysical levels.
Born in 1940 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Nancy Hagin received her M.F.A. from Yale University in 1964. Each year, she spends the autumn and winter months in New York City, painting in acrylic. In the summer, she works in a barn near the town of Hudson, New York, painting in watercolor. This is Hagin’s nineteenth solo exhibition at the Fischbach Gallery.
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Schedule
from October 16, 2014 to November 20, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-10-16 from 17:00 to 19:00