Featured Artist:

NANCY MINTZ

Woman wearing glasses painting large paper sculptures indoors with hanging paper artworks in the background.

Sculptor and printmaker Nancy Mintz considers herself a “materials artist,” taking inspiration from the innate potential of the diverse media that she has mastered throughout her career, and their unique ability to signify meaning. Her current body of work employs brass and paper to examine the diversity and fragility of natural biological communities, and the complex processes of growth and succession. Mintz is currently working on a series of large, site-responsive installations exploring the interaction between the natural and the built worlds.

Nancy Mintz received her BFA from California College of Art, Oakland and her MFA from Mills College in 1993. Her work is featured in prominent private and corporate collections, and has been exhibited at noted venues such the Bolinas Museum, California Craft Museum, Catharine Clark Gallery, Kala Art Institute, Riverside Museum of Art, and Southern Exposure, among many others.

Featured

Conversation No. 1

$200.00

In 1999 sculptor Nancy Mintz had a show (Introductions , Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco) featuring an array of steel-bound stones in various oppositional or conversational poses. This is a very intimate take on the same concept, using brass wire, one of the artist’s current mediums. We are not going to say what the granite cobble and the quartz pebble represent; that is up to the viewer, based on their intuition, and life experience.

Granite, quartz, and brass 3” x 4”

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Composite

$400.00

The art of decorating wood and other materials by burning is an ancient one. As a folk art, it was known as pokerwork. The development of specialized tools in the late 19th century greatly popularized the craft, which came to be known as pyrography, or pyrogravure. In this century, the advent of computer-controlled laser cutters has led to a renewed interest in wood-burning. This work is based on Composite, a sculpture by artist Nancy Mintz (the original sculpture is made of fine brass wire and gampi paper). Mintz often creatures her sculptures first, then draws them afterward, reversing the usual creative process. Limited edition of twenty.

12.5” x 20”

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