Spero, Nancy

Nancy Spero: A Continuous Present

As early as the 1960s, Nancy Spero's work was breaking ranks with the establishment. Her unique pictorial vocabulary and insistent political engagement was a far cry--and a loud cry--from the styles of abstraction that dominated the American art world at that time. She articulated and has continued to drive at themes of burning interest to her: protest against the Vietnam War, the alienation of society and violence against women, for example against Jewish woman under National Socialism and in the historical contexts of witch hunts. A Continuous Present pairs her War Series (1966-70), a cycle of anti-Vietnam War gouaches, with an overview of her work from the last decade. Between 1992 and 2001, Spero created infinite-seeming works on long horizontal and vertical bands of paper--a format borrowed from Egyptian papyrus rolls, Chinese scroll painting and antique friezes--populating them with female figures taken from mythology, various epochs and diverse cultures, giving them feminist momentum via highly charged or parodistic confrontations.

Nancy Spero (Contemporary Artists)

Nancy Spero

Hans Ulrich Obrist & Nancy Spero: The Conversation Series

For more than half a century, the influential American artist and activist Nancy Spero has been known for her relentless honesty and her unshakable commitment to political, social and cultural causes--from women's issues to war and other power conflicts. In this volume, she shares strong thoughts and light moments with series editor Hans Ulrist Obrist.

Nancy Spero: The War Series 1966-1970

Galvanized by the political events of the Vietnam War, Nancy Spero dedicated herself for five years to creating a group of gouache paintings on paper, entitled The War Series. In these works, Spero not only expressed her rage at the violence and oppression of the war, but also introduced many of the images and themes that would continue to find their place in her work, and anticipated the post-modern aesthetic of fracture, dissonance, and collage. This volume is the first to analyze The War Series in depth, and its publication could not, unfortunately, be more timely.

Otherworlds: The Art of Nancy Spero and Kiki Smith

Otherworlds brings together the work of two American artists from different generations_Nancy Spero and Kiki Smith. The book explores thematic connections in their work_the female body, myth and fantasy, the "decorative_" and situates them in the context of post-War American art and social movements, and feminist and cultural theory.

Both artists reclaim the female body as an expressive vehicle of emancipation and desire, and both employ fantasy and decoration to subversive ends. Spero_s work explores the potential recording of space and architecture through a visual poetics of word and image. Kiki Smith treats the body in/as process, creating iconic female figures that threaten to revert to a fluid or skeletal state.

Nancy Spero & Leon Golub: War And Memory

Artwork by Leon Golub, Nancy Spero. Contributions by Katy Kline. Text by Helaine Posner.

Gone beyond gone: September 18-October 23, 1993

NANCY SPERO

Impossible evidence: Contemporary artists view the Holocaust : Melissa Gould, Ellen Rothenberg, Nancy Spero, Art Spiegelman : Freedman Gallery, Albright ... Pennsylvania, November 4-December 18, 1994