Nancy Shaver: Three sisters, four beauties and a work-horse 9 Nov – 17 Dec 2011 > past  > artist page

You can see how Nancy Shaver hunts and gathers and displays. Her personality revels in construction and you can feel things being decided and built by a not the usual. With a sense of humor, her sculpture bows to painting, her painting gathers hands with sculpture, and drawing enters by the side door. Handedness is her way to a reality check, confronting us with the imperfect perfection in the physicality of the handmade. In the same breath, there is her corresponding love and admiration for the familiarity of the vernacular and its history. I love the practicality of working from this place, its humanity and idealism is not blind. In this most recent work, the scale and presence of what she once referred to as refrigerators seem now to have become figures, and the material looseness and range is comparatively extreme.

Nancy Shaver was born in Appleton, New York, in 1946 and lives in Jefferson, New York. She received her BFA from Pratt Institute in 1969. Her first one-person exhibition at Feature Inc. was in 1987; this will be her sixth show with the gallery.

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  Nancy Shaver, Incline, decline, outside WalMart, 2009 nsf0904 Nancy Shaver, Energy, 2011 nsf1110 Nancy Shaver, Fanny, 2011 (view 1) nsf1101 Nancy Shaver, Fanny, 2011 (view 2) nsf1101 Nancy Shaver, Fanny, 2011 (view 3) nsf1101 Nancy Shaver, Georgianna, Shirley, and Sharon, 2011 nsf1107 Nancy Shaver, Daisy, 2011 (view 1) nsf1102 Nancy Shaver, Daisy, 2011 (view 2) nsf1102 Nancy Shaver, Daisy, 2011 (view 3) nsf1102 Nancy Shaver, Bishop Road, Hess Road, 2011 nsf1108 Nancy Shaver, Coco, 2011 (view1) nsf1103 Nancy Shaver, Coco, 2011 (view2) nsf1103 Nancy Shaver, River 2011 nsf1109 Jerry Phillips, The History, 2011 jpf1108 Nancy Shaver, Partial Wall, 2002 nsf0210
space space Incline, decline, outside WalMart, 2009; wood, wooden blocks, fabric, metal, house paint, Flashe acrylic paint;
76 x 55 x 7.5”; $ 55,000
Energy, 2011; wooden blocks, fabric, paper, house paint, Flashe acrylic paint;
18 x 18 x 3.5”; $ 15,000
Fanny, 2011 (view 1; scrap metal, found upholstery board, upholstery fabric, canvas, glue, paper, house paint, acrylic paint; 66 x 27 x 20”; $ 55,000 Fanny, 2011 (view 2) Fanny, 2011 (view 3) Georgianna, Shirley, and Sharon, 2011; wooden blocks, fabric,
Flashe acrylic paint, house paint; 10.75 x 10.75 x 3.5”; $ 13,000
Daisy, 2011 (view 1); found metal milk crate, metal scraps, found upholstery board, upholstery fabric, canvas, glue, paper, house paint, acrylic paint; 77 x 19.5 x 13.25”; $ 55,000 Daisy, 2011 (view 2) Daisy, 2011 (view 3) Bishop Road, Hess Road, 2011; wooden blocks, fabric, Flashe acrylic paint, house paint, oil pastel; 14.25 x 14.25 x 3.25”; $ 14,000 Coco, 2011 (view1); wood, metal, cardboard,
canvas, dowels, glue, house paint, acrylic paint;
72.5 x 35.5 x 35”; $ 55,000
space Coco, 2011 (view2) River, 2011; canvas, fabric, paper, house paint, Flashe acrylic paint; 9.75 x 22 x 1”; $ 13,000 anonymous found object (quilt), not for sale/ anonymous found object (toy truck), $ 1,500 Partial Wall, 2002; wooden blocks, armature, fabric, house paint; 7 x 15.5 x 11.75”; $ 13,000
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