Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez

Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez

  • ABOUT
  • CV
  • MESTIZA DOS VECES: A VISUAL NOVEL
  • Prologue
  • Chapter 1
  • Chapter 2
  • Chapter 3: Travelers & Settlers
  • Chapter 4: Cornucopia
  • Chapter 5: River
  • Chapter 6: Casta Paintings
  • Chapter 7: Panopticon, A Collaborative Chapter with Charley Friedman
  • Footnotes
  • COMMISSIONS
  • Duncan Aviation
  • Celebrity Cruises/International Corporate Art
  • Instituto Caro y Cuervo
  • Women's Center for Advancement
  • EXHIBITION & INSTALLATION VIEWS
    • Casta Paintings, Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 2019
    • Palimpsests, University of South Dakota, 2019
    • SUNY Stony Brook, two-person show with Charley Friedman, 2018
    • Monarchs, The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, 2017-2018
    • Chapter 5: River, The Union for Contemporary Art, 2017
    • Travelers and Settlers, Black & White Gallery, 2016
    • Travelers, Project Project Gallery, 2016
    • Realty/Reality, two-person show with Charley Friedman, 2014
    • Bernice Steinbaum Gallery 2010
    • Collette Blanchard Gallery 2009
  • PORTFOLIO ARCHIVE
  • Statement In Spanish
  • Statement In English
  • Word Drawings
  • Lace Drawings
  • Black Drawings
  • PRESS
  • CONTACT
Travelers and Settlers
2016
Mixed Media

Chapter 3: Travelers & Settlers


Chapter 3 speaks to the amalgamation of identities that create mestiza identity. Travelers & Settlers investigates the meeting points of historical and personal lineages that reflect the impact of migration as a force of colonialism and as a force of personal evolution. Combining family heirlooms with materials from my home in Lincoln, Nebraska I have constructed a narrative from the interactions of my indigenous and European ancestors, to my present. The narrative presented by Travels & Settlers leads to Self-Portrait with Papaya which addresses the result of this history. Dark, reflective surfaces illuminated by a light shrouded by a weaving of pearls, offers a place for introspection. These works invite the viewer to examine themselves in the mirrored surface in context of a pearl light working as a metaphorical torch of the past.

Copyright © Nancy Friedemann, 2020