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
Chapter 5: River, Installation view
2017

Installation at The Union for Contemporary Art in Omaha, Nebraska


Chapter 5: River


Chapter 5 is rooted in cultural memory. The river is a force of nature, a metaphor for the progression and the dilution of memory and tradition over time. The work mimics water, with ink pigments softening, diluting, and reticulating with each interaction: the canopy of florals and lace becoming less distinct, and more ephemeral. As can happen with cultural memory, a dilution occurs, leaving a hazy, sometimes indistinct trace. In contrast to the looseness of the river and loss of cultural memory, tradition can be mimic and passed down. The pots reference Colombian forms I saw with my mother in my youth. These pots are historically made by children, and I created them with the assistance of my daughter. A lineage of creation and cultural history passed from parent to child over generations.

Copyright © Nancy Friedemann, 2020