Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez

Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez

  • ABOUT
  • CV
  • MESTIZA DOS VECES: A VISUAL NOVEL
  • Collaboration with Farid Matuk
  • Artesanías de Colombia Collaboration
  • Chapter 8: ¡Mamita la Mestiza me Llama!
  • Chapter 7: Panopticon, A Collaborative Chapter with Charley Friedman
  • Chapter 6: Casta Paintings
  • Chapter 5: River
  • Chapter 4: Cornucopia
  • Chapter 3: Travelers & Settlers
  • Chapter 2: Deluge
  • Chapter 1: New Taxonomies
  • Prologue
  • Footnotes
  • EXHIBITION & INSTALLATION VIEWS
    • Pinturas de Casta and the Construction of American Identity, Halsey Institute for Contemporary Art, 2022
    • Studio Visit, Elder Gallery, Wesleyan University, 2022
    • 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
  • Nebraska's Fauna & Flora: Other Histories. University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Translations and Texts by Thomas Gannon
  • Duncan Aviation
  • Instituto Caro y Cuervo
  • Celebrity Cruises/International Corporate Art
  • Women's Center for Advancement
  • PORTFOLIO ARCHIVE
    • Word Drawings
    • Lace Drawings
    • Black Drawings
  • Statement In Spanish
  • Statement In English
  • PRESS
  • CONTACT
First Flakes Drifting
2011
dibond, enamel, phone, pedestal
80" x 85" x 20"

Prologue operates as an introduction to Mestiza Dos Veces and the themes that it explores. In this work, the main focus is on culture, and the ways that it moves, transfers, and merges through mimetic action. The landscape imagery is created out of forms researched from Colonial American lace patterns, and is built up with slow, deliberate marks. This laborious process operates much in the same way that culture is taught and disseminated: through repetition. The parrot, sourced from Colonial, taxonomic studies, functions in a similar way. These birds are masters of mimicry, repeating the sounds and phrases they encounter. A phone, unplugged from the wall, creates a dialogue that speaks to the disconnect that can occur during migration and the merging of cultural identities.

Copyright © Nancy Friedemann, 2020