Nancy Spero

Nancy Spero
Spero in her New York Studio in 1973
Born(1926-08-24)August 24, 1926
Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
DiedOctober 18, 2009(2009-10-18) (aged 83)
New York City, New York, U.S.
EducationSchool of the Art Institute of Chicago
Known forPainting, printmaking, collage, feminist art, feminist art movement in the United States
SpouseLeon Golub

Nancy Spero (August 24, 1926 – October 18, 2009) was an American visual artist known for her political and feminist paintings and hand pulled prints .[1]

Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Spero lived for much of her life in New York City. She married and collaborated with artist Leon Golub.[2] As both artist and activist, Nancy Spero had a career that spanned fifty years. She is known for her continuous engagement with contemporary political, social, and cultural concerns. Spero chronicled wars and apocalyptic violence as well as articulating visions of ecstatic rebirth and the celebratory cycles of life. Her complex network of collective and individual voices was a catalyst for the creation of her figurative lexicon representing women from prehistory to the present in such epic-scale paintings and collage on paper as Torture of Women (1976), Notes in Time on Women (1979) and The First Language (1981). In 2010, Notes in Time was posthumously reanimated as a digital scroll in the online magazine Triple Canopy.[3] Spero has had a number of retrospective exhibitions at major museums.[4]

  1. ^ "Life and Work of Nancy Spero, Feminist Printmaker". ThoughtCo. Retrieved 2024-05-10.
  2. ^ Ivry, Benjamin (2010-04-16). "Nancy Spero and Leon Golub: A Politically Relevant Artistic Couple". The Jewish Daily Forward. Retrieved 2011-07-07.
  3. ^ "Notes in Time"
  4. ^ Cepeda, Gaby (December 2018). "Nancy Spero". Art in America.