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Real Art Ways
Presents an Opening of Work by
Nancy Drew
More Today Than Yesterday
AUGUST 18 – SEPTEMBER 12, 2005
Hartford, CT: August 15, 2005-On Thursday, August
18 a solo exhibition by painter Nancy Drew entitled More Today
Than Yesterday will open at
Real Art Ways. The exhibit will run from August 18 – September
12, 2005.
Nancy Drew
Nancy Drew pushes past the territories of appropriation and reverence,
and transforms the referenced works into scintillating, somewhat rowdy
paintings that are very much her own-- sparkling, sometimes fuzzy-soft,
renditions of the modern masters, such as Jackson Pollock and Jasper
Johns, among others.
While commenting on the iconic significance and
magnetic power of the past by reworking recognizable masterpieces,
Drew's works are made
new and fresh, through the use of unique materials such as glitter,
flocking
and Swarovski crystals. The flashiness of the works gives them a
contemporary punch, in contrast to the serious stature of the original
works on
which she riffs. Nancy Drew recently exhibited at Roebling Hall and
in Open House: Brooklyn Art Today at the Brooklyn Museum. Her work
was included in Repeat Performance at Artists Space in New York, as well as BQE at White Box, New York.
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Celebrating
its 30th anniversary throughout 2005-2006, Real Art Ways is one of
the country’s seminal multi-disciplinary alternative spaces,
featuring an extensive gallery exhibition program, as well as commissioned
projects for public spaces and an on-going series of artistic discussions,
cinema programs, concerts, performances, spoken word and educational
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