Artist

Nancy Graves

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“I think that science is the most significant aspect of our time, and far more so than art. Art, if it will endure on some level – does inspire wonder. The scientific discoveries with which we are bombard surely do that too, and I think that art in some way has to acknowledge this.”

-Nancy Graves, 1979

Images

Gweet, 1978
oil on canvas
64 x 82 inches

Whiffle Tree (Pendula Series), 1985
polyurethane paint on cast bronze and stainless steel
97 x 60 x 65 inches

Simula, 1976
oil on canvas
64 x 76 inches

Riphaeus, 1976
oil on canvas
64 x 88 inches

Hekt, 1978
oil on canvas
73 x 53 inches

Mete-Point-Balance-Bound, 1986
bronze with polychrome patina
60 x 72 x 22 1/2 inches

Arachn (Separate), 1980
oil and sand on canvas
64 x 64 inches

Orthoarc, 1987
iron, steel, bronze with polychrome patina
53 x 32 x 24 1/2 inches

Ximbo 8/23/76, 1976
pastel on paper
38 x 50 inches

Yaurai, 1976
pastel on paper
38 x 50 inches

Rowth, 1976
pastel adn acrylic on paper
38 x 50 inches

Antenal, 1986
bronze and brass with polychrome patina and baked enamel
16 1/2 x 22 x 13 1/2 inches

Artist Bio

Nancy Graves (1939-1995) earned her MFA from Yale University in 1964. One-person exhibitions of her work have been organized at the Albright-Knox Gallery of Art, NY; Whitney Museum of Art, NY; Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany; The Fort Worth Art Museum, TX; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, DC; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, MO; Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY and ICA Philadelphia, PA. Graves is represented in the collections of major public institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; National Gallery of Art, DC; National Gallery of Canada, ON; Museum of Modern Art, NY; Whitney Museum of Art, NY; Walker Art Center, MN; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, DC; and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL. Catalogues raisonnes were published on her printed work (1996) and sculpture (1987). Locks Gallery has exhibited Graves's work since 1991.

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