Bettcher Gallery | Nancy Spoelhof

NANCY SPOELHOF

For both painting and drawing I employ a process that involves working on several pieces simultaneously over the course of many months. While in the studio I first establish a framework of intersecting shapes across the pieces. As the shapes distill into a sort of architecture I focus on finding the natural spaces where the figures fit.

With the emerging figures, a feeling of social structure begins to take shape with the personalities of the subjects being conveyed through the contrast of their individual postures. The figure or figures within a given piece influence, and are influenced by, the surrounding pieces in a similar way to how styles and ideas develop within a social group.

The titles come last and, for the most part, are meant to elicit a conversational feeling. The way that bits and pieces of sentences filter in as you move through a group of people. The momentary context is established for the individual piece, distinguishing it from the group as it leaves the social context of the studio.

Education:

1998 BFA Degree, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1995 SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY

Awards:

1997 San Francisco Art Institute Grant

Solo Exhibitions:

2002 Momi Toby‚s, San Francisco, CA
2001 Architects & Heroes, San Francisco, CA
2001 Ver Unica, San Francisco, CA
2000 Introductory Show, Dolby-Chadwick Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998 Café Sapporo, San Francisco, CAGROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2001 Dirt at Blackbird Space, San Francisco, CA
1999 Mini Mini Market, Brooklyn, NY
1998 Microsoft Corporation, San Francisco, CA
1997 7th Note, San Francisco, CA
1997 Spring Show, San Francisco Art Institute, CA

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