- Delicate Balance - Carbon Drawing By Nancy Wolf




CONTEMPORARY-Modernism

Price: 

$2,500
Specifications
Designer/Artist
Designer VerificationSigned
Country of origin
United States
Material and techniquesOriginal conte carbon drawing.
Condition
Excellent condition of this very large drawing
Reference
MPD-005839
Measures (Inches)
- Height: 30 - Length: 22 1/2
Description

"Delicate Balance" by Nancy Wolf, (American, b. 1942), conte carbon original drawing, signed and dated 1989 (30" X 22 1/2").   

Wolf's works, as packed with information as a Bosch painting and as precise as old anatomical illustrations are a commentary on contemporary urban landscapes.  Wolf's pictures are both barometers of the latest architectural developments and cautionary tales about the urban landscape. The precision of this original drawing is quite amazing.  That the drawing is executed in conte carbon (a media that is somewhere between a pencil and charcoal) and is a very large image is remarkable.  

 

She juxtaposes versions of contemporary and historical buildings to create desolate uber-cities populated by hordes of tiny figures recognizable from Renaissance painting, commedia dell'arte and Voque.  Wolf's pictures are both barometers of the latest architectural developments and cautionary tales about the urban landscape. She juxtaposes versions of contemporary and historical buildings to create desolate uber-cities populated by hordes of tiny figures recognizable from Renaissance painting, commedia dell'arte and Voque. 

 

Her mix of familiar faces and forms forces the eye to roam again and again across her pictures, picking up new details every time. Culture vultures, especially aficionados who have tracked New York's recent architectural developments, can scan Wolf's drawings and find quotations of the latest in design. 

 

Biography 

 

Born: 1942 Easton, Pennsylvania

 

Education: 1964 BFA, Rhode Island School of Design

( European Honors Program, 1963 - 64 )

 

Selected Public Collections:

 

National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC

Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Florida

Sallie Mae Student Loan Marketing Association, Wash. DC

Blanton Museum of Art, Austin Texas

Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC

 

Selected Reviews:

 

Weil, Rex. "Nancy Wolf", Marsha Mateyka, Washington, DC, Artnews, Summer 2008

 

Lawrence, Sidney. "Nancy Wolf at Marsha Mateyka", Art in America, May 2008

 

Barbiero, Daniel. "Nancy Wolf", The New Art Examiner, May. 1988

 

Blake, Peter. "No Need for Words", Interior Design pp. 228-29, November. 1988

 

Danikian, Caron le Brun. "Painter Printmaker Looks at Future Space", The Christian

Science Monitor, August 4. 1973

 

Forgey, Benjamin. "Demolition Job: Artist Nancy Wolf's Dynamite Views of Modernist

Architecture", The Washington Post, Sept.21, pp. C1,C7. 1996

 

Forgey, Benjamin. "Wolf's Building Sense of Anger", The Washington Post, C2,

March 19. 1988

 

Lewis, Jo Ann. "The Art of Building", The Washington Post, G3, July. 1974

 

Lewis, Jo Ann. "Creating a New City with the Oddball Help of 16 Washington Artists",

The Washington Magazine, p.106, Nov. 1975

 

Lewis, Jo Ann. "Scaling Modern Architecture", The Washington Post, B7, December

31. 1981

 

Lewis, Jo Ann. "Wolf, Moving On", The Washington Post, Galleries, C2, April 20. 1985

 

Long, Andrew. "Openings", Art & Antiques, March 1999, p.36,38 1999

 

McCoy, Mary. "Wolf's Ominous Building Blocks", The Washington Post, Galleries, C2,

March 30. 1991

 

McWilliams, Martha. Washington City Paper, p.72, Oct. 14. 1994

 

Mulbetsch, Marilyn. "Nancy Wolf Paints Her Case", Boston Globe, p.71, July 29.1973

 

Power, Mark. "Works on Paper at Mateyka", The Washington Post, Galleries, C2,

November 27 1986

 

Sherman, Harvey E."Nancy Wolf: An Art of the Emotional Landscape", Utopian

Studies, 9,1, pp. 173-83 1998

 

Tucker, Patrick. "Deconstruction Sites", Museum and Arts Washington p. 73,

March/April 1991

 

 

Tucker, Patrick. "Soho Suite: A Response to Postmodern Architecture", Pulpsmith

p.26, vol. 8. 1989

 

Catalogues and Publications:

 

1996Franck, Karen, “Nancy Wolf, Hidden Cities Hidden

Longings”,monograph, published by Academy Editions,

London.

1994essay, "An Artist's Perspective on Type", Ordering Space

Types in Architecture, edited by Karen C. Franck and Lynda

Schneekloth, Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York.

1988“Nancy Wolf, Soho Suite: A Response to Postmodern

Architecture”, introduction by Wolf Von Eckardt, catalogue

published by Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC.

 

Lectures:

 

1996“Architecture Revealed”, American Institute of Architects, Washington, DC

1993-92"Utopia; Dystopia", New Jersey Institute of Technology