Nancy Friedemann

Born:

1961

Residence:

New York, New York, USA

Nationality:

Colombian

Trust:

APT Mexico City

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You are our first interviewee from South America. In this presidential election cycle, there is a major emphasis on immigration, especially regarding Mexico, and Spanish-speaking people. In looking at your history, how does being born in Colombia, South America, with an American father and Colombian mother affect you and factor in your work? I have observed that you are constantly exploring this duality.
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Art Files of the Flatlanders reviewed Nancy Friedemann-Sánchez’s show at the Nebraska Museum
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Nancy Friedemann, Untitled (2014) Four-color woodcut on Sekishu paper, 30 x 55 inches. Edition of 10. Printed and published by Constellation Studios, Lincoln, NE. $4,500. In the 16th century, Andalucian nuns brought lace and embroidery techniques to Colombia, where the imported vocabulary of Hispano-Moresque motifs was expanded by native flora and fauna, resulting in a distinctive art of mantillas and shawls with the delicacy and resilience of gossamer. This hand art has fostered continuity from generation to generation, offering reassurance that life persists. Colombian painter Nancy Friedemann’s enamel-on-mylar lace “drawings” share the reverence for handmade textiles that marks the work of contemporary artists such as Miriam Schapiro, but have their roots in the specific traditions of Colombia...
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The Gallery @ 1GAP announces the opening of its newest exhibition, featuring selected works by Nancy Friedemann. The exhibition is on display until
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The Gallery @ 1GAP announces the opening of its newest exhibition, featuring selected works by Nancy Friedemann. The exhibition is on display until
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In her work Nancy Friedemann deliberately manages an economy of materials. Her large-scale drawings allude to Minimalism and the Pattern and Decoration Movement but explicitly explore the experiences of identity, memory and gender. Her work is representative of contemporary feminist expressions and was selected for the Feminist Art Base at the Brooklyn Museum in New York.

Friedemann received her masters degree from New York University; a BFA from Otis Art Institute and completed undergraduate studies at La Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia.

Recent individual exhibitions include: Neues Kunstforum, Cologne, Germany; Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami; Collette Blanchard Gallery, New York; Frost Museum, Miami; Galeria Diners, Bogotá; Cheryl Pelavin Fine Arts, New York; Sheldon Memorial Art Museum, Lincoln, Nebraska; Queens Museum of Art, New York; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Panamá.

Selected group shows include: La Bienal de Cuenca, Ecuador; Portland Museum of Art; The Museum of the University of New Mexico; Anina Nosei Gallery, New York; El Museo del Barrio, New York; Museo del Arte de Puerto Rico; University at Albany Art Museum; Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá; San Luis Obispo Art Center, California; Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York and Gasworks, London.

Friedemann has been awarded a Smithsonian Artist Fellowship, a Pufffin Foundation grant, a Pollock Krasner grant and a National Association of Latino Arts and Culture grant. She has also been nominated to the Rema Hort Mann and to the Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation.

Friedemann's works are in the collections of Karen and Robert Duncan, Jose Mugrabi, El Museo del Barrio, The Cleveland Museum, The Museum University of New Mexico, El Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Panamá, El Museo de Arte Moderno, Cali Colombia, and el Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Bogotá, Colombia.

The artist has been reviewed by El Nuevo Herald, 2010, 2009; New York Magazine, 2009; New York Times, (2004, 2002, 1998); in addition to Artforum, The Paris Review, Time Out, Art Paper, Art Nexus, El Espectador and Revista Semana, among others.

For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art

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