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Nancy Goldring
Born
Nancy Deborah Goldring

(1945-01-25) January 25, 1945 (age 79)
Oak Ridge, Tennessee
NationalityAmerican
Known forDrawing, Photography, Projection

Nancy Goldring (born 1945) is an American artist. Her art practice combines graphic, photographic, and projected material, presented as a non-narrative series of images that she calls "foto-projections." Goldring currently lives and works in New York City, and is a professor emerita, Montclair State University.[1]

Early life and education

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Goldring grew up in University City, Missouri. She was educated at University City High School, received a BA in Art History at Smith College, and an MA in Fine Art at NYU. She received her first Fulbright Grant to Italy immediately following Smith College.[2]

Work

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While a graduate student, she was a co-founder of Sculpture in the Environment (SITE), an organization of artists dedicated to developing public art projects.[3] After leaving SITE she began developing her own work, and continued to write about public sculpture. Together with architects Michael Webb of Archigram and Giuliano Fiorenzoli she collaborated on an exhibition, Image of the Home[4] at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York City.

Goldring's work incorporates drawing, paper models, photography, and slide projection. Photos are layered like collages and eventually flattened into a final image, evocative of layers of archeological excavation.[5] There is a focus on travel and memory and the final pieces are sometimes shown as large slide projection installations.

Her archive is held by the Smithsonian Institution.[6]

In 2020, she produced an exhibition, “Reflessi di Storia,” as a corporate commission for CFT International Headquarters in Parma, Italy. It remains on permanent view.

Collaborations

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Nancy Goldring has worked on numerous collaborations including:

  • SITE
  • Image of the Home[7] with Giuliano Fiorenzoli, and Michael Webb
  • Aureola with Juan Downey, Giuliano Fiorenzoli, and Michael Webb
  • Stage set design with Ze'Eva Cohen, "Ode"[8]

Exhibitions

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Nancy Goldring's work has been shown primarily in the USA, but she has also exhibited in countries such as Italy, India, Japan, Sweden and Czech Republic. A selection of notable individual exhibitions includes:

  • Reflessi di Storia CFT Collection, Permanent exhibition, Parma, Italy from Dec. 2019
  • Photographic work by Nancy Goldring, Carrie Haddad Gallery, Hudson, New York, Sept-Nov. 2018
  • Projections: Place without Description, Devi Art Foundation, Sarai Center for Developing Studies, Delhi, 2012-2013
  • Vanishing Points (Punti di Fuga), The Monitor Space, Casa di Architettura, Rome, Apr. 2012; Galleria Martini & Ronchetti, Genoa, Italy, Sept. - Oct. 2013
  • Palimpsest, Gallery 138, New York City, Mar. 2006
  • Palinsesto, Palazzo Pigorini, Parma, Italy, 2005, catalog with essays by David Levi Strauss
  • Legend, Lyman Allen Museum,[9] New London, CT, 2002
  • Sites and Sets, Baruch College, New York, 2001
  • Distillations, Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL, 2000
  • Foto-Projections, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA, 1993
  • Images of Myanmar: Inle Lake and Pagan, Arts for Transit, sponsored by MTA, Grand Central Station, New York, 1992
  • Studio on Stromboli, Mississippi Museum of Art, The Open Gallery, Jackson, MS, 1983
  • Drawings with Foto-Projections, The Herzliya Museum, The American Cultural Center of Tel Aviv, 1981-1983
  • Trepidation of the Spheres: Drawings with Foto-Projections, Camera Club, New York, 1981
  • Drawings with Foto-Projections, SOHO 20, New York, 1980
  • Nancy Goldring: Drawings, Comfort Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, PA, 1976

Goldring has also participated in a large number of group exhibitions, including:

Collections

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Goldring's work can be found in more than 30 public collections around the world, including:

Publications

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  • Distillations: Nancy Goldring Drawings and Foto-Projections 1971-2021 (Goff ORO Editions, 2022)[14]
  • Shadow’s Shadow: Shadow of a Doubt, Precog Magazine, Volume 6, 2022
  • Michael Taussig interview with Nancy Goldring, November Magazine, Volume 1, August 2021 [15]
  • The Clumsy Ark, (Sprachlichter: 2020)[16]
  • Shadows’ Shadows, (Metambesen: 2020)
  • School of Nite, Peter Lamborn Wilson and Nancy Goldring (Spuyten Duyvil Press: Jan 2016)[17][18]
  • Putting Yourself in a Place Where Grace can Flow to You, The Brooklyn Rail,[19] Feb 5, 2015
  • Occupy: 3 Inquiries into Disobedience, Michael Taussig, Photographs by Nancy Goldring, (Chicago University Press, April 2013)
  • Reviews, The Architects Newspaper, 2009-2018 [20]
  • Nancy Goldring on Walls: Enrichment and Ornamentation Reanimation Library Sep, 2012 [21]
  • Nancy Goldring: Punti di fuga, altri paesaggi, Nancy Goldring, Paolo Barbaro, Michael Taussig, and Carlo Vannicola (Il Geko Edizioni, 2012)[22]
  • On Why Artists Loved Leo Steinberg, The Brooklyn Rail, April 2011
  • Palimpsest: fotografie di Nancy Goldring, Nancy Goldring, David Levi Strauss, Paolo Barbaro (Gabriele Mazzotta, 2005)[23]
  • Distillations, Nancy Goldring, Alison Divine Nordstrom, and Ellen Handy, (Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach Community College, 2000)[24]
  • Dream Stills, Avant Garde: Journal of Architecture and Aesthetics, University of CO, September 1993
  • Imagining Egypt, Avant Garde: Journal of Architecture and Aesthetics, University of CO, July 1991

Recognition

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Goldring has been the recipient of awards and grants from such institutions as the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the American Institute of Architecture, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, and the Santa Fe Art Institute. She has received multiple Fulbright Awards to Italy, Sri Lanka, and India, as well as awards from Montclair State University.

References

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  1. ^ "Profile Pages-Nancy Goldring". Monstclair State University. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  2. ^ "Artist Nancy Goldring". International Center of Photography. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  3. ^ "Artist Nancy Goldring". International Center of Photography. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  4. ^ "Pesign Notebook". The New York Times. 1978-03-02. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-06-04.
  5. ^ "Nancy Goldring". International Center of Photography. 2016-03-02. Retrieved 2020-05-20.
  6. ^ "Series 4 | A Finding Aid to the Nancy Goldring papers, circa 1950-2015". www.aaa.si.edu. Retrieved 2020-05-11.
  7. ^ "Image of the Home". Google Books. 1977. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  8. ^ Dunning, Jennifer (11 January 1987). "THE DANCE: ZE'EVA COHEN". The New York Times. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  9. ^ Lax, Nancy Goldring and Robert (2015-02-05). ""PUTTING YOURSELF IN A PLACE WHERE GRACE CAN FLOW TO YOU" Nancy Goldring on Robert Lax". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 2020-05-11.
  10. ^ Smith, Joshua P; Jaroch, Diane; National Museum of American Art (U.S.) (1989). The Photography of invention: American pictures of the 1980s, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-19280-4. OCLC 18628921.
  11. ^ "eMuseum". allenartcollection.oberlin.edu. Retrieved 2020-05-11.
  12. ^ "Legend: The Unpainted Shore". collections.eastman.org. Retrieved 2020-05-11.
  13. ^ Jenne, Ginger (2012-01-17). "Classical Mythology in Modern and Contemporary Art: Works from the Permanent Collection | The William Benton Museum of Art". Retrieved 2020-05-11.
  14. ^ Goldring, Nancy (September 2022). Distillations: Nancy Goldring Drawings and Foto-Projections 1971-2021. ISBN 978-1954081666.
  15. ^ "November: Michael Taussig".
  16. ^ Goldring, Nancy (11 January 2021). The Clumsy Ark: Das Schwimmende Palimpsest. ISBN 978-3948824037.
  17. ^ Lambron Wilson, Peter; Goldring, Nancy (2016). School of Nite (1 ed.). Sputen Duyvil. ISBN 978-1-941550-82-3. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  18. ^ Wilson, Peter Lamborn; Goldring, Nancy (2016). School of Nite. ISBN 978-1941550823.
  19. ^ ""PUTTING YOURSELF IN a PLACE WHERE GRACE CAN FLOW TO YOU" Nancy Goldring on Robert Lax". 5 February 2015.
  20. ^ "Nancy Goldring, Author at the Architect's Newspaper".
  21. ^ "Reanimation Library - Word Processor - Nancy Goldring".
  22. ^ Goldring, Nancy; Barbaro, Paolo; Taussig, Michael; Vannicola, Carlo (2012). Nancy Goldring: Punti di fuga, altri paesaggi. Genoa: Il Geko Edizioni. ISBN 9788898004027.
  23. ^ Goldring, Nancy; Strauss, David Levi; Barbaro, Paolo (2005). Palimpsest: fotografie di Nancy Goldring. Milan: Gabriele Mazzotta. ISBN 8820217465. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  24. ^ Goldring, Nancy (2000). Distillations. Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach Community College. ISBN 1887040293.
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