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BIOGRAPHY
Lisa Nankivil (b. 1958), Famoustly Private, 2009
Oil on canvas, 72 x 88 inches
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A contemporary abstractionist, Lisa Nankivil creates distinctive and highly
sensuous compositions in which she alternates areas of gestural brushwork with
linear ribbons of richly variegated hues. Employing devices such as blades, rubber
squeegees, T-squares, and pieces of cardboard and wood, she presses and scrapes
her surfaces, imbuing the edges of her colored bands with lush textures that act
as a counterpoint to the painted ground. Nankivil works intuitively, constructing
abstract motifs directly on the canvas while emphasizing the tangible aspects of
pure paint through innumerable applications of opaque and transparent color.
Her optical mixing further activates the contrasts and harmonies of her paintings,
inviting a close inspection of the nuanced interplay of space, form, color, and tone. At the same time, her images exhibit an elemental unity that arises from the
carefully considered formal structure and the syncopated rhythms of her linear
designs. With color as a metaphor, Nankivil’s paintings explore a spiritual realm,
eliciting feelings, associations, and meanings that allude to a concrete, visible reality.
Ultimately, it is this meditative content and its emotional resonance that lies at the
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Artist CV
Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Studied at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, Lisa Nankivil: New Paintings , 2011.
Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, Art Chicago 2011, 2011.
Visual Arts Center, University of Texas at Austin; New Prints 2010, 2011.
MASS MoCA, North Adams, An Exchange with Sol LeWitt, 2011.
Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, Time and Again, 2011.
Spanierman Modern, New York, Gallery Selections, 2011.
Miami, Florida, Art Miami 2010, 2010.
Miami Beach, Florida, INK Miami Art Fair, 2010.
X Initiative, New York, Editions/Artists' Books Fair 2010, 2010.
Park Avenue Armory, New York, IFPDA Print Fair, 2010.
International Print Center New York, New Prints 2010/Autumn, 2010.
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona, Thirty Years of Collecting: A Recent Gift to the Museum, 2010.
Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, Art Chicago 2010, 2010.
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore Fair for Contemporary Prints & New Editions, 2010.
Traffic Zone Center for Visual Art, Minneapolis, Sustainable Currents, 2010.
Traffic Zone Center for Visual Art, Minneapolis, Famously Private: New Work by Lisa Nankivil, 2009.
Miami, Florida, Red Dot Art Fair, 2009.
X Initiative, New York, Editions/Artists' Books Fair 2009, 2009.
Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, Dirty Dozen, 2009.
Turchin Center for Visual Arts, Boone, North Carolina, Halpert Biennial '09, 2009.
St. Mary's University, Winona, Minnesota, Southeast Minnesota Regional Art Exhibition, 2009.
Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, Art Chicago 2009, 2009.
Chelsea Art Museum, New York, Music & Art, 2008.
The Tunnel, New York, Editions/Artists' Books Fair 2008, 2008.
Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, Highpoint Editions: Recent Publications, 2008.
Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Group Dialogue, 2008.
Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, Lisa Nankivil: World's Edge, 2008.
Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, Abstraction: Summer 2008, 2008.
Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, Art Chicago 2008, 2008.
Meridian International Center, Washington, D.C., Out West: The Great American Landscape, (also shown at the National Art Museum of China, Beijing; Gallery of Sinkiang Academy of Arts, Urumqi; Shanxi Art Museum, Xi'an; Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai; Qingdao Modern Art Center; Guangzhou Museum of Fine Arts; Hong Kong Heritage Discovery Center; Dana Gallery, Missoula, Montana), 2007-8.
Thomas McCormick Gallery, Art Miami 2007, 2007.
Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Taizo Kuroda, Kumiko Namba, and Lisa Nankivil, 2007.
Traffic Zone Center for Visual Art, Minneapolis, In the Zone, 2007.
Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, Art Chicago 2007, 2007.
Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Spirited Expressions, 2006.
Traffic Zone Center for Visual Art, Minneapolis, Emergence, 2006.
Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Spring Forward, 2006.
Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, Art Chicago 2006, 2006.
Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, Lisa Nankivil: Betty & Veronica, 2005.
MCAD Gallery, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Michael Gaughan / Kirk McCall / Abinadi Meza / Lisa Nankivil: Jerome Foundation Fellowship Exhibition, 2005.
Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, Art Chicago, 2005.
Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, Art Chicago 2004, 2004.
Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, Los Angeles Art Show (FADA), 2004.
Winona Arts Center, Minnesota, Lisa Nankivil: Recent Paintings, 2002-3.
Traffic Zone Center for Visual Art, Minneapolis, Art on the Town, 2002.
Soap Factory, Minneapolis, Necessary Differences II, 2000.
Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, Minnesota Biennial: 2D 2000, 2000.
MCAD Gallery, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Other Realities, 1997.
Suzanne Kohn Gallery, St. Paul, Minnesota, The New Generation: Emerging Minnesota Artists, 1996.
Acadia Gallery, Minneapolis, Group Show, 1996.
Larson Art Gallery, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Explorations, 1995.
Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Necessary Differences, 1995.
SELECTED REFRENCES
“More than Words: The Re-purposed Book.” mnartists.org, September 10, 2009.
Mary Abbe, “Turn of the Page,” Star Tribune , September 11, 2009.
"Art Review: A Gallery Crawl," Star Tribune , September 26, 2008.
“Biennial Redux, a Welcome Revival,” Star Tribune , May 5, 2000.
“In the Galleries: Talking Pictures Tell the Stories in College Exhibition,” Star Tribune , January 18, 1997.
Heidi Aerial, “'Necessary Differences II' at the Soap Factory,” Pulse (Minneapolis), November 1-7, 2000.
Audrey Albright, “Artists Capture the Great American West,” The World and I (online edition), March 2007.
Harriet Bart and Dennis Michael Jon, X LIBRIS: The Re-Purposed Book, Exh. cat. (Minneapolis: Traffic Zone Center for Visual Art, 2009).
Patricia Briggs, “The A List: ‘Necessary Differences II'” City Pages (Minneapolis), November 8, 2000.
Lisa Nankivil: Betty & Veronica , Exh. cat. (Chicago: Thomas McCormick Gallery, 2005).
Julie Caniglia,“The A List: ‘Other Realities,'” City Pages , January 22-29, 1997.
Michael Fallon, "Future Anterior: Lisa Nankivil,” ART PAPERS (January-February 2010): 61.
"Art of the State," City Pages , June 28, 2000.
Clea. Felien, “Other Realities” Southside Pride (Minneapolis), January 1997.
Doug Hanson, “These Artists are Doing it for Themselves,” Star Tribune, October 27, 2000.
Bill Hendricks, “It's Been Too Long,” artchangeslives.com (online pub.), October 4, 2005.
Kristin Makholm, “Lisa Nankivil,” Exh. cat. (Minneapolis: Minneapolis College of Art and Design, 2005).
Joanne Mattera, “Fair Enough: Art Miami,” Joanne Mattera Art Blog, December 22, 2010.
"Fair and Fair Alike: Miami 2009,” Joanne Mattera Art Blog, December 18, 2009.
"Fair Factor: Art Miami," Joanne Mattera Art Blog , December 10, 2007.
Ken McCullough, Obsidian Point: A Triptych (Red Wing, Minn.: Lone Oak Press, 2003).
Katie Michel, New Prints 2010/Autumn , (New York: International Print Center New York, 2010).
"My Picks: Luke Donald," Golfweek 34 (March 21, 2008).
William Peterson, “Lisa Nankivil,” (Santa Fe, N.M.: Gerald Peters Gallery, 2007).
Meg Rahn, "A Conversation with Artist Lisa Nankivil,” Presstime (Fall-Winter 2008): 4-5.
Amy Scott, Out West: The Great American Landscape . Exh. cat. (Washington, D.C.: Meridian
International Center, in cooperation with the National Art Museum of China, Beijing, 2007).
Cristof Traudes, "Non-linear Lines," Downtown Journal, November 23, 2009.
Water~Stone Review 8 (2005), 290.
COLLECTIONS
Borusan Center for Culture and Arts, Istanbul, Turkey
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona
Dorsey & Whitney LLP, Minneapolis
Encantado Resort, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Gary Lee Partners, Chicago, New York, & San Francisco
General Mills, Golden Valley, Minnesota
Harris Private Bank, Chicago
Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis
Leonard, Street and Deinard, Minneapolis
Missie Bender Design, Chicago
Northland Organic Foods, St. Paul, Minnesota
Palazzo Resort, Las Vegas
Patrick and Jaleh Peyton
Peregrine Capital Management/Robert Mersky, Minneapolis
Plymouth Congregational Church, Minneapolis
Surdna Foundation, New York
U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C.
Valspar, Minneapolis
William J. Clinton Foundation, New York & Little Rock, Arkansas
Winston & Strawn LLP, New York, Chicago, & San Francisco
Steven & Dottie Diamant, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Luke Donald & Diane Antonopoulos Donald, Chicago
Leslie Hindman, Chicago
Kenneth & Phyllis Langsdorf, St. Louis
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