Nancy Fishel's portfolio

Work samples

Downpour

Downpour is a three part print of bicyclists and people walking in the rain. Below the triptych is another image of bicycle wheels being ridden through the rain.
Slow Looking

"Slow Looking" is from my Museum series that investigates the ways patrons visit museums. In this image, a colorful display of posters is inferred as they sit on brightly colored walls. Some patrons sit on a bench as others walk slowly in front of the yellow displays.
Two Dresses

This block print diptych shows two different women from my Pedestrian series. The woman on the left is printed in black and white with a black background and the woman on the right is wearing an orange dress, created by using a stencil beneath the black print.
Perusing the Unread White

This Museum picture was inspired from a visit to the Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart Tasmania. The art installation was a library of blank white books. I have shown the movement of patrons through the space, focusing on a man dressed in a black shirt as he moves through the space, and the books make their mark on him.

About Nancy

Nancy Keene Fishel's current work focuses on observations of people moving through spaces, both at home and abroad. This documentation reflects an interest in the ephemeral and the inevitable passage of time, The dynamism of human movement, passing of time, the energy of our ever changing lives and interaction of people are a focus of these compositions. Dance, play, music, art, walking, running, cycling, becoming lost in a crowd, spending time with friends and being alone are all… more

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Pedestrians

In this series, I explore the movement of people through public, mostly urban, universal or specific spaces. As I travel, I am often drawn to the people moving through a city, town or landscape, how they intersect and interact with the enviornment and one another.

Jazz, Fast and Slow

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Pedestrians Rule the Road
Lockstep

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White and Black

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A Flash of Peach
Bits of Bikes
Couples
White Umbrella
Strutting in the City
Pedestrians #1

Pedestrian Prints

In this series I reinterpret images from my Pedestrian digital paintings into block prints. I often create multiple printing plates from one reference in order to print a series that may include a single plate, be a diptych or a triptych or a print that contains multiple images.

Stripes

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White Unbrella

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Two Dresses

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Family Outing
White and Black
Pedestrians#4
Pedestrian #1
A Couple of Cyclists
Pedestrian #2

Visits to a Museum

People visit museums for many different reasons, for personal or spiritual inspiration, to inspire creativity, create a personal space for thoughtfulness, to appreciate the skill and thoughts of others, to learn about art history and cultures, to escape the everyday world, for solitude or to interact with other people, to name a few. These reasons powerfully resonate with me; however, I also have been drawn to observing the ways other people experience the spaces and artworks they encounter in these public edifices.

I love to visit museums when I travel, and have certainly been moved, educated and inspired by exhibits I have seen. However, I also have become enthralled with watching how other people experience these public spaces; how they look at the art, move through the spaces, interact with other visitors, and become a dynamic part of the museum experience. This is what I have strived to document in this series of digital paintings.

Many of these images are composites of multiple photographs, which are then used as references as I layer the photographs to create a finished composition that is digitally painted. The movement, overlapping images and solitary figures are culled from multiple images to be included in a final composition. Some of the artworks are obscured, some are celebrated, and some have their scale or details changed. Art from Art, inspiration is to be found everywhere.