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

Baltimore City, Baltimore County

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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Visits to a Museum

In this series I focus on vignettes observed in museums I have visited in many different locations around the world. I focus on the way the visitors interact with the art as they move through the gallery spaces, walking past. looking at or interacting with a variety of artwork in the different museum spaces. .

A Brush with Johns
Gilding the Mountain
Walking Blindly
Decending in the Darkness
Peackock Resplendant
Fading Into the Future
Human
Picturing Kahlo
Walking and Waiting
Three Women and the Demoiselles

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.

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

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.