NANCY LASAR

ARTIST STATEMENT

Whether in drawing, painting, printmaking or collage, the process for me is about layering and energizing space in such a way that objects are fluid, interconnected and full of energy and movement. I try to use a variety of lines, marks and media to suggest both stasis and openness to possibility and transformation.

 

ARTIST BIO

Critics have described my work with such phrases as “drawing with light”, “condensed energy and flow”, “calm and crazy” and “organized chaos. Charles Cajori in 2005 stated

“A sinuous line flows through Nancy Lasar’s work sometimes fleet, sometimes surprisingly tangled. Spontaneous, delighted, a splay of line and shape. Almost random at times, almost out of control risking disorder. What is being served is the deciphering of space – charging the surfaces with energy, the coming together of multitudes of forces….”

Lasar is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Painting and graduated as a RISD Scholar receiving the Pell Medal for Excellence in Art History. She attended the Yale Graduate School for Painting and studied the history of film at Columbia.

Lasar has been widely exhibited in the Northeast, Midwest and internationally in China, Sweden and Japan.  She has had numerous solo exhibitions at the Mattatuck Museum, Amy Simon Fine Art, New Arts Gallery, Five Points Gallery, A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn and Site: Brooklyn: The Yard, Bryant Park N.Y., The Washington Art Association and the Silvermine Gallery. Invitational and Group Exhibitions include The International Print Center N.Y., The Center for Contemporary Printmaking, Art of the Northeast at the Silvermine Gallery, The Judy Black Park and Gardens (2020 and 2026), Avon Old Farms Hotel, Minor Memorial Library, The Bruce Museum, The Lyman Allen Museum, the DeCordova Museum, The New Britain Museum of American Art.

Lasar’s work is included in numerous Collections such as Aetna Life and Casualty, The General Mills Corp., Pfizer Corp., The Center for Contemporary Printmaking, The Karsdale Collection and C.& J. Goodfriend Drawings and Prints NY as well as numerous private collections nation wide and abroad.

Lasar is now represented by 68 Prince St Gallery, Kingston, NY, VanDeb Editions, Amy Simon Fine Art, A.I.R. Gallery as an Alumnae Artist, The Silvermine Gallery and the Washington Art Association (Ct.) She has received two Individual Artist Fellowships from the State of Ct. and a grant from The Vermont Studio Center. Nancy Lasar has lived and worked in Washington Depot Ct. for close to 50 years.

 

Associations:

www.airgallery.org
www.amysimonfineart.com
www.stephenlasararchitects.com
www.fivepointsgallery.org
www.vandebeditions.com
www.1stdibs.com
https://www.washingtonartassociation.org
http://www.artnet.com
https://www.artsy.net/partner/artemisa/works