Nancy Agati's Portico Series consists of mixed media works on black paper, which emphasize intricately drawn lines and painted brush strokes from handmade, clay-based paint. These images, which display a lace-like, mandala quality, are patterns generated by the repetition of a design element from a carved wooden doorway in Rome. The placement of shape and repetition of pattern within each piece, has become a loose mathematical method for the artist to explore a multitude of visual possibilities.
Courtesy of Susanna W. Gold, Ph.D
Ink, graphite, clay slip, and polymer on paper
30.00 x 22.00 in
76.2 x 55.9 cm
Signed lower right and verso.
Nancy Agati's Portico Series consists of mixed media works on black paper, which emphasize intricately drawn lines and painted brush strokes from handmade, clay-based paint. These images, which display a lace-like, mandala quality, are patterns generated by the repetition of a design element from a carved wooden doorway in Rome. The placement of shape and repetition of pattern within each piece, has become a loose mathematical method for the artist to explore a multitude of visual possibilities.
Courtesy of Susanna W. Gold, Ph.D
Portico Series exhibited 2018 NºBA Artspaces, Bala Cynwyd, PA; 2016 Sonesta Hotel and Art Bar; 2014 International Art & Artists, Hillyer Art Space, Washington, DC.
"(Portico Series) are rendered on black paper with ink, graphite, acrylic and clay slips, yielding a reflective quality ...complex and shimmering, such exquisite compositions as “Basques” and “Delicata”evoke flowers, jewelry and orderly galaxies in the dark of space." The Washington Post - By Mark Jenkins, Published: February 21, 2014advisor@artspace.com
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