NANCY
GENN
Painter, Sculptor,
b. 1929
"The final piece is an evolution of intuitive process."
Nancy Genn's vocabulary has become that of light; that luminosity is translated beyond borders, and offers a meditation for our time.
- Jacquelin Pilar (Curator, Fresno Art Museum), Nancy Genn: Planes of Light Retrospective, Fresno Art Museum, 2003
Education
and Teaching
Studied at the California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco; University
of California, Berkeley, 1947-1949.
Selected
Solo Exhibitions 1945-1976
The New School, New York, 1951; Gump's Department Store Gallery, San Francisco,
1955, 1957, 1959; M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, 1955,
1963; David Cole Gallery, San Francisco, 1960; San Francisco Museum of
Art, 1961; Cowell College Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz,
1966, 1968; Richmond Art Center, California, 1970; Bolles Gallery, San
Francisco, 1971; The Oakland Museum, 1971; William Sawyer Gallery, San
Francisco, 1975; Suzanne Saxe Gallery, Denver, 1975; Los Angeles Institute
of Contemporary Art, 1976.
Selected
Group Exhibitions 1945-1978
California State Fair, 1947, 1950-1952, 1954, 1956-1958, 1960,
1965; Annual Exhibition: Oil Painting and Sculpture, The Oakland
Museum, 1948-1949, 1951-1955, 1957, 1961; Fourth Annual Exhibition
of Painting, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco,
1951; 71st-73rd Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the
San Francisco Art Association (from 1961, The San Francisco Art Institute)
at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1952-1954; 76th-77th Annual,
1957-1958; 80th Annual, 1961; The Art Bank of the San Francisco
Art Association, 1958, 1959-1960, 1962, 1964, 1966; First-Second Winter
Invitational, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco,
1960-1961; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1976; National Collection of
Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C.; Indianapolis Museum,
Indianapolis, Indiana, 1978.
Selected
Museum Collections
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Auckland Museum, New Zealand;
Brooklyn Museum of Art; Cincinnati Museum of Art, Cincinnati, Ohio; Fine
Arts Musuems of San Francisco; Indianapolis Musuem of Art, Indianapolis,
Indiana; International Centre of Aesthetic Research, Torino, Italy; Museum
of Modern Art, New York, New York; Library of Congress, Washington D.C.;
Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C.; New York University Art Collection,
New York, New York; The Oakland Museum, Oakland, California; San Francsico
Museum of Art, San Francisco, California; University of Texas, El Paso,
Texas; University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley.