Nancy Lorenz

Alt text: Abstract paint and gilt patterns on burlap mounted to a wood board, angled view

Nancy Lorenz
American, b. 1962
Moon, 2014
Paint and gilt on canvas
10 1/8 H. x 9 W. inches

Alt text: Mixed media on paper work with abstract patterns of abalone and shining gilt surfaces

Alt text: Detail of bottom right corner, signed NL 2014

Nancy Lorenz
American, b. 1962
Yacht Commission Study II, 2014
Mixed media on paper
9 H. x 6 ½ W. inches

Alt text: Mirror panel with abstracted gold attached to the top

Nancy Lorenz
American, b. 1962
Moon Gold Clouds, 2010
Mirror, moon gold
10 H. x 8 W. inches

Alt text: Flat putty-clay artwork with pink abalone, mounted on wood

Nancy Lorenz
American, b. 1962
Pink Abalone, 2009
Red and gold putty clay
10 H. x 8 W. inches

Alt text: Flat silver leaf, resin, and pigment artwork mounted on wood

Nancy Lorenz
American, b. 1962
Tile Study, 2014
Silver-leaf, resin, pigment on canvas
4 5/8 H. x 3 1/2 W. inches

Alt text: Mirror with silver leaf splotches dropped onto it, fixed to wood

Alt text: Verso of mirror artwork, signed

Nancy Lorenz
American, b. 1962
Forms, 2010
Mirror, silver leaf
7 3/4 H. x 5 5/8 W. inches

Artist Description

Nancy Lorenz earned a BFA Summa Cum Laude in Painting and Printmaking at the University of Michigan. She received an MFA in Painting from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and Rome, and a John Simon Guggenheim Award in 1998. Lorenz lives and works in New York City.

“Nancy Lorenz creates highly finished, abstract work out of luxury materials; her work is sensual, exploratory, tactile, and playful. Inspired by traditional Japanese forms, materials, and craftsmanship, as well as through her own awareness of twentieth-century art practice, she seeks to revisit and re-imagine the art object, to somehow ‘make it new.’” – Justin Spring, American art and culture writer.