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November 24, 2023

Nancy Davidson’s Wandering Carnival

by Fintan Boyle for Two Coats of Paint

Source or Omphalos, 2023, Installation View. Photo Credit: Therri Gourjon

Contributed by Fintan Boyle / A sense of serious satire has pervaded Nancy Davidson’s work for years, and it is on prominent display in her show “Braids Eggs and Legs: A Wandering,” installed in two large galleries at Catskill Art Space alongside Matt Nolen’s work. Davidson has long been a fan of morselized language and sundered bodies, which in theory would make her work fertile ground for the psychoanalytically inclined. Yet here she elides the sexual menace and violence that, say, Melanie Klein offers. Instead, she wanders, as her title announces.

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Nancy Davidson June 1, 2014

Nancy Davidson receives the 2014 US & Canada Guggenheim Fellowship

More information about the grant available here.

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