Word: speros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Amidst her images, her assistants and the pieces in the permanent collection at the Sackler Museum, Nancy Spero is completely at home. She carries the quiet authority of forty years of experience in the arts, but her voice is continually questioning...
...this installation, Spero has chosen five images from the Sackler's ancient and Asian collections to "mingle" with images from her own collection. The images include dancing apsaras from Cambodia and China, an aphrodite holding a dove from 450 B.C. and a statuette of a hip-popotamus goddess from the 9th century...
...Spero says that she is reacting to both the collection and the architecture. Since the gallery is mostly monochromatic, her figures are very colorful, brilliant tourquoise, green, bright pink. Spero comments, "It's paying homage to the pieces here. I love...
...Spero gleans her own images from a vast array of time periods and cultures, ranging from Egyptian figures to prehistoric African wall-drawings to images of women from the 1920s. A photograph or an outline of an image is then transferred to a rubber stencil, which can be used to make repeated color prints...
Accordingly, "Power, Pleasure and Pain" features as wide variety of approaches to female subjects, Images of empowerment include Nancy Spero's "To the Revolution: VII," which represents vigorous female archetypes and mythic goddesses joining contemporary figures moving toward an unseen goal, as well as Denise Carbone's "Genitalia Print," which is juxtaposed with a print of the artist's face...