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Nancy Drosd is a painter and graphic artist working in New York City. Since 2001 she has had four solo shows and participated in three group shows at the Tatistcheff Gallery in Chelsea. Her work is included in The Smithsonian, has been shown at the Queens and Brooklyn Museums, and is in the collection of Richard Mayer, Allan Stone, Johnson & Johnson, The New York Health and Hospitals Corporation, Lehman College, Paul Weiss Art Collection, Graham Norton, and Roger Angell among others.
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EXHIBITIONS
2005: The Tatistcheff Gallery, "Dogs" [Solo Show], New York, NY
2004: The Tatistcheff Gallery [Solo Show], New York, NY
2002: The Tatistcheff Gallery, "This Is Central Park" [Solo Show], New York, NY
2001: The Tatistcheff Gallery [Solo Show], New York, NY
1996: Lizan-Topps Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
1993: Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
1992: Witkin Gallery [Solo Show], New York, NY
1991: Jan Weiss Gallery, New York, NY
1984: Bellevue Hospital Center, "Celebrations," New York City Health and Hospital Corporation, New York, NY
1982: Metropolitan Museum of Miami, "Seven in Miami," Miami, FL
1980: Adler Gallery, "The Artist in the Park," New York, NY
1977: Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
1977: Rainbow Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1977: Joy Horwich Gallery, Chicago, IL
1976: The Queens Museum, New York, NY
1975: Miller King Gallery [Solo Show], Miami, FL
1974: James Camp Gallery [Solo Show], New York, NY
1974: Berenson Gallery, Miami, FL
1971: Allen Stone Gallery [Solo Show], New York, NY
1970: The Brooklyn Museum "17th National Print Exhibition," New York, NY
1970: The University of Puerto Rico
1970: Five editions of lithographs for MOURLOT GRAPHICS
1969: United States Pavilion, 1969 World’s Fair Osaka, Japan
COLLECTIONS
The Smithsonian Institution
New York Public Library
Johnson and Johnson
Lehman College
New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation
Bellevue Hospital Center
U.S.I.A.
Mourlot Graphics
Katherine Kuh
Jean Frank
Richard Mayer
Allan Stone
Robert Rosengarden
Ray Charles
Mr. and Mrs. Goldfarb
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Kovner
Mr. and Mrs. Vivian Jacobs
Leslie Teicholz
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Levy
Mr. and Mrs. Gruntals
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Hyatt
Ellen Rosenbloom
Mr. and Mrs. John Rothchild
Mr. and Mrs. Ernan Roman
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Nash
Mr. and Mrs. Bert Margolis
Victor Kiam
BIBLIOGRAPHY
New Yorker Magazine, About Town, June 6, 2005
The New York Times: Arts Section, February 20, 2004
The New York Times: City Section, January 21, 2001
The New York Times: Arts Section, January 19, 2001
American Heritage Magazine (Volume 32, Number 3), April 30, 1980, page 89
High Fidelity Magazine (Volume 24, Number 10), September 30, 1974, page MA1
Women's Wear Daily, June 11, 1974, page 14
The Miami Herald, May 29, 1974, page 1D
New York Magazine (Volume 7, Number 13), March 31, 1974, page 66
The Miami Herald, May 2, 1971, page 2K
Arts Magazine, January 31, 1972, page 72
The Miami Herald, May 2, 1971, page 2K
17th National Print Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum Catalogue, August 31, 1970
The Reporter, August 9, 1970, page 7A
The New York Times, June 2, 1970, page 17
American Home (Volume LXXIIM Number 5), May 31, 1969, page 48
The Miami Herald, May 12, 1968, page 16E
The Fort Lauderdale News, May 12, 1968, page 64
EDUCATION
1965 B.A., Fine Arts, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
1964 Painting Scholarship, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
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"Down Puccini!" by Rogers Angell, The New Yorker, June 6, 2005
Nancy Drosd's dog paintings began a year or so ago with a three-foot-wide likeness of a ten-inch toy poodle—an "attack poodle" named Puccini seen in extreme closeup, with its eyes touching the top of the canvas like Clint Eastwood's under that sombrero. Drosd, whose previous paintings, large-scale, fanatically detailed, oil landscapes of Central Park, sometimes showed a leashed Lab or Peke on a distant path, calls Puccini her liberator, and she has followed with similar nose-first likenesses of her subjects named Caliban and Zazi and Zoloft and Harry and others she meets everyday on the bridle path off East Ninetieth Street while walking her own Beato, an amiable Spinone Italiano. Drosd works slowly, with tiny brushes, building the picture hair by hair for several weeks-or in the case of the hairy, patient Beato, longer. Quoting Bonnard (the painter, not the dog), she says that a painting is many little lies adding up to a great truth.
"Art Listings," by Grace Glueck, The New York Times, February 20, 2004
With small and meticulous brushstrokes Ms. Drosd conjures up an overwhelmingly lush and vivid parkscape whose trees all but swallow up the figures, mostly children, who make their way through them. In "Cherry Blossoms" a veritable explosion of floral foliage all but dwarfs two little girls. "First Snow, Fifth Avenue and 89th" coats bare trees and branches with thick crusts of white alongside a slippery path whose sole occupant is a man gingerly walking a small dog. A subtle colorist, Ms. Drosd deftly conveys the enchantments of this very special place
"FROM VILLAGE GREEN TO URBAN OASIS," The New York Times, January 21, 2001
The beauty, drama and urban interaction are seen in an exhibition of eighteen paintimgs by Nancy Drosd at the Tatistcheff Gallery, in its new Chelsea location. Her work chronicles the evolution of the space from village green to athletic oasis. "Many of my paintings," she said, "are about running which is a metaphor for our life on the move in the city."
"Central Park Paintings," by Ken Johnson, The New York Times, January 19, 2001
Viewed from a distance, Ms. Drosd's luminously flickering paintings of Central Park Joggers and pedestrians dappled or silhouetted by radiant leaf-filtered light are like Tiffany stained-glass windows; up close, they have a deft but not too fussy painterly touch.