- Nancy Calef
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Nancy Calef is a contemporary American figurative painter. Her work is distinguished by the technique of sculpting off the canvas with clay to produce paintings in high relief.
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Biography
Born in New York City, Calef graduated from the Bronx High School of Science at age 15 and received a scholarship from the College of New Rochelle to study painting and sculpture. She exhibits widely in museums and galleries in solo and group shows. [1]
Calef has lived in Europe and Thailand and has traveled throughout the U.S., Mexico, Central America, Southeast Asia, India and Nepal.
She is the wife of author Jody Weiner.[2]
Work
The Oregon Literary Review describes Calef’s oil and mixed media paintings as presenting "people juxtaposed in ordinary situations while humorously addressing issues facing society."[3] Calef calls her three-dimensional paintings "Peoplescapes."[4]
In 1999 and 2000, Calef served as an artist in residence at the State of the World Forum[5] where she painted and drew religious and political world leaders including Mikhail Gorbachev and Queen Noor of Jordan.
Her painting "Modern Deluge" was shown in a 2004 national juried exhibition entitled "Perceptions of the President" at Koo’s Gallery in Long Beach, California. [6]
References
- ^ Carroll, Jerry, “Missing Out on Magic” (July 8, 1998), San Francisco Chronicle, p. D2 [1]
- ^ Jody Weiner, dedication to Prisoners of Truth, Council Oak Books, 2004. ISBN 978-1-57178-124-6
- ^ Oregon Literary Review Archived 19 December 2010 at WebCite
- ^ McPherson, Mary (September, 2002), North Beach Journal, p.8
- ^ worldforum.org Archived 19 December 2010 at WebCite
- ^ Schoenkopf, Rebecca (October 1, 2004) “Monkey Business: Koo’s bring you Potus. Fear him!”, Orange County Weekly [2]
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- American artists
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