"Art making is a form of alchemy, in a way, because you are trying…to make gold from nothing. When it works very well is when you manage to turn the ordinary into the extraordinary."
"Search and Destroy," detail (2005)
"Search and Destroy," detail, 2005
Handprinting on wall; 2 walls, 13 x 49 feet each. Installation view: The Drawing Center, New York. Photo by David Reynolds.
© Nancy Spero, courtesy the artist and Galerie Lelong, New York.
Handprinting on wall; 2 walls, 13 x 49 feet each. Installation view: The Drawing Center, New York. Photo by David Reynolds.
© Nancy Spero, courtesy the artist and Galerie Lelong, New York.
"I cannot re-draw the images I did long ago. I’m in another time. But what’s the difference? Death is death, and there’s my subject matter- the ever-present helicopter, from Vietnam to Iraq. There’s a terrible similarity running through all this stuff."
- Nancy Spero
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