— Nancy Davidson

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 April 3, 2015

Nancy Davidson: Cowgirl

Text by Jessica Brier, Renee M. Laegreid, Leisl Carr-Childers
Published by Daylight
Distributed by D.A.P. | Distributed Art Publishers

In her sculpture and installation works, New York-based artist Nancy Davidson (born 1943), recipient of a 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship, celebrates and satirizes popular culture. A central example is the American cowgirl. This publication combines archival cowgirl photographs with images of Davidson's sculptures, photographs of photographs and installations.

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