
Spotlight Artist
Nancy Ivanhoe
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Artist Statement
My drawings explore the choreography of line, the way it performs
as it passes through space and transforms into a drawn memory.
I begin with delicate copper wires that I knot and torque into
suspended dimensional shapes. I draw the sequence of their
shadows as I move their suspended forms across a space or alter
the direction of cast light. As in a dance, they entwine, stretch,
contract, and release. Each drawn line echoes the immediate past
and links the first mark to the last. These marks accumulate to
form palimpsests of movement. Their overlapping sequence is an
assemblage of energy in transit from one form into another.
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