Nancy Goldring
NANCY GOLDRING is an artist living in New York. A founding member of SITE, Inc. an experimental architectural group in the seventies; she has received two Fulbright grants, one to Italy and another to Southeast Asia. A professor at Montclair State University, her most recent exhibitions include Galleria Martini Ronchetti in Genoa and the Architectural Association of Rome.
Surviving Logic, on view at a83 Gallery, introduces the work of architecture scholar Mark West in an impressive survey of his drawings, collage-drawing, and paintings. Retired from a long teaching career, West has settled in Montreal where he devotes all his energy to drawing.
February 2015Critics Page
"PUTTING YOURSELF IN A PLACE WHERE GRACE CAN FLOW TO YOU" Nancy Goldring on Robert Lax
“One of the great original voices of our times … a pilgrim in search of beautiful innocence, writing lovingly, finding it simply, in his own way,” Jack Kerouac said of American poet Robert Lax (1915 – 2000). Lax lived on the Greek island of Patmos much of his life, writing small crystalline poems that recall the formal severity and emotional richness of his friends Thomas Merton and Ad Reinhardt.
Leo Steinberg was a great writer. His writings will endure as long as readers still exist who cherish art and writing as much as he did.
