Artist Nancy Charak. Photo courtesy of Jayson Lawfer, The Nevica Project.
I am a mark-maker, much of my work is about mark-making. The marks relate to each other in degrees of tension, proximity, distance, stillness, absence, presence. The marks create spaces, surfaces and edges that become interconnected, separated, conflicted.
My purpose as an artist is to captivate you for as long as I can hold your attention.
Nancy Charak makes paintings and drawings in a historic landmark warehouse in Tucson, where she settled from Chicago. Nancy has extended her gallery representation and geographic reach to the west with new canvases at Space Gallery in Denver, watercolors exhibited at Conrad Wilde Gallery in Tucson and to Cerbera Gallery in Kansas City.
A two person show at Chicago State University President’s Gallery, “What’s Abstract,” with Julian Williams, curated by Joyce Owens. Her painting, The Dreamer and the Dream, was in the Evanston+Vicinity Show 2010 Biennial. Another painting, Rainbows End, was in the Art Loop Open. Nancy had a solo exhibit at Woman Made Gallery of Chicago and juried their show “Drawing on Experience.” Nancy has also had two solo exhibitions: “Resonance,” at the University Center Gallery of the University of Montana in Missoula and “Marks in Time and Space” at the Fred P. Giles Gallery of Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Kentucky. Her work can be seen in Tucson (by appointment), Denver (Space Gallery), Kansas City (Cerbera Gallery) and Chicago (The Nevica Project), please come on by!
Symbiosis, Contemporary Artists of Tucson group exhibit, Steinfeld Art Warehouse, Tucson, AZ, July 2017.
Rodeo Days Pop-Up Exhibit, Contemporary Artists of Tucson group exhibit, Plaza Palomino, Tucson, AZ, February 2016.
Marks in Time Preview, Cornelia Arts Building, Chicago, with Marian Carow & Sharon Swidler, Nov 2009.
Open Studio Visit, from Hyde Part Art Center, Cornelia Arts Building, June 2009.
Art on the Move Studio Visit, Art Institute of Chicago, Cornelia Arts Building, Apr 2008.
Studio visit, West Suburban Auxiliary of Museum of Contemporary Art with artists Emily Roynesdal & Tiffany Stronsky, May 2007.
Researcher and study group leader for “Women Abstract Expressionists,” “Greatest Artist Ever,” and “Art and Evil” at The University of Arizona, Continuing and Professional Education, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Fall 2014, Spring 2015 and Spring 2016, respectively.
Nancy is also past member and past affiliate of the ARC Gallery and Educational Foundation, of Chicago, Illinois, one of the oldest womens’ art cooperatives in the country.
Exhibition and commission inquiries welcome.
Nancy Charak is always happy to exhibit her work and welcomes visits to her studio. All inquiries from exhibitors, college and university spaces, non-profits and collectives, galleries, and museums, private and corporate collectors are welcome.
Contact Nancy at 312/451-4268 or via the contact form for an appointment.