American Art Collector
NANCY WORTHINGTON’S POWERFUL SOCIAL COMMENTARY ARTWORK, “LA FRONTERA (The Border)” juried into and featured into American Art Collector, Alcove Books, Berkeley, CA, 2009 Edition.
“La Frontera” depicts callous treatment of Mexican workers in the USA.The fence symbolizes conflicting attitudes toward immigration. Young female workers must submit to Gardasil vaccinations becoming Guinea pigs for drug manufacturers. The chained dog represents thinly veiled negative ethnic stereotypes. I create art which facilitates change through awareness for a more humane world.
CONTROL EXHIBITION at SOMArts
NANCY WORTHINGTON’S POWERFUL SOCIAL COMMENTARY ARTWORK
“THE POLICE STATE-PART I (You Have The Right To Remain Silent”)
will be exhibited in the CONTROL EXHIBITION at SOMArts Cultural Center.
This all-women show, presented by the Women’s Caucus for Art was juried by The Guerrilla Girls West.
In light of the arrest of Dr. Gates on July 16, 2009 at his home by Police Sgt. Crowley, and the escalation of this incident to national attention, “The Police State” created by Ms. Worthington in 1992 is extremely relevant in today’s world.
CONTROL
August 6 – 27, 2009
SOMArts Main Gallery, 934 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CA
Opening Reception, Thursday, August 6, 6-9 P.M.
Gallery Hours, Tuesday-Friday, 2-7 P.M., Saturday 12-5 P.M.
SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART
NANCY WORTHINGTON ARTWORK ACCEPTED INTO
SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART’S PERMAMENT COLLECTION
“Not Some Random Thoughts”, a book-art mixed-media double triptych work by Nancy Worthington, 2’h x 2′(h) x 8′(w) x 6″(d), © 1998. The work comprises both commentary and observations by the artist from 1980 to 1998 and is a sardonic and satirical view of everyday life.
MILLS COLLEGE ART MUSEUM
Four artworks by Nancy Worthington, M.F.A., were accepted into the permanent collection of the Mills College Art Museum in November 2008. The permanent collects benefits the public as well as art students at Mills College, who study the permanent collection as part of their academic experience.
“Subconscious Dualities”, a series of three framed limited edition hand-colored original lithographic prints, © 1976 by Nancy Worthington, and “Gateway to Hope” © 2007 a collaged limited edition print by Nancy Worthington were accepted into the collection.
BANNED AND RECOVERED
NANCY WORTHINGTON TO EXHIBIT “RED” IN BANNED AND RECOVERED–ARTISTS RESPOND TO CENSORSHIP
San Francisco Center for the Book
August 15 to November 26
“RED“© 2008 by Nancy Worthington, www.domjoy.com
Mixed-media interactive kinetic wall relief with sound
8 ft. (length) x 4ft (height) x 10ft(depth)
“RED“, an allegorical romp though Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s frightening tale Little Red Cap (better known as Little Red Riding Hood). In my artwork, RED, the themes of deception, disguise, fear, intrigue, sexism, predator vs. prey, victor vs. vanquished, and the theme of rescue are now transformed to the 21st Century 2008 political landscape. Little Red Riding Hood is now Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama becomes the duality of both the Wolf and the Woodsman and Bill Clinton is the Mother/Grandmother. Created specfically for this invitational exhibition, the artwork is constructed to look like an open book, hinged in the middle. Through the use of a series of brightly colored three-dimensional scenes containing playful objects and interactive games, I lead the viewer/participant through the revised narrative.
Banned & Recovered–artists respond to censorship
San Francisco Center for the Book
and the African American Museum and Library at Oakland
Hanna Regev, curator
San Francisco Center for the Book
August 15 to November 26
opening reception: Friday, August 15, 6–8pm
gallery hours: Mon–Fri, 10–5; Sat 12–4
300 De Haro Street, 16th Street entrance
San Francisco 415.565.0545 www.sfcb.org
CENSORED FROM BEIJING EXHIBIT
Worthington’s artwork “Gateway to Hope”, accepted into the International Women’s Artists Exhibiton, Her Presence in Colours VIII-Beijing 2008, April 11-25 at the China National Art Gallery, was censored by the China National Censorship Board .
On March 25, 2008 I received an e-mail from The Conservatory of Fine Arts, sponsors of the Beijing Exhibit that my artwork “Gateway to Hope” was censored from the exhibition. (The artwork was accepted in October 2007.)I created this work specifically for the exhibition which is entitled “Dream of Peace”. I was told that “Gateway to Hope” was rejected because of its political context. Works by other artists which contained political content (opposition to the Iraqi war, Palestinian-Israeli conflict) were left in the show. My belief is that “Gateway to Hope” was censored because it contained an image of the Statue of Liberty, which I used as a symbol of hope.
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
SANTA ROSA. CALIFORNIA
THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 2008
CHRIS SMITH
EYE OF THE CENSOR: Another local artist named Nancy favors a more political brand of expression.
Sebastopol’s Nancy Worthington can be pointedly provocative. But she insists the piece she submitted to a current international exhibit in Beijing was intended simply as an expression of hope for friendship between the United States and China.
Shortly before the show opened at the China National Art Gallery, an e-mail informed her that censors had banned her piece because of its “political context.”
To see the artwork, go to Site News at www.domjoy.com. Worthington suspects that what set off the censors was her image of the Statue of Liberty, not a symbol communist China wants on display.Worthington’s sense is that instead of becoming more open in response to the international pressure being heaped on them in advance of the Olympics, Chinese authorities “are going in the opposite direction.”
NANCY WORTHINGTON CHOSEN TO EXHIBIT ARTWORKS IN CHINA
Worthington will exhibit new artworks in Beijing China in 2008 in the International Women Artisit’s Exhibition — Her Presence in Colours VIII
NANCY WORTHINGTON TO EXHIBIT IN PARIS, FRANCE
Worthington to exhibit 3 new artworks from her latest series, “God Commanded”at the Espace Chalet-Victoria in Paris during the month of May 2007
Potentially Harmful: The Art of American Censorship
Potentially Harmful: The Art of American Censorship
at Georgia State University, January 10 — March 10, 2006
Georgia State University announces the exhibition Potentially Harmful: The Art of American Censorship scheduled for early 2006 in the Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design Gallery.
Featured artists: Dread Scott, Robert Mapplethorpe, Sue Coe, Lynda Benglis, Andres Serrano, Karen Finley, Alma Lopez, John Trobaugh, John Jota Leaos, Benita Carr, Anita Steckel, Renee Cox, Gayla Lemke, Marilyn Zimmerman, John Sims, The Critical Art Ensemble, Eric Fischl, Tom Forsythe, Nancy Worthington, David Avalos, Scott Kessler, Louis Hock and Elizabeth Sisco.
A 150-page catalogue will document the exhibition, with essays by Richard Meyer, Svetlana Mintcheva, Andrew Cohen, Susan Richmond, Jon Lewis, Faith Wilding and Michael Landau with Lisa Kincheloe. “Moving beyond the shock factor of provocative art, we present art and ideas that may be viewed as controversial while encouraging an open dialogue about the vital role of freedom in creative expression,” says exhibition curator and gallery director Cathy Byrd.
The project is funded by a major grant from The Andrew Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts with considerable local support from the Atlanta Bureau of Cultural Affairs, and the Georgia State University College of Arts and Sciences Visiting Artists and Scholars Fund, the College of Law, the Ethics Center, Women’s Studies, African American Studies, the Department of Communications and additional private donors.
Contact: Cathy Byrd at cathybyrd@gsu.edu / 404.651.0489 /www.gsu.edu/artgallery
Digital images available on request.
NYT article French Center Creates a Controversy By DEAN E. MURPHY
A CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE?
This short film entitled “A Conspiracy of Silence?” about Nancy Worthington is an intimate look into her life and works, in a candid and intimate interview filmed by Dan Villava.