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Nancy Webber

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Favorite Medium: art photography
Statement: My work is concerned with ways of seeing, such as Oscar Wilde expressed in his essay, ""On the Decay of Lying.""Paradox though it may seem-and paradoxes are always dangerous things-it is nonetheless true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life... and it has always been so. Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the arts that had influenced us.The excitement for me is the aliveness of the art/life relationship, being alert to chance meetings and observations. My background as a painter and teacher of art, whereby I have always been looking at art works, has supplied me with a memory bank of art history which I draw upon for my own ""recognition"" and art work recycling art history.According to curator Josine Ianco-Starrel, ""Nancy Webber knows art history and she knows faces. She combines the two in ways that provoke us into considering the possibility of reincarnation. We have seen these faces before in Rubens, Vermeer, Durer, Da Vinci or El Greco, but they have stepped out of those paintings to walk the streets of twentieth and twenty-first century cities. She captures them and shows them to us side-by-side with their former selves-resemblances that are so uncanny, so unexpectedly astonishing, that they propel us into another dimension. She blends a keen eye, a love of art in the touch of theatre into these strangely compelling photographs.""
Bibliography: New York Times, October 1998, Los Angeles Times (William Wilson Review 1998) Publications in Argentina, Finland, Greece, Sweden and South Africa, Mills Quarterly, Spring, 1997 ""Camera at Work,"" LIFE Magazine, July 1996; publications in Australia, Austria,Italy, Portugal, Hungary, The Netherlands 1996 ""No Oil Painting,"" Independent, Saturday Magazine, October 25, London, UK

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San Pedro, California
United States
nancywebber@dslextreme.com
Phone: (310) 833-5831
Fax: (310) 833-5831

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Awards: 2003 Public Art Grant, Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles, for interior of Harbor Animal Services Center, San Pedro, California -- May 2006 The J. Paul Getty Trust Fund for The Visual Arts Fellowship in Photography, 1991-1992 Visual Art Award for the Metro Blue Line, Photo mural with Mayde Herberg, LACTAC, Willow Street Station, Long Beach, California Fulbright-Hayes Seminar in Morocco and Senegal: Faces of Islam in Africa' 99 and Seminar in Indonesia Coleman Contemporary Issues of a Developing Nation,94 summers Seminar in Brazil for Community College Teachers, USC and US Government-83
Teaching Experience: 2001-1965 Professor of Art, Los Angeles Harbor College, Wilmington, California 2003-2004 Professor of Film Appreciation 1997 Professor of Contemporary Film, Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, California

Education

Degree: MFA
Institution: Mills College, Oakland, CA
Grad Year: 1962

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