| Lisa Nankivil | |
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| Born | 1958 Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| Nationality | American |
| Field | Painting, Printmaking, Monotyping |
| Training | Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) |
| Movement | Contemporary art, Abstract art |
| Influenced by | Eva Hesse, Joan Mitchell, Mark Rothko |
| Awards | 2004 Jerome Foundation Fellowship 2011 Artist Initiative Grant, Minnesota State Arts Board |
Lisa Nankivil (born 1958, Minneapolis, Minn.) is a contemporary American painter and printmaker.
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Nankivil trained with American artist Kinji Akagawa at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD), where she earned a BFA degree in painting in 1995.
Nakivil is best known for her non-representational striped-format oil paintings and monotypes. Though her work shares formal qualities with the modernist tradition of European and American abstraction, her paintings typically feature color schemes, brushwork, and techniques that are based on long-established painterly traditions.[1]
According to art historian William Peterson,[2] the striped format of Nankivil’s paintings evolved while she was concentrating on certain figure-ground relationships in her work. “I was searching for ways to make the background as essential as the image,” she says. “I began to explore qualities such as motion, ascendance, and hierarchy through painted stripes, and eventually the image fell away leaving me to navigate the implications of the vertical and the horizontal by painting only the orientations with stripes.” A phrase in the art writings of John Berger—“Home is where the vertical meets the horizontal”—helped her as she began to explore the physical, psychological, and spiritual dimensions of her discovery. “To me,” she says, “this phrase refers to a sense of spiritual well being: finding ground in which to prosper.”[3]
Nankivil is an artist-member of the Traffic Zone Center for Visual Art, a prominent artist cooperative established in 1993 in the historic Warehouse District of downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she maintains her principal studio and private press.[4]
In 2004, Nankivil was awarded the Jerome Foundation Fellowship (New York City & St. Paul).[5] In 2011, Nankivil received an Artist Initiative Grant in Visual Arts from the Minnesota State Arts Board (St. Paul), with funding provided by Minnesota's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.[6]
Nankivil's paintings and prints are exhibited nationally and internationally and are found in numerous public and private collections, including the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Ariz.; Borusan Contemporary Museum, Istanbul, Turkey [7]; Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis; U.S. State Department, Washington, D.C.; William J. Clinton Foundation, New York and Little Rock, Arkansas; SURDNA Foundation, New York; General Mills, Golden Valley, Minn.; Valspar, Minneapolis; Harris Private Bank, Chicago, Winston & Strawn LLP, Geneva, Switzerland, and others.
Nankivil is represented by Spanierman Modern, New York; Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago; William Shearburn Gallery, St. Louis; and Highpoint Editions, Minneapolis. Her monotypes are available at Marlborough Gallery, New York.