| Nancy Wissemann-Widrig | ||
| Birth Date: 1929 |
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Artist Gallery |
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| Nancy Wissemann-Widrig, who lives on Long Island’s North Fork during the winter and in coastal Maine during the summer, has always found the motifs of her art near at hand. Using the fields, trees, and ponds of Long Island and the pines, granite, flowers and bleached fields and inlets of Maine not as specific rendering of particular places, but as metaphors for the passage of time and the pleasures and dangers of life, her pictures seek to capture fleeting moments. They also transform the ordinary by isolating it from the flow of events through expressive painting.
Wissemann-Widrig states: “A work of art should be an artist’s most sincere statement. Each painting I begin with a desire to make something satisfying and true. The subject matter of my paintings varies: I use whatever I find in daily experience. As I have found myself when passing-through or waiting-in neutral, institutional (and perhaps potentially “forbidding”) environments soothed and reassured by the presence of a truthful work of art, I offer similar balm to observers of my work, wherever they find it in the course of their daily lives.
‘Conversation’ was painted here in my studio on the eastern end of Long Island. The chair on the left is still in my studio. It is a yard sale “find”, a Victorian era copy of an earlier Italian design. The wicker chair on the right appears in several other paintings around that time with seated figures. I thought it looked as if the chairs were having a conversation, or people had recently had a conversation and left. Maybe they were discussing the Hopper print in the upper right, or whatever seems to be pinned to the wall at left which I can’t quite identify.”
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