NANCY
BEASLEY
Biography:
Nancy Beasley was born in Boulder, Colorado, and grew up in Dallas, Texas.
She started drawing and painting at a very young age and can
remember her
favorite Christmas gifts were paints, markers and paper. With a
background as multi-faceted and complex as the sources of her
inspiration,
Nancy holds a BA in Political Science from Texas A&M,
and earned an MBA from St. Thomas University. Essentially self-taught,
Nancy
spent ten years in studio critique classes at the Glassell
School of Art, part of the Museum of Fine Art, in Houston. Her personal
and
academic interests incorporate both art and science, including an
enthusiasm
for traveling through the small towns, mountains and deserts of Texas
and New
Mexico with her son, Zeke, and her two Papillion dogs. She
continues to
work and live in both Taos and Dallas.
About
her work:
Nancy's
current work is inspired by the fading small town architecture found in
the
Texas Panhandle and Northern New Mexico. Her palette is often
monochromatic and her style minimalist, not unlike artist Agnes Martin.
Nancy believes that artistic expression is the most elegant means
of
confronting and making sense of transitions, obstacles and
reinventions. Her
paintings are ways of articulating the emotions and explorations of
those
exquisite moments that can either define or confound one's human
experience.
Accordingly, her inspirations have been fading architecture, nature and
its transformations,
pregnancy and motherhood, illness and recovery, love and separation.
Each
painting is created individually, as a remembrance and beatification of
the
vision, process or experience that inspired it. Many of her works, such
as
the Facing a Fork in the Road series and Passing
Storm,
offer content specific to the progress of a journey: roads, rivers,
pathways
and movement from one condition to another.
In addition to her adoration of the rich natural beauty of the
Southwest, she
is also inspired by the feminine, represented in her landscapes as well
as the
continuing Women series. She hadn't painted in a year
when she
began the series, which represented a dramatic challenge in itself:
frightening
and invigorating. These paintings became perhaps her most symbolic
works,
exploring the gift of new life as an implacable mystery - something
that is at
once beautiful and joyful, yet bold and complex. She notes, "My work
presents the transition into motherhood as my own ultimate transition
and my most
glorious reinvention. I feel that my paintings are inseparable
from my
personal experiences, yet these are the awesome experiences of
transformation
that enlighten and inspire us all. I sincerely hope that these moments
I have
captured will delight my audience; essentially providing the
contentment and
satisfaction that I experience at the completion of each work."
Recognitions:
Nancy's
work can be found in numerous private and corporate collections
throughout the
United States. She is also represented by galleries in both Texas
and New
Mexico. Some of her corporate clients include: Baylor Hospital
and Dallas
Diagnostic Associates, Dallas, TX.