Throughout the 1980s to mid 1990s, Nance’s abstract works were featured in shows, museums, and public spaces around the world. But by the late 1990s, Nance had begun to turn inward. She began to record images from her waking and dreaming lives in drawings on wood tablets, as a pictorial journal. The tablets, which ultimately grew to over 400 in number, incorporate both figures and symbols which, although intensely personal, are also universal: viewers are often surprised to find archetypal images that resonate with their own life experience. This site presents a sample of the wood tablets in two galleries.
(click image to enlarge, then click ‘X’ to return - when done with this gallery, click HEREfor more Tablets)
