NANCY LORENZ

Nancy Lorenz is an abstract painter in New York City whose work is sensual, exploratory, tactile and vibrant. She incorporates traditional craft techniques and luxurious materials such a mother-of-pearl, mirror, lacquer, and gold and silver leaf to create fine and decorative works of art. Roberta Smith has noted: “Operating in the gap between painting and the decorative arts, Ms. Lorenz’s latest efforts add to the history of modernist abstraction by way of seeming gestural marks and lines fashioned from mother-of pearl inlaid in surfaces of silver, white gold or palladium.”

Lorenz is a 1998 recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2018, a mid-career survey her work was exhibited by the San Diego Museum of Art in California. Private and public commissions include Chanel, Dior, and Tiffany & Co. stores worldwide, and collaborations with celebrated designers including Peter Marino, Michael Smith, and William Sofield.

Lorenz is represented by Gavlak Gallery, PDX Contemporary Art, and R and Company.