Artist Talk: Nancy Fritz

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I am a figurative painter and a long-time member of ARC Gallery, a woman-run collective gallery in Chicago. I am fascinated by color and form — but also by the stories paintings can suggest.  In my most recent series of paintings, I am less interested in unique identities — and more interested in how a figure-shaped splotch of color communicates something that we all understand — a semiotic language available to us because we are human. The figures in these latest paintings sit/dance together — sometimes uncomfortably. But they are not alone. I nestle these human-ish shapes within a background of bird, tree, and plant-ish shapes — some of which seem on fire, some are perhaps dying. As in the greater world, there is a darkness to some of these images; but the figures in them nevertheless are connected to each other. They exist within a community, and an ecosystem — they are not without hope.