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Nancy Pantirer is an artist who primarily creates large-scale abstract paintings, establishing what she describes as an ongoing, thought-provoking dialogue between order and randomness.
Based in New York City, Pantirer continuously explores painting techniques, employing highly chromatic washes, drips, splashes, and swipes of color to study light and movement. She also integrates minimalist borders and hard-edge geometric forms into her work. Pantirer frequently experiments with natural processes, such as using rain-soaked paper and dyeing pieces with coffee and cinnamon. As she explains, each sheet of rain-soaked paper documents time, while the continuous layering, peeling, and re-layering on the canvas blurs any linear perception of time's passage.
Like many great artists, Pantirer adapts her techniques, visions, and practices in response to personal and societal shifts, such as becoming a grandmother or exploring the isolation of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Her extensive list of solo exhibitions is impressive but not unexpected, given the captivating nature of her work. Venues include The Philadelphia Museum of Jewish Art, George Segal Gallery at Montclair State University, Carter Burden Gallery in Manhattan, the Hankyu Gallery in Osaka, Japan; and the Joseloff Gallery at the University of Hartford.