Nancy Agati
Monoliti I_ 4
Sculptural assemblage - drift wood, sea glass, iron ore rock mounted to cement base
7.5" x 6" x 5.5"
About Nancy Agati
Nancy Agati’s work addresses transformations and patterns in nature through physical investigations of materials. Her multidisciplinary work includes; works on paper, sculpture, textile, site-specific installation, and public art. Agati holds a BFA from Alfred University, School of Art & Design, NY, and an MFA from The University of the Arts, Philadelphia. She has exhibited her work widely throughout Philadelphia and nationally including exhibitions at the Philadelphia Art Alliance, Hillyer Art Space, Washington, DC, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, NY, The Calandra Italian American Institute, NY, Crane Arts Building, Philadelphia, and Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia.
Several exhibitions have allowed for experimentation with video, public participatory art, ephemeral works, and augmented reality. Nancy has been a recurring participant with Art in the Open, Philadelphia, where, in 2014, she conducted a community carving event entitled Churn Ripple Flow along the Schuylkill River. A similar project took place in 2015 on the Hudson Bay which culminated in the construction of the sculpture Ripple Effect at the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art on Staten Island. The movement of water has been a recurring subject of Agati’s work. Her essay, entitled Noticing Water, was published by Cleaver Literary Magazine in 2014.
Agati has been a recipient of a Windows of Opportunity Award from the Leeway Foundation and has been awarded artist residencies at the Santa Fe Art Institute, New Mexico, Lo Studio dei Nipoti, Calabria, Italy, and Main & Station, Nova Scotia. Her time spent in Southern Italy initiated several bodies of work, including Portico Series, Ottanta Sette, and Francesca Series. Three works from the Portico Series are included in the permanent collection at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. In 2014, as a Hemera Foundation Tending Space Fellow, Agati began investigating the intersection of mindfulness meditation as it relates to her art making process.