Alaska Biennial Artist Talks: Mandy Bernard and Ree Nancarrow
This event has ended. It was scheduled for 1/19/2023.
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Join artists Mandy Bernard and Ree Nancarrow as they discuss their work in the 2022 Alaska Biennial exhibition. Q&A follows. Free, RSVP via Facebook.
About the artists
Mandy Bernard (@mandybernardstudio) combines manipulated textiles and hand-tufted fiber sculptures to navigate themes of relation and personal dissonance. Her practice is based on repetitive processes—pattern and duplication are important aspects deriving from her foundation in printmaking. Her current work revisits personal interactions translated through textiles, hand-tufted fiber sculptures, and pattern. The differing textures and mediums in each piece suggest a dissonant exchange, while the final sculpture represents a conversation between two people, a question and an answer, a call and a response. Bernard lives and works in Homer, AK.
Ree Nancarrow grew up in Redfield, SD, and graduated from the University of Minnesota with a B.S. in Education in 1963. She lived near Denali National Park for 50 years and currently lives in Fairbanks, AK. Nancarrow has been a Denali National Park artist-in-residence and was awarded the Interior Alaska Mayor’s Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts in 2012, as well as a Rasmuson Individual Artists Grant in 2020. Her public artwork is on view at the U.S. Army’s Fort Wainwright Bassett Hospital in Fairbanks and the Denali National Park Eielson Visitor’s Center.