NANCY ANGERMEYER: PROFILE
A native of Wisconsin, Nancy Angermeyer received a Bachelor of Science in art education at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She taught elementary art in Spring Green, Wisconsin. After additional training in graphic design she ended up in advertising on Michigan Avenue in Chicago. At night and on saturdays she taught adult art classes at the Evanston Art Center. After four years in Chicago she moved in with her sister in Lexington, Kentucky and began a MFA in painting at the University of Kentucky. She discovered the photography of Ralph Eugene Meatyard and Clarence John Laughlin. She would drive around the countryside with her mannequins in the backseat taking photographs of them in picturesque Kentucky cemeteries or she would photograph herself in grassy fields, dry riverbeds and abondoned tobacco sheds. She used her own photographs to collage images to paint. Her paintings were surreal, large and colorful. However, within one year a life threatening illness led her on a different path to a life in a small wilderness cabin in northern Wisconsin. Not knowing how long she had to live she wanted to paint and be in nature until either her life or her money ran out. The money ran out.
As a painter she used her photography as a tool. Over the past ten years Nancy has used photography exclusively as the method to conceive her images. Having had only a few courses and workshops in photography most what she knows she has learned herself. Her silver gelatin prints are composed of several black and white negatives layered in the darkroom and then hand painted in oil. Digital technology came at the perfect time. The solar powered home she designed and built herself had a limited water supply and power. She misses the darkroom experience and the depth and tonality of silver gelatin prints, but the flexibility and convenience of the digital darkroom works well for her and suits her pictorial style. Her images must be good and capable of standing alone before she begins combining. The contrast of different often unrelated images makes the final image stronger and more provocative. She has been influenced by Man Ray, Magritte, and Jerry Uelsmann to name a few.
Painterly images are layered digitally with limited editions printed on archival rag paper. She operates a professional darkroom studio out of her home. Nancy plays the cello and lives on an island in the Gulf Islands, British Columbia. Represented by Douglas Udell in Vancouver, British Columbia Nancy has shown at numerous venues and is seeking wider representation.
Solo Exhibitions:
“Gallery at the Mac” Victoria, British Columbia, January, 2009
Galleons Lap Gallery, Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, March, 2007
Sunshine Coast Art Centre, Sechelt, British Columbia, July, 2006
Gallery Cafe, Saturna Island, British Columbia, August, 2006
Ferry Building Gallery, West Vancouver, British Columbia, 2000
McColl Exhibition, Vancouver, British Columbia, 1999
Vancouver East Cultural Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, 1983
Sunshine Coast Art Centre, Sechelt, British Columbia, Solo Exhibition, 1981
Selected Exhibitions:
Salt Spring Woodworks Gallery, Salt Spring, British Columbia, June, 2008
Art Spring Atelier Gallery, Salt Spring, British Columbia, April, 2008
Douglas Udell Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Spring Group Show 2008
Douglas Udell Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, “What will be?” February 2008
Galleons Lap Gallery, Salt Spring, BC, gallery artist, 2007-2008
Concordia University, Saint Paul, Minnesota, “New Digital”, September 2007
Fran Willis Gallery, gallery artist, Victoria, British Columbia, gallery artist, 2005-07
Ian Tan Gallery, gallery artist, Vancouver, British Columbia, gallery artist 2005
Aaron Ross Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, gallery artist 2003-2005
Published Room of One's Own, 2005
Gallery Rosa, Saturna Island, British Columbia, 1997-2006
Sunshine Coast Art Centre, Sechelt, British Columbia, 2004
Published Photo Techniques Magazine, 1999
Water Works Gallery, Friday Harbour, Washington, 1999/2000
Fran Willis Contemporary Art Gallery, Victoria, British Columbia, 1998
Fine Arts 97, Sooke, British Columbia, 1997-2000
“Images and Objects”, Vancouver, British Columbia 1983
“Erotica” Helen Pitt Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, 1982
First Annual BC Arts Festival, Kamloops, British Columbia, 1982
