Nancy Manter

Nancy Manter is an American visual artist based on the East Coast. Her paintings, drawings and photographs of temporal works are inspired by physical processes and properties of the earth and capture qualities such as movement, disruption and ephemerality. Although generally abstract and rooted in formal aspects of picture-making, her translations of the shifting dynamics of weather and environment function as metaphors for human experience in a precarious world, suggesting themes regarding interdependence, memory as a vehicle for critique, and the fate of the planet (e.g., Stay Still #13, 2016). Critic Stephen Maine observed, Manter's work "expresses an attitude toward the world, predicated on a belief in the efficacy of images in conveying meaning. That worldview, it seems to me, is a hybrid of curiosity and caution. Manter is curious about conflict—in fact, she relies on conflict of various kinds to give rise to the drama, the pictorial momentum, in her work."

Manter's work belongs to the collections of institutions including the Whitney Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), British Museum, The Phillips Collection, and Smithsonian American Art Museum. She has exhibited at the Drawing Center, Brooklyn Museum, Boston Center for the Arts, Kentler International Drawing Space, Baker Museum and Missoula Art Museum, among other venues. She lives and works in Beacon, New York and Bass Harbor, Maine.