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Nancy Spero

Born – Cleveland, USA 1926

Nancy Spero trained at the Art Institute of Chicago before attending the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1949-50. After living in the USA, Greece and Italy she moved to Paris, France in 1959, where she had her first solo exhibition in 1962. Spero returned to the USA in 1964. Actively opposed to the Vietnam War, her work began increasingly to document her social and political concerns. From 1960 to 1972 she worked on the Codex Artaud series, a cycle of thirty-four drawings on paper scrolls. The preoccupation of this and other key works is the abuse and torture of women in domestic life as well as in the wider political sphere, such as in work and war. Spero uses cut-and-pasted scraps of paper, fragments of typewritten script and disembodied parts of the female figure to reference women throughout history. Her obsessive documentary style leaves space for viewers to draw their own conclusions. In 1971 she helped to found AIR, the first co-operative gallery for women in New York. In 1978, Spero introduced a stamping technique into her drawings and she has made extensive use of this in her work since then. She lives and works in New York.

Masterpieces:

• The Torture of Women
• Marlene, Lilith, Sky, Goddess

Text: The A-Z of Art, Nicola Hodge and Libby Anson.

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