January 2023
Nancy Eastman / Boulder, CO 80301
303-720-1450 / eastman@artoftheland.com / NancyEastmanArtoftheLand.com
Artist Statement – Colorado is an intimate story of the mountains and plains. As a second-generation native Coloradoan, residing here for more than half a century, I have witnessed Colorado’s evolving suburban landscape, and changing agricultural, ranching and rural identities. I am sensitive to the variations of my surroundings, interpreting the forces that affect a particular place.
I work with the disturbing results of the loss of cultural and indigenous knowledge. Confronting that loss of tradition and community values moves me toward a deeper relationship with my environment. My art reflects my awareness as an observer and participant. I interpret local environments and materials, both natural and manmade for site-specific art.
I create two and three-dimensional works from observations and memory of the landscape. The land’s subtleties, in both near and distant views, reflect our past human presence. As an artist, I want to involve the viewer in the aesthetics of our common heritage, and create a link between the community’s people, their landscape, agriculture, and history.
Exhibitions
2023 Lost and Found, The Collective, City of Lafayette, CO
2023 Industrial R Gallery, Boulder, CO
2022 Big Art Show, The Collective, City of Lafayette, CO
2022 39th Annual All Colorado Show, Curtis Art Center, Greenwood Village, CO
2022-23 Artist in Residence, Firehouse Art Center, Longmont, CO
2022 Solo Exhibition, Landscape Abstracts, Nancy Eastman, Mercury Framing Gallery, Boulder, CO
2022 Art of the State, Arvada Arts and Humanities Center, Arvada, CO
2022 Off the Shelf: Contemporary Book Arts of Colorado Greg Allicar Museum of Arts at C.S.U., Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO
2021 38th Annual All Colorado Show, Curtis Art Center, Greenwood Village, CO
2021 Trees and Flowers, R Gallery, Boulder, CO
2021 37th All Colorado, Depot Art Gallery, Littleton, CO
2021 Why Not Niwot, Niwot CO
2021 National Fine Art Show, Lincoln Gallery, Loveland CO
2020 37th Annual All Colorado Show, 3rd Place, Curtis Arts Center, Greenwood Village, CO
2019 36th Annual All Colorado Show, Curtis Arts Center, Greenwood Village, CO
2019 Sheets, A National Exhibition of Paper Arts, D’Art Center, Norfolk, VA
2019 Art of the State, Arvada for the Art and Humanities Center, CO
2018 Narrative threads, Carbondale Arts, Carbondale, CO
Private Collections
2022 The Ranch—Niwot, CO
2022 Garden—Arvada, CO
2022 West Being What it is—Ft. Collins, CO
2022 Street Lights—Denver, CO
2022 Squares—Denver, CO
2022 November—Denver, CO
2022 Tree Landscape—Denver, CO
2022 Urban—Longmont, CO
2022 Bookbinding—Ithaca, New York
2021 Japanese Garden—Atlanta, Georgia
2019 Desert—Denver, CO
2019 City—Boulder, CO
2008 High Plains Spirit—Denver, CO
2008 Sage—Norwood, CO
2007 Saguaro Cactus—Denver, CO
Publications
ShoutoutColorado.Com November 2022
‘The Bigger Picture’ by Bethany Adams, The Cottage Journal, Winter 2020
‘Nancy Eastman’s Landscape Art Reflects Natural Processes’ by Barbralu Cohen, Colorado Green, Jan/Feb 2010
‘Making a Winter Wonderland’ by Michael Whiteman-Jones, Boulder County Home & Garden, Winter 2010
‘Art as Habitat’ by Laura Prindiville, Zone 4, Fall 2009
‘Eastman’s Art Featured’, Colorado Green, May-June 2009
‘Lessons of Habitat—Nancy Eastman’s Sagebrush Habitat’ by Terray Sylvester, High Country News, March 2009
‘Bound to Succeed—Nancy Eastman turns bookmaking into an art form’, Rocky Mountain News, 1994
Lectures/Interviews
2010 Guest Lecturer—Women in Architecture, 8x8 Environmental Art
2009 ‘Art and Ecology’—Salem Communications, Colorado Springs, CO
2009 ‘Art and Ecology’—Merritt Madness, Merritt Methodist Church, Denver, CO
Academic Work
University of Iowa, Graduate School of Art and Art History in Studio Art, 1995-1996
Denver Metropolitan State College, School of Art in Sculpture, 1975
Colorado State University, Bachelor of Fine Arts, 1969