Artist Nancy Kravetz, who works out of her North Central home studio, will celebrate her 70-year career at a new exhibit opening in April (photo courtesy of the Kravetz family).
With a career spanning seven decades, North Central’s Nancy Kravetz will open her newest exhibition, “Nancy Kravetz: Color Forms the Day,” on April 3 at the ArtReach Space gallery inside Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts.
Kravetz has continually explored how form and color can be organized to create meaning. Her early training focused on representational painting, beginning with landscapes and seascapes inspired by her New England upbringing. She refined her technical skills through formal study at the Sargent School of Painting, the Prize Program at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and Simmons College.
In 1969, Kravetz’s artistic journey shifted decisively toward abstraction after meeting and working with the late Arizona-based artist Dorothy Fratt. This encounter led to a sustained exploration of nonrepresentational form, resulting in a prolific body of paintings and collages.
The collages in this exhibition draw inspiration from the rolling tide along a beach, the discovery of unusual handmade papers and the quiet wonder of a full moon or a star-filled night sky. These moments, rooted in observation and memory, continue to shape her work today in her Phoenix studio.
A public reception for “Nancy Kravetz: Color Forms the Day” will be held on Wednesday, April 15, at 5 p.m. Visitors can also see the exhibition in the ArtReach gallery from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. on Sundays from April 3 through June 14. The center is closed on Mondays. For more information, visit www.scottsdalearts.org.
