Nan Hoover

Nan Hoover was a DutchAmericanexpatriate artist who is known for her pioneering work in video art, photography and performance art. She spent almost four decades living and working in the Netherlands. She also used the mediums of drawing, painting, photography and film and created art objects and sculptures. One of the main themes of her art was light and motion. The rigorous, minimalist handling of her means as well as the intense concentration with which she performed within spaces of light and shadow are the most salient characteristics of her artistic work.

Hoover was born in Bay Shore, New York as Nancy Dodge Browne and died in Berlin June 9, 2008 as Nancy HeftyBrowne. Early on, Hoover was committed to becoming an artist. The choice between dance and the visual arts was decided in favour of painting and sculpture, mediums that allowed her an independent creative exploration. Studies at the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington D.C. from 19501601601955 were followed by exhibitions of her sculptures, paintings and drawings, first in Washington and later in New York City. Her earliest dated works used expressive strokes, concentrated on individual figures with minimal background information and were largely executed in earthen tones. Her interest in the human body and human psychology was too great to embrace an abstract expressionist style. Sometimes the figures would display physical abnormalities andor be seen from unusual perspectives that indicated vulnerable sociopsychological or emotional states and thus contributed to the

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