Nancy Carman

1950Born Tucson, Arizona

EDUCATION

—Coursework, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California

1972BA University of California Davis, Davis, California

1976 MFA University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

PRIMARY WORK EXPERIENCE

1976—Studio Artist

BIOGRAPHY

Nancy Carman is known for Surrealistic figurative hand-built sculptures and tiles using low fired clays. Surfaces vary from highly finished sculptures including a simplified asexual human and graphic element and earlier faceted unglazed objects. The figures that appear in Carman's work often appears stark and lacking gender identification. Surfaces are developed using various glazing techniques. Often Carmen’s compositions are narrative.

Public Collections

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC

Bibliography

Bell, Michael S. “Nancy Carman: A Catalog.” Philadelphia, PA: Helen Druitt Gallery, 1985.

Clark, Garth. American Ceramics 1876 to the Present. New York, NY: Abbeville Press, 1987.

Gunter, Veronika Alice. 500 Figures in Clay: Ceramic Artists Celebrate the Human Form. New York, NY: Sterling Publishing, 2004.

Heller, Jules, and Nancy G. Heller. North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. New York, NY: Routledge Press, 1997.

Levin, Elaine. The History of American Ceramics: From Pipkins and Bean Pots to Contemporary Forms, 1607 to the Present. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1988.

Southern Highland Craft Guild