Scripps College Professor Nancy Macko’s survey show, “Hive Universe,” on view from December 15 through February 4, is the featured exhibition at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery located in the Barnsdall Art Park. The opening reception is on Sunday, December 17, from 2-5pm.
“Hive Universe: The Art of Nancy Macko, 1994-2006,” is part of the The Feminist Art Project, a national initiative celebrating the Feminist Art Movement and its impact on art history and contemporary artists.
The exhibition includes more than 60 works of various media by Macko, graphic and digital artist, who has taught at Scripps College since 1986.
“Less than one percent of women artists are ever awarded survey shows,” says Macko. “This is the most extensive exhibition of my work to date.”
Macko’s work explores her interests in nature, mathematics, and the connections between nature and technology. The artist’s visual narrative of the lost history of the ancient bee priestesses—a matriarchal culture that she has mythologized—evokes aspects of utopia, feminism, and spirituality.
“Conceptually my work finds its greatest resonance with feminist utopian novels that challenge basic assumptions about power between the genders and imagine women-centered worlds,” Macko explains.
Nancy Macko is a professor of art; director, Digital Art Program; and chair, Gender and Women’s Studies at Scripps College.
In the spring, Professor Macko will teach “Intermediate Web Design,” “Moving Between Media,” and “Feminist Concepts and Strategies in Studio Art and Media Studies,” a seminar that analyzes work by feminist women artists in fine art and the media. Macko says her goal in the seminar is to give the students “a sense of the historical legacy as they move into the future.”
Macko will be included in the gallery speaker series “Conversations with the Artists,” on Friday, January 5, 2007, at 7:30 p.m. For more information about the exhibition call (323) 644-6269.