Participating Artists

Nancy Kearing

Biography / Artist Statement

Nancy Hull Kearing (1930-2022) produced mostly large scale oil and acrylic paintings in the Abstract Expressionist style of the Modernist Era. Kearing studied under Josef Albers at Yale University where she was greatly influenced by Albers’ theory of the interaction of color, large mural artwork, and the exploration of a square. Kearing followed in the footsteps of revolutionary artists like Kandinsky using music as her primary inspiration. Kearing’s work gravitates between color field abstraction to using rectilinear forms in combination with emotive coloration and a dynamic sense of rhythm and composition. Kearing studied with other notable and influential AbEx artists at the Art Student’s League in New York including Richard Pousette-Dart, Leo Manzo and Bruce Dorfman. Kearing worked with I.M. Pei and Partners, a world class architectural firm where she worked on many projects including the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. and established her own interior design firm.