Nancy Petry RCA

Light, energy abstracted from material forms in nature. Use all means – dance, photography, film, live action, open-air experiences.

Do some experiments with Lia and Eddie in Italy and London.

[NP, 1977]

In Chinese the word for “crisis” is the same as “opportunity.”

Ruth Montgomery, Here and Hereafter

Aquamorphose, Venezia, 1977

L’image provoquée series [Nancy Petry / Lia Rondelli / Eddie Allen]

Metamorphose, Santa Maria del Giglio, Venice, 1977

L’image provoquée series [Nancy Petry / Lia Rondelli / Eddie Allen]

Wheat Field, Rosero, Italy, 1977

[Nancy Petry / Lia Rondelli / Eddie Allen]

Colour is our language,

Light is our language,

Art is our language.

[NP/LR, 1981]

Metamorphose, Pavements, Venice, 1978

L’image provoquée series [Petry/Rondelli/Allen]

Shadow Figure, London, 1978

Inert / Transmutable series [Petry/Rondelli/Allen]

Abstract Physical Abstract

Interaction of viewed and experienced space.

Interaction of colour abstraction and physical presence, imagined space and real space. A synthesis of movement and light. An analogy emerges.

[NP and Lia Rondelli, 1978]

The shadow figure in dreams and myths appears of the same sex as that of the dreamer.

Carl Jung

Running – Covent Garden, London, 1978

Inert / Transmutable series [Petry/Rondelli/Allen]

The dynamism of the city undergoing endless transformations suggested a project for two bodies in movement. Two artists ran around the perimeter of a building site, one city block, approximately 300 metres in opposite directions crossing each other at different points. An ancient rite in a technological environment, a photograpic document of a site in the city of London which will disappear and become something else. [NP/LR, 1978]

Auto-portrait dans la neige, Montreal, 1981

[Petry/Storm]

Brucciare le Tappe, London, 1984

[Petry/Rondelli]

On top of Primros Hill there is a black mound of ashes an harcoal left from a Guy Fawkes bonfire. Stretch a long piece of paper across it, draw on it, burn it, stop the fire with a brushful of paint. The painter must paint the flames at the location, but the brush catches on fire and ignites teh painting. Fire brings change as well as destruction. Use fire as a mutation into something else—spiritual change and rebirth—the phoenix. [NP/LR, 1984]

On the Wind: May Day to May Day. London Biennale, Montréal, 2006.

[Nancy Petry / Joyce Ryckman]

On May first, the opening day of the London Biennale 2006, artists unfurled flags and banners over ridges around the world: Hong Kong, Sydney, Argentina, London (Tower Bridge), New York (Brooklyn Bridge), Paris (Pont Neuf) and Montréal (Pont Jacques Cartier).