We are thrilled to have Nancy Corbin in the gallery during the entire month of March. Throughout the month, we will offer an artist’s talk, a round table discussion, and two receptions. Nancy’s show, “Altogether,” utilizes abstracted figures, color, and texture in multiple layers to create a vision of the artist’s thoughts and dreams, informed by historical ties and current events. “Altogether” includes many new works and a few favorites from past years.
Nancy Corbin
”Using abstracted figures, color and texture in multiple layers, my imagery is a conjuring of my thoughts and dreams informed by historical ties and current events.
Nancy CorbinFeatured Artist
Meet Nancy Corbin
Nancy Corbin was born in Ohio and moved to Spartanburg, South Carolina, in 1976 with her husband Mike as they started a family, and each began budding careers in artistic fields. Both became teachers, though they continued to pursue their personal interests. Mike became a photographer while Nancy cultivated her love for painting.
As a young girl, Nancy studied art at the Toledo Museum of Art Saturday School. She continued her studies in visual art, arts education, and arts administration at the University of Cincinnati (BFA), the University of South Carolina (MA), New York University (Certificate of Arts Administration), Banff School for Fine Arts, Savannah College of Art and Design, The Hemlock Studio, Arrowmont School for Art and Craft, Wild Acres Retreat, The Creativity Workshop, and Converse University.
After teaching in Spartanburg County School District Seven for 14 years, Nancy joined the Spartanburg Day School visual arts faculty in 1991. She taught students a range of subjects from Studio Art to Art History at introductory levels through Advanced Placement. In 1999, she became the first Mildred Harrison Dent Fine Arts Center Coordinator. While at SDS, she was awarded the Mildred Harrison Dent Endowed Chair, an honor she held until she moved on at the conclusion of 27 years at the school.
Additional honors during her time at SDS include the permanent collection being named in her honor, being awarded the Larrabee Endowed Chair, and the future Valerie M. Barnet Theatre will house the Nancy Corbin lobby and gallery.
Her teaching career was greatly enriched by the dozens of art study tours that Nancy led for her students in NYC, Washington D.C., San Francisco, Italy, France, Greece, Turkey, Switzerland, England, Cuba, and Spain. She has served for 12 years as a reader of Advanced Placement Studio Art exams for the Educational Testing Service and The College Board.
Since leaving SDS, Nancy spends her time in her studio at Mayfair Art Studios preparing for upcoming exhibits. Watercolor and collage are important in her process. Smaller works on paper often lead to large works in acrylic. Color and figurative abstraction in layered compositions are responses to current events and historical ties.