Lisa Nankivil

Nankivil grew up in Winona, Minnesota, an historic Mississippi River town located in the bluff country of southwest Minnesota, where her family owned Sahaptin Farm, an Appaloosa horse breeding operation.Porter, Cynthya. "When the Triple Crown Buzz Came to Winona." Winona Post (June 29, 2008), illus. [http://www.winonapost.com/stock/functions/VDG_Pub/searchdetail.php?Page_next_page=1&choice=25485&searchtext=&from=&to=&author=&column=&issue=1&sort=title&arrange=ASC] Nankivil was herself a junior champion rider."113 Horses Compete at Sahaptin Farms." Winona Daily News (July 1, 1973): 19. [https://newspaperarchive.com/winona-daily-news/1973-07-01/page-19]

Upon graduating high school, Nankivil moved to San Francisco where she studied graphic design and worked for several years as an independent art director in the film and advertising industries. She later returned to college to study painting and printmaking at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. Nankivil continued her studio art training at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, where she earned a BFA degree in painting in 1995.

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Nankivil is best known for her non-representational striped-format oil paintings and abstract monoprints. Though her work shares formal qualities with the modernist innovations of European and American abstraction, her paintings typically feature color schemes, brushwork, and techniques based on long-established painterly traditions.Briggs, P: "Lisa Nankivil". McCormick Gallery, 2005.

According to art historian William Peterson,William Peterson is an art historian, critic, and editor. From the mid-1970s to the early 1990s he was the editor and publisher of Artspace magazine, a critical journal of contemporary art published in Albuquerque, New Mexico and later Los Angeles. the striped format of Nankivil's paintings evolved while she was concentrating on certain figure-ground relationships in her work. “I was searching for ways to make the background as essential as the image,” she says. “I began to explore qualities such as motion, ascendance, and hierarchy through painted stripes, and eventually the image fell away leaving me to navigate the implications of the vertical and the horizontal by painting only the orientations with stripes.” A phrase in the art writings of John Berger—“Home is where the vertical meets the horizontal”—helped her as she began to explore the physical, psychological, and spiritual dimensions of her discovery. “To me,” she says, “this phrase refers to a sense of spiritual well-being: finding ground in which to prosper.”Peterson, W: "Taizo Kuroda". Gerald Peters Gallery, 2007.

Nankivil is an artist-member of the Traffic Zone Center for Visual Art, a prominent artist cooperative established in 1993 in the historic Warehouse District of downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she maintains her principal painting studio and private press."Members of Traffic Zone." [http://www.trafficzoneart.com/artists/default.htm Traffic Zone Center for Visual Art website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717083707/http://www.trafficzoneart.com/artists/default.htm |date=2011-07-17 }}.

In 2004, Nankivil was awarded the Jerome Foundation Fellowship (New York City & St. Paul)."MCAD/Jerome Foundation Fellowships." [http://www.mcad.edu/showPage.php?pageID=1226 Minneapolis College of Art and Design website]. In 2011, Nankivil received an Artist Initiative Grant in Visual Arts from the Minnesota State Arts Board (St. Paul), with funding provided by Minnesota's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund."Minnesota State Arts Board FY2011 Grantees." [http://www.arts.state.mn.us/grants/2011/2011-awarded-ai.htm MSAB website]

Nankivil's paintings and original prints are exhibited nationally and internationally and are found in many public and private collections, including the Minneapolis Institute of Art; Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis; Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul; North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona; Borusan Contemporary Art Museum, Istanbul, Turkey;"Borusan Collection" [http://www.borusancontemporary.com/homepage.aspx Borusan Contemporary Art Museum website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111103250/http://www.borusancontemporary.com/homepage.aspx |date=2012-11-11 }}. Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis; U.S. State Department, Washington, D.C.; Clinton Foundation, New York; Surdna Foundation, New York; and others.

Nankivil is represented by Marlborough Fine Art, New York. [http://www.thomasmccormick.com Thomas McCormick Gallery], Chicago; [http://www.shearburngallery.com William Shearburn Gallery], St. Louis; [https://www.heathergaudiofineart.com Heather Gaudio Fine Art], New Canaan, Conn.; and [http://www.highpointprintmaking.org Highpoint Editions], Minneapolis. Streetside Press of Minneapolis is the principal publisher of her monoprints and digital print editions.

• Albright, Audrey. [http://www.missoulaartmuseum.org/files/documents/exhibits/OutWestReview.pdf "Artists Capture the Great American West."] Review of "Out West: The Great American Landscape." [http://www.worldandi.com The World and I], Mar 2007.
• Briggs, Patricia. "Lisa Nankivil." In Lisa Nankivil: Betty & Veronica. Chicago: McCormick Gallery, 2005.
• Fallon, Michael. "Future Anterior: Lisa Nankivil." Art Papers (January–February 2010): 61, illus.
• [http://www.mnoriginal.org/art/?p=3251 "Lisa Nankivil"] in MN Original Episode #226. Twin Cities Public Television (KTCA-TV), St. Paul, Minn. February 17, 2011.
• Makholm, Kristin. "Lisa Nankivil." In 2005 Jerome Foundation Fellowship Exhibition. Minneapolis: Minneapolis College of Art and Design, 2005.
• Minneapolis Institute of Arts. {{YouTube|GJzujB_kzGI|"Highpoint Editions—Decade One."}} Exhibition video. September 24, 2011.
• Peters, Lisa N. Lisa Nankivil: Lines of Inference, New York: Spanierman Modern, 2011.
• Peters, Lisa N. Lisa Nankivil, New York: Spanierman Modern, 2012.
• Peterson, William. Taizo Kuroda, Kumiko Namba, and Lisa Nankivil. Santa Fe, New Mexico: Gerald Peters Gallery, 2007.
• Rahn, Meg. [https://archive.today/20130414230450/http://www.highpointprintmaking.org/editions/nankivil_lisa/ "A Conversation with Artist Lisa Nankivil."] Interview. Presstime (Fall-Winter 2008): 4–5, illus.
• Scott, Amy. Out West: The Great American Landscape. Exh. cat. Washington, D.C.: Meridian International Center, in cooperation with the National Art Museum of China, Beijing, 2007.

• [http://www.nankivil.com/ Official webpage]
• {{YouTube|pbURRly57Qs|Interview with Lisa Nankivil in her Minneapolis studio, Twin Cities Public Television (KTCA-TV)}}

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