Roy Nydorf: Four Decades

 

Four Decades, the first major survey of the work of Roy Nydorf, constitutes a mid-career retrospective of this beloved Greensboro artist and Guilford College professor whose works figure in the collections of the Hirshhorn Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Honolulu Academy and the Weatherspoon Art Museum among others.

This exhibition will present Nydorf’s investigations and mastery of several mediums, including drawing, printmaking, painting and sculpture. This exhibition will consider Nydorf as not only an artist of multi-faceted technical virtuosity but who has consistently produced work informed by a humanist approach to the subject.

Viewers will explore Nydorf’s themes and imagery as well as the development of his figurative style based upon a rhythmic use of line. The human form, first explored during the artist’s formative years in New York, dominates Nydorf’s oeuvre, through solitary portraits, groups of tobacco pickers and bathers, and mythological scenes. A large selection of the artist’s figurative carvings in relief and in the round will be seen together for the first time.

Curated by Edie Carpenter

 

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Additional Resources

To view our Press Release, click HERE.

To check out more artwork in this exhibition, click HERE to view our Flickr album.