NANCY SPERO Feminist Artist SIGNED WE ARE PRO CHOICE A/P screenprint #9/10

  

RARE NANCY SPERO SIGNED AND NUMBERED ARTIST PROOF SCREEPRINT "WE ARE PRO-CHOICE". SIGNED AND LOW NUMBERED ARTIST PROOF #9/10. Screenprint in colors, on pink Japanese laid paper.

THE SILKSCREEN MEASURES 26" L X 16"H (28 1/4"L X 19"H framed) SIGNED ON LOWER RIGHT "AP #9/10 SPERO". Nancy Spero was an American painter and feminist artist. Her expressive work is characterized by its figurative interpretation of sociopolitical and cultural issues, often directly tackling racism, violence, and sexism in contemporary space. "I've always sought to express a tension in form and meaning in order to achieve a veracity, " she had said of her work. Throughout her practice, she regularly shifted balances of power and developed new feminist narratives in spaces there would otherwise be without. Born on August 24, 1926 in Cleveland, OH, Spero's paintings, sculptures, and installations are firmly embedded in the Modernist tradition, utilizing references like Ancient Egyptian sarcophagi and printmaking techniques to provide critical insight into contemporary life. She studied painting at both the Art Institute of Chicago and at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and married the artist Leon Golub. In 1950, with whom she would often collaborate. Her work can be found in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, among others. Spero died in New York, NY on October 18, 2009 at the age of 83.