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FIGMENT 2009-Dancing Ribbons
Have you crocheted your plastic today?
The Dress Series evokes the doll clothes and paper dolls of childhood. The departure comes in the materials chosen: woven plastic discards that have been burnt and manipulated. Pins pierce the waist. Some are wrapped. It is an embattled femininity.
Cape: The Good News, was recently at the Queens Museum, part of the exhibit FRAMING AIDS 2008. The exhibit ran from November 30th to December 22nd.
Untitled I, 2009; 5' x 7"; plastic, cloth and glue
Feminine Multi-Purpose Liturgical Garment,
2008--9, 25" x 45", knit plastic
Shirt, work in progress, 2009,18" x 24,"knit plastic, glue, paper, ink, acrylic
NEW PAINTINGS

Nancy Rakoczy has a MA from Hunter College in Secondary-Ed English and a BFA from Pratt Institute. Ongoing education includes advanced poetry workshops at the Unterberg Poetry Center at the 92nd Street Y. You can view my recent work here:
http://www.chsbs.cmich.edu/creative_writing/nancy_rakoczy.htm
http://www.chsbs.cmich.edu/creative_writing/nancy_rakoczy2.htm
In addition, my poetry has been published by Harlin Jacque Publications, The National Catholic Reporter, Olivetree Review, Perspectives and can be found at:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1141/is_26_40/ai_n6029422
http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/ology/perspectives.shtml,
http://www.lindamichellebaron.com/rakoczy/index.html

You can see my visual work on the Queens Museum, Queens Artists Index and at the Long Island City Artists site. I recently participated in Decompression 2008 at Floyd Bennett Field, where I scorched, burned and melted my "Feminine Multi-Purpose Liturgical Garment." I was also at Figment, on Governor's Island in June and ArtSpy's "Hooked," hosted by the Queens Council of the Arts and QPTV. I've exhibited my work at the Queens Museum's, Decompression 2007, the Meat Space Gallery in L.I.C., NY, as part of the Queens Council of the Arts, Project Diversity, the Skylight Gallery in Brooklyn, and the Master Arts Gallery in Manhattan. She lives in Queens.

Want to see me on cable? Click here for the latest schedule of "Hooked." Queens Council of the Arts sponsors the half-hour artSpy shows on QPTV.

Racist IV: Liberation Offered to the Racist by a Native American Saint and Angels, 2008, 20" x 30" acrylic and cut paper on acid free illustration board
Obverse Living Room II (with TV), 2008; 30" x 40" acrylic and cut paper on acid free illustration board

Let us dismantle evil
and take down its scaffolding

Let us pull down its planks
unbolt it at the seams and
return the material to its owners

Uncovering the hidden tower
revealed to sudden daylight
unfenced in the raw air

Grey twilight gone.
barbed wire removed
rusty nails pulled out
one
by
one

Passersby question:
the ‘for rent’ sign is gone
lights are back on.

Original owners moved back in
the mail: return to sender.


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