Nancy Guzik

Artwork submitted for bid 
at our September 4, 2011 auction:

"SQUASH & A TEA CUP"
20"x16",Oil
Gallery Price: $5,500

  For the past fifteen years Nancy Guzik has been quietly perfecting not only her skills, but the focus of her work, and the result, in one critic's words, is something like Joy.  She brings to the world of Art a warmth unseen in painting for generations.  Her works are pure refreshments for the spirit because she paints as she lives - with honesty and an abiding faith in the goodness of life.

    As a young girl raised in the mid-west, she grew up fascinated by the everyday life around her, and the impulse to create pictures arose almost naturally.  Encouraged by her mother, Nancy's personal development and growth as an artist led to her first professional work in the field of Television Animation - mainly directed to the needs of children - which she pursued until receiving a scholarship to study advanced painting at the American Academy of Art in Chicago.  Under the experienced direction of the Academy's legendary William Parks, her attention turned to the more powerful and expressive opportunities of Fine Art, particularly oil painting.

    "The knowledge and skills she acquired after several years of study with Mr. Parks were further enhanced by studies in anatomy and sculpture at the Lyme Academy in Connecticut.  However, it was her close association and ensuing relationship with the noted painter Richard Schmid, that brought her painting to it's full potential.  Working with him on a daily basis at the Palette and Chisel Academy, fine-tuning her procedures, traveling and painting extensively together throughout Europe and North America, she experienced painting at its most intense level. She recalls the greatest lesson learned - "Richard taught me to always strive for excellence and never to settle for less!  Painting will always be a learning experience", she says - "learning to give what is inside me in the most beautiful way possible."  Nancy and Richard married in April of this year 1998.

    Although Nancy's technique reveals a consummate maturity, something of the child within her invariably comes through her paintings.  Certainly, the depth of Nancy's work cannot be simply described in words because her subjects are everyday people and things.  It is her quiet wisdom and enthusiasm for being alive that transforms the ordinary into something more.  Rarely has Art come to us from so pure a spirit, from a woman who has struggled, and is well aware of risk, but unwilling to surrender hope.  Indeed, though she may paint the commonplace - her close friends, a handful of flowers, her dog, a young lady in quiet thought - her underlying themes are always of faith and trust and love.

Website: NancyGuzik.com

Gallery Representation

Talisman Gallery, Bartlesville, OK

Pam Driscol Gallery, Aspen, CO

Settlers West Gallery, Tucson, AZ

West Wind Fine Art, Manchester Center, VT

Selected Shows and Special Exhibitions

Governor's Invitational Art Exhibitions, Loveland Museum, Loveland, CO

One Woman Show, Tallisman Gallery, Bartlesville, OK

Two Women Shows, Pam Driscol Gallery, Aspen CO.

Special Exhibitions, Palette &Chisel Academy, Chicago, IL

Minnesota Miniature Show, Minneapolis, MN

Awards

Three Gold Medal Awards, Palette & Chisel Academy, Chicago, IL

First Prize Award, Midwest Pastel Society

Publications

"Shared Wisdom", Feature Article - Southwest Art Magazine, June 1998

"Artist Worth Watching, Paintings by Nancy Guzik" - Art Talk

"Grapefruit with Apple Blossoms", Featured oil by Nancy Guzik - Danny's Travels, Art Talk

"Works by Nancy Guzik", Feature Article - American Artist Magazine

Education, Private Study, and Workshops

1998     Painting Workshop with Nancy Guzik, The Loveland Academy of Fine Arts, Loveland, CO

  1993 - '94 Old Lyme Academy of Art, Old Lyme, CT

1986 - '90 Private Study with Richard Schmid 

1985 - '90 The Palette & Chisel Academy, Chicago, IL

1983 - '87 American Academy of Art, Chicago, IL

Private & Corporate Collections

Oil Paintings by Nancy Guzik have been acquired for Major Private and Corporate  collections throughout the United States, England, Australia, New Zealand, and India.

 

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