Nancy Kirk — The Field Room, El Prado

Some artists find their place. Nancy Kirk found hers by following what the land asks of her.

Trained in Florence, she built a practice in New York and Connecticut painting intimate interior murals — Hudson River School landscapes commissioned for the private dining rooms and residences of music producers, financiers and collectors who wanted something made specifically for how they lived. Along the way she contributed original paintings to Broadway’s Golden Theatre restoration and collaborated on the Jacobs Theater alongside master craftspeople who set an uncompromising standard.

She brought all of it to Taos.

Working from The Field Room — her studio and gallery ten minutes from the center of Taos, on land that has always belonged to something larger than any of us — Kirk works in oil, abstraction, woodblock, collage and assemblage.

Her Small Magic collection of oil miniatures carries the density of work made at a much grander scale. Her abstract paintings pursue what she calls productive ignorance — the hand knowing something the mind would only argue with.

The Field Room is open by appointment. If you’re coming to Taos, come a little further

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