Nancy Genn's handmade paper works on view in Venice

Nancy Genn (San Francisco, 1929), a leading figure of American informal art in the second half of the 20th century, is exhibiting six handmade paper works from 1981 to 1988 at Marignana Arte's project room in Venice. The exhibition, titled 'Hand made papers 1981-1988,' explores communication, sensoriality, spirituality, and the interiorization of the human-nature relationship. Genn reconciles opposites such as interiority and exteriority, fullness and emptiness, transparency and opacity, sensation and emotion, mediating between her own feeling, her expressive medium, and the viewer's sensibility. The works feature chromatic absence, alternating thickness and thinness, geometric patterns, and grooves, creating reflective space for the viewer to mirror themselves and their experience.