Nanette Newbry was born in Pensacola, Florida. She received her BFA in visual and performing arts from the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and studied with artists Allan Kaprow, Eleanor Antin and Barbara Krueger. For over 20 years, she has been a performance artist, painter, graphic designer and owner of Studio 2055, an awarding-winning design firm.

Artist's Statement

"In my recent work, I’m interested in how memory shapes our view of ourselves and our relationship to others. With color and formal elements, I create a visual language from my own memories and experiences. They are a study in contrasts, between thoughts that are remembered or forgotten, with suggestions of objects that you may know or have seen. I build up multiple layers of wax and pigment, some smooth or rough textures, which over time tell a story of a certain time and place.

Like memories, the passing of time plays an integral part of the work. With encaustic, I’m able to revise the work, perhaps scrape the entire surface and build it up again. So oftentimes the initial concept for the work changes midstream and evolves into something that is new and exciting to me. It is a process of discovery."

Solo Exhibitions

2010 Image and Memory, Ivanffy-Uhler Gallery, Carlsbad, California
2007 Back, Forward & Everday, N. Newbry Gallery, Carlsbad, California
2006 New Work, N. Newbry Gallery, Carlsbad, California
2005 Miswanting, N. Newbry Gallery, Carlsbad, California
2004 New Work, N. Newbry Gallery, Carlsbad, California
2003 INSIDE/OUT, City of San Diego, Benjamin Public Library, San Diego, California
2003 INSIDE/OUT, N. Newbry Gallery, Carlsbad, California
2002 New Work, Bakerloo Gallery, Carlsbad, California
1980 An Affair of the Art, Aesthetics Collection, San Diego

Selected Performances

2006 Sandboxed, Carlsbad, California
2005 Henri Bobo Comes and Goes, Del Mar, California
2002 CrossFire, Leucadia, California
2002 Henri Bobo and Ground Zero, New York, New York
2000 Henri Bobo and Rhoda, Encinitas, California
1996 Face to Face, Arthouse Gallery, California
1996 Tree Circle, Group Participation Performance Work, Julian, California
1995 Tell Me Your Secret, Del Mar, California
1995 The Virgin Bride, San Diego, California
1994 The Bride Visits the Psychiatric Hospital, La Jolla, California
1993 Meat, Mandeville Center, La Jolla, California
1991 My Mother Myself, SDSU Art Gallery, San Diego, California
1990 Henri Bobo Joins the Group at Jerome Rothenberg’s, Encinitas, California
1989 The Bride, Encinitas, California
1988 Sarah Stewart Tells Her Story, UCSD, La Jolla, California
1988 She’s a Schizophrenic, La Jolla, California
1987 Appropriated Pie, Encinitas, California

Selected Group Exhibitions

2009 San Diego Art Institute, Balboa Park, California
2008 San Diego Art Institute, Balboa Park, California
2007 The Contemporary Scroll, San Diego Art Institute, Balboa Park, California
2006 St. Tropez Gallery, San Diego, California
2006 City of Solana Beach, Public Library, Solana Beach, California
2005 San Diego Art Institute, Balboa Park, California
2004 San Diego Art Institute Juried Show, Balboa Park, California
2003 Regional Exhibition, San Diego Art Institute, Balboa Park, California
2002 C-Note Exhibition, San Diego Art Institute, Balboa Park, California
1996 Group Exhibition, Arthouse Gallery, Carlsbad, California

Memberships

Encaustic Art Institute
San Diego Art Institute/COVA
Women’s Caucus for Art