Nancy Scheinman

Biography

Nancy Scheinman pursued formal training at the Washington University School of Fine Arts in St. Louis, where she received a Ford Foundation Scholarship, her B.F.A. with honors in 1980 and an M.F.A. five years later. Her most recent work has been devoted to paintings on copper and wood, as she continues to demonstrate her gift for taking inspiration from diverse sources and for employing collage to derive maximum expressive effect.

The resulting paintings challenge the notion of historical landscape painting with natural physical changes of the material. With her innovative method of mixed media paintings, Scheinman is able to create fresh, dazzling, and otherworldly images.