{"id":4672,"date":"2008-03-28T16:25:56","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T16:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.compeung.org\/?p=4672"},"modified":"2017-10-05T09:39:14","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T09:39:14","slug":"artist-nancy-elliott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/compeung.org\/main\/artist-nancy-elliott\/","title":{"rendered":"Nancy Elliott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nancymizunoelliott.com\/Welcome.html\" class=\"broken_link\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_1\">My father is from Newfoundland and my mother is from Japan. They are without-a-doubt middle class, have their high school diplomas, and if I could get them to vote, they would probably vote Republican. My mother, a former bartender, is a mutual funds wizard who thinks Sylvester Stallone is a comic genius. My dad, a retired Chief Master Sergeant, watches Animal Planet and weekly polishes his three motorcycles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_1\">Me? I still can&#8217;t figure out if I am downwardly mobile or a bourgeois bohemian. I hide the fact that I have an advanced degree and wonder out loud what fine art has done for me. I can&#8217;t stand group politics, yet would be labeled a bleeding heart liberal. An old therapist thought I was gay because I spent an hour (actually 50 minutes) ranting about homophobia. And if another person labels me &#8220;exotic,&#8221; I&#8217;ll give them a karate chop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_1\">My point? Obviously, I am a mixed bag when it comes to education, class, gender, and ethnicity. And consequently, I am a hybrid artist when it comes to subject matter, medium, and language.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_style_1\">Due to these apparent contradictions, I am in the ritualistic process of constructing an identity-trying to align my personal experience with outer social, political, and sexual realities. In my attempt to create urban folk art (\u00e1 la The Ramones), I use common materials and talk about everyday situations that make up a life. In general, my work deals with intimacy, power, feminism, and human behavior. I confront embarrassing moments, unpleasant feelings, and difficult situations, while maintaining a wry humor that tempers the discomfort of my subject matter. Perhaps this is related to my childhood obsession with the game Truth-or-Dare, and later, my worship of John Lennon&#8217;s <span class=\"style\">Plastic Ono Band<\/span>. The images come to me as reactionary flashes to what I have heard, seen, or experienced. I literally cough them up. Hence m<span class=\"style_1\">y work is a visual diary, brimming with sweet suffering and sap, that rests in the space between memory and imagination. Through the use of confessing characters and tattletale<\/span> personas I guide the viewer down a multi-layered narrative path.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nancymizunoelliott.com\/Welcome.html\" class=\"broken_link\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nancymizunoelliott.com\/Welcome_files\/1-Nancy%20Elliott.jpg\" alt=\"nancy\" width=\"418\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nancymizunoelliott.com\/Welcome.html\" class=\"broken_link\">www.nancymizunoelliott.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My father is from Newfoundland and my mother is from Japan. They are without-a-doubt middle class, have their high school diplomas, and if I could get them to vote, they &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/compeung.org\/main\/artist-nancy-elliott\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>explore this artist(s)<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nancy Elliott<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[79],"class_list":["post-4672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-painting-drawing","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/compeung.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/compeung.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/compeung.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/compeung.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/compeung.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4672"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/compeung.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5914,"href":"http:\/\/compeung.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4672\/revisions\/5914"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/compeung.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/compeung.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/compeung.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/compeung.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}