Nancy Spero (August 24, 1926 – October 18, 2009) was an American visual artist. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Spero lived for much of her excitement in New York City. She married and collaborated with performer Leon Golub. As both artist and activist, Nancy Spero had a career that spanned fifty years. She is known for her continuous concentration with contemporary political, social, and cultural concerns. Spero chronicled wars and apocalyptic injure as well as articulating visions of ecstatic rebirth and the celebratory cycles of life. Her profound network of combine and individual voices was a catalyst for the launch of her figurative lexicon representing women from prehistory to the present in such epic-scale paintings and collage on paper as Torture of Women (1976), Notes in Time on Women (1979) and The First Language (1981). In 2010, Notes in Time was posthumously reanimated as a digital scroll in the online magazine Triple Canopy. Spero has had a number of retrospective exhibitions at major museums.
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