Nancy Morgan Barnes and Company
November 6 - 29, 2025
Opening reception, Thursday, November 6, 5-7pm
Featuring: Nancy Morgan Barnes, Robert Barnes, Victoria Barnes, Tim Conte and Read Pate
ARTIST STATEMENT
Both Bob and I come from middle class and Midwest backgrounds with similar comfortable childhoods. Art was neither encouraged nor discouraged. Floral or landscape reproductions were on our walls and in the homes of our neighbors.
As parents, we dragged our kids to openings, galleries and museums (sometimes willingly). Our friends were frequently other painters or collectors, and, as a result, conversation circled around art and art related subjects. All of our kids have an interest in the visual arts in very different ways because of their shared background. They are designers, crafters, painters and serious collectors.
I am grateful to Greenhut Galleries for allowing me to have this exhibition which includes my two sons in law, my daughter and my husband… I am interested in seeing how our works look in a shared space.
~ Nancy Morgan Barnes
Nancy Morgan Barnes is a narrative realist. Often the concept of the narrative has led us to make-believe worlds of the ideal and a daydreaming of better times. Through the composing in all of her works, one finds explicitly rendered chaos and order….things are not as they appear.
Born in South Bend, Indiana, Barnes received her undergraduate degree from St. Mary’s College in South Bend, Indiana, and her graduate degree from Indiana University, Bloomington in 1971. She has taught at DePauw University and the Indiana University Bloomington. Barnes has won numerous merit awards and prizes, including a Good Idea Grant from the Maine Arts Commission. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Indiana University Art Museum and Indiana State Museum.
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