Artist’s Statement
I am in love with the tactility of art, I love the way it feels to hold a pencil, to pull it across a deliciously smooth sheet of paper. I love seeing the ways the inks, oils, watercolors move, shine, stain and mark paper and canvas. I love the way they smell. I love that I have at least 1,000 pencils, and still I want more.
Above all, I treasure and desire that when you look at my art, that we’re sharing at the very least a small part of that experience. That when you look, and I hope you spend a lot of time looking, that you see that the fascinations that I have are not merely with the tactile materials, but with the places that the edges, lines, shapes, colors, gestures, marks take you to.
Recent Work
Charak-Nancy-2
GEOMETRICS-15
PLANAR VIOLATIONS (15)
Gesture #008
Tendrils Series #1007
Geologies 9045
Bonitas Canciones Series II: #8613
Caput Mortuum
BLACK_0430_300
Sympathy for the Devil, #6, watercolor, oil stick, graphite on 90# Stonehenge, 22"x30"
How Many Miles to Babylon #4, oil, oil wash, polyester thread, copper roofing nails on unprimed cotton canvas, 18"x24"
Quickies, watercolor, graphite on clayboard, 8"x8"
Arc 522, graphite, oil stick on acrylic primed masonite, 24”x30”
Untitled, 22”x30”, watercolor, graphite, oil stick on 140# Fabriano Artistico.
Expectation, 36” x 36”, graphite, oil stick, pastel on primed cotton canvas.
Waterloo_04351
Seasons, 36"x36" oil stick, pencil, graphite on canvas, 2012
IMG_49901
4826_3001
DidoAeneas11_L1
OrpheusEurydice03_L1
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Watercolors_00541
I Found It Just Like You Find Anything Else, I Stopped Looking, 44x30in., pencil, prismacolor, oil wash, oil stick on 90lb. white Stonehenge, 2009

Exhibition and Commission Inquiries Welcome
Nancy Charak is always happy to exhibit her work and visits to her studio are available by appointment.
Exhibition and commission inquiries are welcome.
Or, call Nancy at 312/451-4268 to schedule a studio visit.