NANCY KUBALE •   RUTHERFORDTON, NC

Nancy Kubale is a full-time ceramic and mixed media artist living 50 miles southeast of Asheville in the foothills of Rutherford County, North Carolina. She earned her BFA in Mixed Media from Minneapolis College of Art and Design. In addition she studied clothing construction at the Fashion Institute of Technology in NY, ceramics at Penland School of Crafts and sculpture at Florence Academy of Art. She lives with her husband, who has retired from performing arts management, and her studio mate Bo, a blonde hound dog mix. Her current life and work are capivated by ubiquitous truths, ordinary eurekas and everyday enlightenment. Kubale exhibits regularly at high-end art fairs throughout the Eastern and Midwestern U.S., including SPECTRUM during Miami Art Week, the Philadelphia Museum Fine Craft Show, The Milwaukee Art Museum Lakefront, The Mint Museum Potters Market Invitational, American Craft Exposition, CraftNEWYORK, the Washington & West Palm Beach Fine Craft Shows, as well the Baltimore and Atlanta American Craft Council shows. She participates in numerous group and solo gallery exhibitions throughout the U.S., has works in several permanent museum collections and has work published in six books, as well as numerous magazine articles. Kubale is represented by Blue Spiral 1 in Asheville, Abel Contemporary Gallery in Wisconsin and Bennett Galleries in Knoxville. She is a 2008 and 2011 North Carolina Regional Artist Grant recipient.

"My work contemplates our shared existence and individual experience. I am intrigued by how we live and the ideologies we embrace. They become notes and/or reminders of ubiquitous and universal truths - ideas that are insightful and transformative. My figures have been influenced by Greek & Roman sculpture, Catholic statuary, and indigenous folk art. And my ideas are inspired by poetry, secular philosophy, sacred texts, as well as modern culture. I guess I should just say I am inspired by observing and paying attention. May it be of benefit."

 


ASSOCIATED EXHIBITIONS

MAIN GALLERY
January 6 - February 22, 2023
Narratives
MAIN GALLERY
July 2 - August 27, 2021
SHE
LOWER LEVEL GALLERY
September 4 - October 30, 2020
reaching
Online Exhibition
April 30 - July 31, 2020