Nancy Calef Gallery

2D: My oil on canvas "Peoplescapes" are inspired by my fascination with people everywhere today facing global issues, and satisfying my discipline for drawing figures, color and composition. I create a visual narrative by weaving together personalities, places and current events. With a skewed photojournalist’s style, I try to capture an important historical period. Each painting, while filled with considerable detail, unfolds uniquely, without plans or sketches.

The paintings evolve as I follow my universal language. May it never stop.

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Ladies Luncheon oil on canvas 36 " x 36 "

Lifecycles oil on canvas 44" round

To depict the earth and the spirit realms, I integrated astrological signs and various
spiritual figures and symbols along with some recognizable characters; i.e., Gandhi plays
chess with Timothy Leary, while mother earth gives birth.

Kangaroo Court oil on canvas 30" x 40"

Sold Down the River oil on canvas 36" x 24"

Anna Nicole Smith is more important to the networks than Katrina; while Libby becomes flotsam of the administration’s continuing ride on the back of the military industrial complex right over the American people.


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		View Latest Exhibition ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM Still Wading oil on canvas 36" x 48" Betty Friedan leads womankind to its destiny across the bridge of control. The Triple Goddess, symbol of female lifecycles, announces powerhouses Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, slaughtered Benizir Bhutto and pregnant girl in Pope’s folds before the world stage. World Music oil on canvas 48" x 36" Music is a universal language. Supremes oil on canvas 36" x 48" The Statue of Liberty is on trial, while the historical figures in the gallery represent good and evil, from Clarence Darrow, Thurgood Marshall, Gandhi, Dalai Lama, Abraham Lincoln, to Nixon, Bush, Cheney, Rove, Bin Laden, Sadam Hussein, among others. CNN oil on canvas 36" x 48" The costume party rages on as the tanks come over the bridge. The crowd is sprinkled with individuals prepared for the carnival of war. Carnival oil on canvas 36" x 48" *Indulgence* oil on canvas 48" x 36" *Four Twenty* oil, mixed media & paper on canvas 40" x 30" *Deaf, Dumb & Blind* oil on canvas 36" x 48" Blues Festival oil on canvas 36" x 48" *Double Trouble* oil on canvas 36" x 48" October 32nd oil on canvas 36" x 48" Bill and Hillary Clinton out on the town surrounded by familar personalities, including Monica, Bush, Clarence Thomas, Janet Reno, Linda Tripp, Nancy Reagan hiding behind Ronnie mask, Newt Gingrich, and a young Bin Laden. Homeland Cafe oil on canvas 36" x 48" How does an American beach town adapt to homeland security? Millennium Models oil on canvas 48 " x 48" The fashion world reflects our new culture of the War on Terror, while the statue of liberty is cracked in a background of destruction. *Air Show* oil on washing machine side 36" x 34" Extra-Inner oil, paper, coins, metal, found objects on canvas 36" x 36" State of the World oil on canvas 36" x 60" Through my travels and experience as resident artist at the State of the World Forum, I've been inspired by the transforming power of unifying people from various cultures, religions, and professionals to address global issues. *War Room* oil, paper, plastic, found objects on canvas 24" x 30" *In the Spotlight* oil on canvas 36" x 48" On-location filming addresses America’s obsession with media and celebrity. The stars and understudy are portrayed in black and white to emphasize their unreality.