Nancy graduated from University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana with a BFA in Fine and Applied Art/Painting. She has worked over 38 years as a professional picture framer but has been an artist most of her life. Now she devotes all of her free time to developing and creating her artwork to share with the world.
'She is not really alive unless she is creating.'
In our day-to-day life, we overlook and do not appreciate the beauty in the little things around us. The subject matter of many of Nancy's paintings and drawings are derived from her close-up (macro) photographs capturing the sometimes-overlooked beauty and abstraction of nature, plants, organic formations, and human anatomy/physiology. Her popular Internalscape images depict a surrealistic network of internal organic forms, cells, vein/artery-like shapes intertwining, interconnecting, and layered like a protective living network.
We are all connected.
These same forms and shapes in nature repeat themselves from a molecular and cellular level (plants, humans, animals, organic objects) up to a larger scale (land formations, satellite images of Earth, infinite space and galaxies.)
Vulnerable, connecting, disconnecting, concealing, enclosing, protecting. Intricate textured layers hiding, securing, releasing, holding back. The internal/external battle, continuous visual and non-visual conflict many of us face...these are all words to describe Nancy's artwork.
'My belief as an artist is that life is one continuous challenging journey and I should NEVER get too comfortable, satisfied, adapted or relaxed in my environment. I need to constantly re-evaluate myself and be open to change. Always question my surroundings, challenge my visions, push the limits... never let anything or anyone hold my creativity back.'
Nancy Mueller joined Pixels.com Licensing on September 7th, 2008.
