ABSTRACTS
I strive to distill form until all that remains is the vital energy, the eye of the hurricane; still, yet present and alive. This energy is created in the relationship between the elements of the painting or assemblage with each other and the negative space. Hans Hofmann wrote: "Nature's purpose in relation to the visual arts is to provide stimulus - not imitation - from it's ceaseless urge to create springs all life, all movement and rhythm, time and light, color and mood - in short; all reality in Form and Thought."
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It is not accidental that this place carries that name — or that the work made here carries it too. A field, in the scientific sense, is where careful observation happens. Where specimens are gathered, examined, and rendered with precision and wonder in equal measure. Where the seen world is recorded before it slips away.
That is what happens here.
The Field Room is Nancy Kirk’s working studio and gallery — a private space in El Prado, New Mexico, ten minutes from the center of Taos, on land that has always belonged to something larger than any of us.. It is where the miniatures are made: small oil paintings on panel, each one a kind of field study — rendered with the eye of a natural historian and the hand of someone who has painted theater walls in Florence and restored Broadway’s gilded ceilings.
The scale is intentional. Small things demand full attention. They ask you to come close.
Every piece that leaves here carries its provenance — title, medium, dimensions, date, and signature — on a label affixed to the back. It came from somewhere specific. It was made by a specific person, in a specific light, looking at a specific thing. That particularity is the point.
Studio visits are by appointment. If you are coming to Taos, come a little further.
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