Nancy Wait
Paintings
Brooklyn New York

Nancy Wait was born in Chicago and grew up in Manhattan.She began her professional life as an actress in England during the 1970s, performing in film, TV and theater.Then she returned to New York and took up painting, a career that included commissioned portraits, commissioned building renderings, and a series of visionary paintings.She moved to Park Slope in 1992 to raise her child, and painted pictures of the Slope in the mid-nineties, becoming one of the founders of an artist group called Brooklyn Visions.By the end of the nineties, she decided to go back to college and write her memoir, A Mask With Wings, a book about growing up with dreams of an acting career and what happened during her sojourn in England. It is now waiting to find a publisher.  For more information about A Mask With Wings,  please visit www.nancywait.com.

Solo Shows:1996 Resnick Gallery - LIU, Brooklyn Campus, 1995 - Kalio Gallery & Restaurant, Brooklyn, 1994 - Montauk Club, Brooklyn; 1982- Montauk Club.

Group Shows: Brooklyn Visions: 1998- Boro Hall, 1996 - YWCA - Atlantic Ave.; 1996 - Conservatory, Botanical Gardens; 1996 - Fence (Outdoor) Show, Botanic Gardens; 1995 Montauk Club, Brooklyn.

Other Group Shows: 2000 - “Dream Journey,” a multi-media slide show (Assoc. for the Study of Dreams) - Washington, D.C.; 1984 - FederalPlaza, NYC (Park Slope Artists Council); 1984 - Franklin Gallery, SC; 1983 - Keane-Mason Gallery, NYC; 1982 - Salmagundi Club, NYC; 1980 - Muse Gallery, Clearwater, FL.

Books: 1996 - Interviewer: Artists’ Visions, Artists’ Voices, Nine Interviews Chronicling The Nature of Art and Creativity; Luna Pub. 1986 - Illustrator: Torah, The Greatest Gift of All, Ness Press, Bklyn.

Teaching: 1985 - New YorkSchool of Interior Design; 2002 - The Educational Alliance

Clients:
Portraits: Alan Greenspan (1982);Mohammed Ali (1980); King Hassan Durani I, Afghanistan (1980)
Renderings: Sotheby’s, Helmsley Spear, Douglas Elliman, Sholom & Zuckerbrot, Allan Riley, Sackman Enterprises,etc

Education:  Pratt Institute; Art Students League; The RoyalAcademy of Dramatic Art; Carnegie-Mellon; The New School University (BA 2000); GoddardCollege (MFA 2002)

Organizations: Brooklyn Visions; Art Students League