Nancy Genn

“Genn has studied the interplay of light and surfaces as it relates to how we experience color in our lives. Such experiences could be from direct sunlight washing the landscape, or dancing on the rippled surfaces of water, or through cast shadows from architecture, or in Genn's case, through the many dream-like layers of fog in the Bay Area around San Francisco, California where she has lived and worked her entire life. The artist, from her vantage point, frequently visualizes the light from the sun and moon through the fog as planes of color, layered one in front of the other. Thus, she observed the light literally operating as thin translucent layers of color within framed structures from the urban architecture and bridges as noted below.”

– From A Life's Study by David Eichholtz, 2024