Nancy Topolski
Nancy Topolski
Nancy Topolski is a mixed media artist who works predominantly in needle felting and collage. She utilizes various materials including electrostatic transfers and vintage papers for collage and discarded objects and second hand/vintage fabric for sculpture.
Life experience, learning and understanding (or lack thereof) are essential ideas in Topolski's work. She has perpetually been engaged in "making" as a means of personal expression and more recently found interest in pursuing understanding through the process of making. Nancy Topolski offers her viewers/readers the opportunity to grow and learn by thinking both visually and conceptually.
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Selected Exhibitions
2023
Inspired by Nature
Main Street Arts, Clifton Springs NY
2022
In the House - solo exhibit
Coolidge St Gallery
Rochester NY
2021
8th Annual Small Works Exhibit
Main Street Arts, Clifton Springs NY
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2020
Wish You Were There
solo exhibition of new work
Gallery 401 Rochester, NY
2018
Fast, Cheap and Easy: The Copy Art Revolution
CEPA Gallery Buffalo, NY
(Contemporary and Visual Arts Center)
2017
Take the Long Road Home
New work by Allen and Nancy Topolski
Gallery Q, Rochester, NY
2016
Right Here - solo exhibit
Thread, Rochester, NY
Fit to be Bound
Everson Museum of Art
Syracuse, NY
2014
Waiting for the World to Change
Gallery 401 Rochester, NY
2012
Start Something - solo exhibit
Thread, Rochester, NY
2010
Bits and Pieces Invitational
Four Walls Gallery, Rochester, NY
Work around the Home - solo exhibit
Record Archive, Rochester, NY
2009
Collage & Assemblage
Schweinforth Memorial Art Museum, Auburn, NY
2008
The Raven & The Writing Desk
New Work by Nancy Topolski and Rachel Hetzel
Studio 354 The Hungerford Building, Rochester, NY
2007
Action/Interaction Book Arts Exhibit
Columbia College Center for Book and Paper Art, Chicago, IL
2006
Made in New York
Schweinforth Memorial Art Museum, Auburn, NY
Reader’s Art 6 – Changing the Wind
Susan Hensel Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2005
Paper Trail
Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
Appendix
Rochester Contemporary, Rochester, NY
(un) Bound
Rochester Contemporary, Rochester NY
2004
Reiterations
Lab Space at Rochester Contemporary, Rochester, NY
Read Around the Room, Solo Exhibition
Gallery at the Art Library, University of Rochester, Rochester NY
2003
There’s No Place Like Home
Rochester Contemporary, Rochester, NY
2002
Fiber Works
Center at High Falls Fine Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
Mourning Matters
Nancy Lenker Topolski & Sarah Webb
Westmoreland County Community College, Youngwood, PA
2001
Hide and Seek; A Traveling Exhibition That Doesn’t Move
Pyramid Arts Center, Rochester NY
Keepings and January Boxes, Solo Exhibition
Gallery at the Art Library, University of Rochester, Rochester NY
2000
Bridging the Gap, Pyramid Arts Center
The Cox Building, Rochester NY,
Received Memorial Art Gallery Award
Members Exhibition, Hallwalls Buffalo NY
1999
January Boxes,Solo Exhibition,
Gallery at the Art Library, University of Rochester, Rochester NY
1999
Members Exhibition, Pyramid Arts Center
Pyramid Arts Center, Rochester NY
1998
Solo Exhibition, Terra Sylvan, Lewisburg, PA
1996
Alumni Artist’s Exhibit, Bucknell Art Gallery,
Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
1994
As She Recalls: An Inquiry About Women and Remembrance,
Points of View Exhibit, Westminster College Art Gallery
1993
Artist’s Books Exhibit, Gallery at the Art Library,
University of Rochester, Rochester NY
1992
Solo Exhibition, Olmsted Gallery,
Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, PA
1991
National Juried Exhibition,
Austin Peay State University, Austin Peay TX
1990
Invitational,Larsen Dulman Gallery, New Hope, PA
1989
Artist’s Books National Juried Exhibition, Zoller Gallery,
Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA
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