WAYNE NOWACK | THE ALCHEMY BENEATH THE ZODIAC IS THE FERMENT ABOVE DESCARTES

Nowack’s career began with zany box constructions, collages and ink drawings which employ an “everything but the kitchen sink” mentality, merged with the emotion and materiality of the ‘60s era. These cerebral explorations gave way to more pastoral pen drawings, watercolors and canvases of the natural world, reminiscent of American Regionalist painters like Edward Hopper and Charles Burchfield. The rigor and density of Nowack’s work mirrors that of Allan Stone’s collection and gallery program, who represented the artist from 1961-1981. Nowack received a Danforth Foundation Grant in 1963 and a National Endowment for the Arts Grant in 1973. He has been exhibited at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art, Minneapolis Museum of Art, and the Rose Museum at Brandeis University. His work is in the collections of the Fort Worth Museum, Des Moines Art Center, Williams College, Skidmore College, and Yale University, as well as the Joseph Hirshhorn Collection.