Joy Nagy
Joy Nagy was born in New York City and is an interdisciplinary artist who works in a variety of media, including drawing, painting, and sculpture. Nagy earned an Associate of Applied Science degree at Fashion Institute of Technology where she majored in Apparel Design and has since studied at The New York Studio School with Graham Nickson, The Art Students League in New York City with renown anatomist Frank Porcu, and currently at the Greenwich House Pottery. For over a decade, she taught painting techniques to New York City middle and high school students as a teaching artist through the School of Visual Arts' Education Department Liberty Partnership Program.
Joy Nagy’s series Family Matters evolved when she inherited the contents of four storage units from her aunt and mother after her brother passed away. Over 200 textiles handkerchiefs, silk scarves, handmade dresses and ornamental flowers, photographs and objects filled old suitcases and cardboard boxes. Nagy’s tall narrow paintings are created using pastel and gouache on paper that are inspired by the color and tactile quality of her silk scarves. Nagy explains, “This work represents a reappraisal of values. To me my brother’s death was not only about his loss but, about the entire family and its interrelationships. The paintings, assemblages and installations include objects and photographs that record my family’s issues of immigration, hard work and love.”
Nagy is the author and illustrator of the book Chocolate Astrology, published by Clarkson Potter a division of Random House and Build Your Own Alphabet published by Harry N Abrams. Her visual artwork has been shown in solo and group exhibitions by museums and galleries in the United States and abroad. She has been awarded fellowships at nationally renowned artist residencies— including Vermont Studio Center, The Jentel Artist Residency Program, Ox-Bow School of the Arts, and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council residency on Governors Island.
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