Nancy Gail Ring paints singular moments of life with an intentionally varied approach that addresses questions of uncertainty and transience.
She has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards for her fine art, such as a Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation/NEA Fellowship Award, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Artists’ Fellowship Award. Her paintings and drawings have been exhibited at The Drawing Center, New York, N.Y., The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, N.Y., Gallery Henoch, New York, N.Y., and P.S. 122 Gallery, New York, N.Y., among others. Her work is included in prominent public collections such as Prudential Insurance, Coca Cola, Phillip Morris, and others.
Nancy is also a former pastry chef who supported her painting career for several years in Manhattan’s two and three-star restaurants. She chronicled some of these experiences in her critically acclaimed memoir, Walking On Walnuts , Bantam, 1996, filled with thirteen of her drawings, (national media, regional bestseller.) On her book tour, she appeared on many television and radio shows and lectured at the Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C.
Nancy is a graduate of Syracuse University School of Visual and Performing Arts and currently she is an MFA candidate in painting at The University of the Arts , Philadelphia, Pa., where she was nominated for the Robert Motherwell Foundation Dedalus Award in Painting. Nancy is the co-creator and artist for the blog, www.jellypress.com: Old recipes, Modern Life. A transplanted Manhattanite, she lives in northern New Jersey with her twelve-year-old son.