Nancy Koenigsberg
New York, New York

Quetzalcoatl
fiber, annealed steel, coated copper
12.5 x 32 x 11.5 cm
1999–2002

____Selected exhibitions

  • 5th International Festival of Tapestry and Fiber Art, Beauvais, France, 2002
  • Small Works in Fiber, LongHouse Reserve, East Hampton, New York; SOFA, Chicago; MDS Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2002
  • Connections, 5th International Betonac Prize, Sint-Truiden, Belgium, 2000
  • Survey Fiber 2002, Snyderman–Works Galleries, Philadelphia, 2002
  • Beadwork in America, Haydon Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska, 2000
  • In Our Hands, Nagoya, Japan, 1998
  • Threads: Contemporary American Basketry, The Barbican Centre, London, 1998
  • 9 x 9 x 3, traveling, American Craft Museum, New York, 1998
  • Biennale Internationale de Tapisseries Contemporaines et des Sculptures, Paris, 1998

Nancy Koenigsberg was born in 1927 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She attended Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York, 1981–1983; New School, New York City, 1974–1977; and she holds a BA from Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland, 1949.
My interest is in creating a sense of weightlessness and luminescence by manipulating overlapping layers of narrow gauge wire.