Butterflies and Zoot Suits on 125 Street

Mixed Media, Handmade Paper

30 x 23

$2500

Nachmany has worked at a studio on 120th Street and Lenox Ave for ten years. Her work is inspired by the colors and sounds of West Harlem, as well as its history and its people. She has displayed her art at numerous community places in Harlem (restaurants, cafes, clubs, etc.). Ten artworks she created in 2018, by commission of Columbia University, of West Harlem, Manhattanville, and Morningside Heights, are on permanent display at the university's Faculty House on West 117 Street.

As Nachmany has exhibited her work across different communities, she has observed that collecting objects and preserving memories from the past occurs in varied forms across many different cultures and communities. The act of collecting represents a universal desire to preserve fragments of the past through its physical manifestations, while continuing to move forward in a rapidly changing world with new stories and new keepsakes. The techniques of mixed-media and collage allow memories to be recreated and repurposed within a community, a family, or on an individual level.

In her art, Nachmany explores this dichotomy by relating these objects through new forms that give these images and stories additional layers, recreated meanings, and new beginnings. ​