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Work by Nancy Nowacek: white partition walls with a black ramp and chairs in a hall, plus two views of people stepping through a clear plastic enclosure.
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Nancy Nowacek

Work by Nancy Nowacek: four-photo collage of a blue decorated truck with a rear stage, people inside glowing doors, and the truck at night.
Work by Nancy Nowacek: renderings of a curved blue platform topped with a yellow mesh wall, placed in black-and-white photos of a city plaza.
Work by Nancy Nowacek: tangled orange cords taped to a dark floor, with two smaller views of cords running across the floor.
Work by Nancy Nowacek: crumpled gold metallic sacks on a gray floor, with smaller views of people moving sacks and a stacked pile on stairs.
Work by Nancy Nowacek: three views of people tied together with red-and-white rope, walking in a group and lying in a row seen from above.
Work by Nancy Nowacek: two views of a bare white room crossed by thin red lines, with a person lying and another crawling on the floor.
Work by Nancy Nowacek: people working on laptops around a sandy mound with palm plants in a large industrial hall, plus three wider views.
Work by Nancy Nowacek: saturated, colorized view of Grand Central Terminal's main hall with a few people walking across the floor.
Work by Nancy Nowacek: black card with white text reading Instructions, including "Move forward in a non-specific but carefully considered manner" and "Pause to feel the affect."
Work by Nancy Nowacek: white partition walls with a black ramp and chairs in a hall, plus two views of people stepping through a clear plastic enclosure.
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Nancy Nowacek is an artist whose work is rooted in the ecology of the everyday: the processes, codes, and habits of life. Her practice is focused on the uses of the body as relates to work, architecture and the practice of space. She has shown in New York, the Bay Area, Los Angeles, Canada and Europe. Nowacek teaches at NYU, and has an MFA in Social Practice from California College of Arts. She is certified in personal training by the National Academy of Sports Medicine and lives in Brooklyn.

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