River of Sound: Photographs & Drawings

by Nancy J. Parisi

September 3 - 30, 2010

Opening Reception: Friday, September 3, 6-9pm

Nancy J. Parisi has been a practicing, full-time photojournalist, and journalist for over two decades, specializing in events, political work, and portraits. She’s a regular contributor to Buffalo Spree magazine for whom she writes lifestyle features–she's Advertising Photographer there. Nancy attended University at Buffalo where she crafted an arts management curriculum via Black Mountain College II, while earning an Honors English Department B.A. and an unofficial photography minor. In 2005 she completed a Masters of Fine Arts degree at Parsons School of Design (a division of New School University in Manhattan), as part of their first-ever class earning that degree at the school. For fifteen years, Nancy created a photo essay column, What Has Happened, centering on Buffalo’s cultural life, for Artvoice, where she was photo editor. When not working on deadlines for a diverse range of clients, Nancy works on three ongoing bodies of work: photographs of green spaces in Manhattan, the industrial landscape of Buffalo, N.Y., and intimate studio portraits of lush organic objects with or without models. She has been making graphite drawings as long as she can remember.