Venda Mother and Child 36 x 48″
Acrylic & Mixed Media on Canvas

ARTIST STATEMENT
SKIN DEEP: THEN AND NOW (2020)

South African born painter/printmaker JACKIE NACH studied art at The Johannesburg School of
Art, South Africa, Boston University, The Decordova Museum School, UCLA and The Brentwood
Art Center.

A WOMAN OF SOUTH AFRICA achievement award in 1996 recognized her work by it’s powerful
socio-political commentary. She has been a guest speaker on several television programs.
In 2001 JACKIE NACH was amongst international artists invited to Florence, Italy by Dan Weldon
and Ron Pokrasso to explore the new medium of non-toxic solar plate lithography.
Her work incorporates Oils and acrylics, hand-embellished lithography, needlework, and soil from
various countries including the red soil and gold mine sand from Johannesburg, South Africa,
volcanic soil from Panama and sand from the Egyption desert. She works on canvas, plastic
trash bags, traditional print papers as well as hand-made papers of zebra, giraffe and elephant
dung.

Amongst the many international collections, corporate collections include Bank of America, The
Pillsbury Company,UCLA and British Petroleum
“My parents escaped discrimination and death from Eastern Europe and immigrated to South
Africa. The irony was loaded as they came to a country where discrimination was the law of the
land.

Thus I grew up.
What is there to say when various forms of racism pervade every aspect of daily life? No matter
the individuals’ genetics, histories or geographical coincidence, is attraction and comfort to like
and familiar about survival, or ingrained prejudice? Are socio-political and/or economic issues to
blame?

Using the weight of culture on the superficial for information, I hope to magnify the bittersweet
nuances of human nature, paying loving tribute to the many issues and subjects. Tools from my
experience illustrate the truth, as I know it.

To eliminate fear of the foreign, unfamiliar or unknown, my work explores the many mediums that
best reflect mans’ natural instincts.
In search of the ultimate markings that best describe the human spirit, our responsibility to one
another and the well-being of this planet in the universe, I make art”.

ARTIST STATEMENT
SKIN DEEP (2010)

My parents escaped discrimination and death from Eastern Europe and immigrated to South Africa.  The irony was loaded as they came to a country where discrimination was the law of the land.

Thus I grew up.

What is there to say when various forms of racism pervade every aspect of daily life?  No matter the individual genetics, histories or geographical coincidence, is attraction and comfort to like and familiar about survival, or ingrained prejudice? Are socio-political and/or economic issues to blame? Using the weight of culture on the superficial for information, I hope to magnify the bittersweet nuances of human nature, paying loving tribute to the many issues and subjects.  Tools from my experience illustrate the truth, as I know it.

To eliminate fear of the foreign, unfamiliar or unknown, my work explores the many mediums that best reflect mans’ natural instincts.  In search of the ultimate markings that best describe the human spirit, our responsibility to one another and the well-being of this planet in the universe, I make art.

BIO
Born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1945, Jackie Nach trained as a Graphic Artist and worked in advertising and promotional design. She immigrated to the United States in 1973, where she resumed her studies in Fine Art through Boston University and the DeCordova Museum School while freelancing as a Graphic Designer, Interior Design and Promotional Consultant.

After moving to Los Angeles in 1977, she continued her studies in drawing, printmaking and photo etching at UCLA as well as figurative and non-objective abstract expressionist painting at the Brentwood Art Center. From 1993 – 1998, she established a studio in Weston, Connecticut where she lived and taught art for five years. During that time Ms Nach was a member of the Silvermine Guild of Artists, Art/place and on the Board of Trustees of the Silvermine Guild Arts Center.

In 1996 she received a ‘Women-of-South-Africa Achievement Award’ from the South African Consulate.  After returning to Los Angeles in 1998, she established her studio in Santa Monica, California.  She was a faculty member of the Brentwood Art Center where she introduced innovative methods of printmaking.

Jackie Nach has been a guest speaker on several television art documentaries.  She was Chairperson on the Board of Directors and Curator for ‘Sweet CHAIR-ity’ – Design House, the Venice Art Walk and on the Board of Directors for the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park.  She is an active member of FOCA (Fellows of Contemporary Art)& on the Boards of CTGA (Music Center Theatre Group Ass.), SCC NMWA (So. Calif. Chapter, National Museum of Women in the Arts) & USC Hillel Art Gallery.  Amongst many private collections, corporate collections include the Bank of America, Pillsbury Company and British Petroleum.

Calling the Venda Drum-Maker Acrylic & Mixed Media on Canvas 36 x 48