Nancy Buchanan studied at the University of California , Irvine during its first years of existence. There, she was deeply influenced by artists Robert Irwin and Larry Bell, who encouraged their younger peers to see the possibility of art making in all spheres of life. She first used video as an outgrowth of performance, but quickly realized its unique possibilities. In addition to producing video, her practice includes installation, drawing, artist's books and work with fabric. Common to all media she employs is her investigation of social myths and power relations, and an interest in how these are camouflaged. She was a founding member of several seminal artist's collectives: F-Space Gallery, Grandview Gallery at The Woman's Building, Los Angeles , and Double X, a feminist art network. In addition to producing her own work, Buchanan has also curated and reviewed exhibitions. She received four National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships for work in Performance and Video, and in 1996 received a Rockefeller Fellowship which enabled her to complete Developing: The Idea of Home, an interactive CD-ROM.



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