Fine Artist Nicora Gangi Loans Five Paintings to King’s

In August, fine artist Nicora Gangi lent five paintings to The King’s College for use in the 2017-2018 academic year. Educated at the Hartford Art School, Montclair State College, and Syracuse University, Gangi was a professor of art at Syracuse University for 29 years. Gangi is regularly published in artists’ books on pastel paintings. Her recognitions include the Pastel First Place Award Still Life (2013), the Heliker-LaHotan Foundation Residency Award (2012), and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award (2006).

Gangi’s artwork—four pastels and one oil—will hang in the Executive Suite on the fifth floor of The King’s College. Vice President for Student Development Eric Bennett said, “It’s appropriate to begin the academic year with new artwork on our walls. Pablo Picasso said that ‘the purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.’ And while everyone will undoubtedly have varying opinions about the artists we showcase year to year, Nicora Gangi’s work provides us with yet another opportunity to demonstrate how the people at The King’s College think independently together.”

Gangi has lectured regionally and nationally as a visiting artist at universities and artist’s guilds. She is represented by MME Fine Art in New York, by Novado Gallery in Jersey City, N.J., and by Bender Gallery in Asheville, N.C.

Gangi writes, “My aim as an artist is to be the observer; I hope to penetrate this material world with eyes and heart to realize and visualize through Realism the ultimate corporeality at its core. Jesus is alive and sovereign. Through Him, I aim to render that aesthetic experience of being overwhelmed, filled with awe at something so majestic it evokes a sense of the One, Holy, and Mighty God, who created everything, seen and unseen.”