Protester of social ills and champion of women and equality, Nancy Spero made richly layered, bold visual statements. She freely appropriated images from Art History as well as contemporary media to engage the viewer in her discussion of issues and current events.
The following excerpt gives a broad overview of her life's work:
"Her work since the 1960s is an unapologetic statement against the pervasive abuse of power, Western privilege, and male dominance. Executed with a raw intensity on paper and in ephemeral installations, her work often draws its imagery and subject matter from current and historical events such as the torture of women in Nicaragua, the extermination of Jews in the Holocaust, and the atrocities of the Vietnam War. Spero samples from a rich range of visual sources of women as protagonists—from Egyptian hieroglyphics, seventeenth-century French history painting, and Frederick’s of Hollywood lingerie advertisements. Spero’s figures co-exist in nonhierarchical compositions on monumental scrolls, and visually reinforce principles of equality and tolerance."
This site also has a very informative video clip interviewing Nancy Spero!
http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/nancy-spero
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