NORA SPEYER : IN MEMORIAM – A CELEBRATION OF LIFE’S WORK

 

It is with great sadness we note one of our artists, Nora Speyer’s recent passing.

Nora was a gifted artist, special human being, and a good friend. Nora had numerous solo and group exhibitions with Denise Bibro Fine Art from the late 80’s in our gallery in Soho and later in our Chelsea gallery until we closed our brick and mortar in 2022. You can view her work on our website and are other platforms.

Nora was a consummate artist, supporter, and advocate of her art community. With her equally gifted artist husband, Sideo Fromboluti, they carved out a special world for themselves in the arts.  Always anchored in Greenwich Village/Soho, but also part of the thriving communities of Woodstock in earlier years and then lastly for many years the artistic community of the Cape Cod area with there base in their summer home and studios in Wellfleet Maine. They were some of the founding artists that made up the respected the Landmark Gallery in Provincetown. Also founded by  noteable artists as Motherwell, Leo Mansoetc, and Sidney Simon to name a few.

Both Nora and Sideo were in the village working  in the mix with some of the greatest artists of the “Cedar Tavern” days.  Although, in the melee of the abstract abstraction movement with artists like Jackson Pollack and Joan Mitchell, they continued to champion human and natural inspired forms. Their Pensylvania painter roots never left them.

Nora was an extremely gifted artist. She was not only a fine painter, but had a skilled hand in drawing- particularly  the human form. She had a keen sense of form and space. She worked steadily throughout the years, often with life models in her studio. The richness of her figures enhanced her pictorial land and human compositions. Her love for the mystery of nature and human physiological content was also enhanced by her robust use of layers of paint. She often worked in series. Denise Bibro Fine Art highlighted her exploration of dreaming through her  Dream Collage Series. Denise Bibro Fine Art also showcased her Flora Series depicting the richness of flora and fauna, as well as many other exhibitions of her allegorical works. Nora’s rich compositions of variants of light and shadow  successfully captured the element of time, place and subject matter. There is always multilayers of nuance and oeuvre in her works.

She successfully employed her well informed eyes and mind, and imbued her work with the best information she got from viewing and experiencing the works of artists like Bonnard, Ingress, and Monet. She amalgamated all her years of seeing and experiencing and made her own.

She will be missed dearly.