The outline of a hand amid spiritual symbolism and vivid color over a copper surface bring to mind ritualistic practices from far away lands.  Nancy Aleo has combined elements from her research and travels to create a sense of primitive beauty.  The symbols are flashes of recollections, reflections and dreams brought to reality, but maintaining a sense of mystery. 

The subject of this piece and the materials used juxtapose the spiritual images of the ancients with the technology of the present.

Mixed Media Enamel Paint on Copper Computer Circuit Board.

Nancy Aleo is an Associate Professor in the Studio Foundation Department at the Massachusetts College of Art and is President of the Board of Trustees of the Attleboro Arts Museum. She has exhibited nationally and internationally and maintains a studio in the Boston area.  Ms Aleo earned her MFA and BFA degrees in ceramics and has focused on mixed media drawing and painting for over 20 years.

Most recently her mixed media drawing was included in the Massachusetts Artists 2007 exhibition at The Brush Art Gallery, Lowell, MA.  Her work will be exhibited at the New England Biolabs, Ipswich, MA in December, 2007.

Ms Aleo is a past recipient of Painting Fellowships from the Massachusetts Artists Fellowship Program (1988) and the New England Foundation/National Endowment for the Arts (1994).  She was a grant recipient of the Berkshire Taconic Artist Resource Trust in 2000 and received a Faculty Development Fellowship from the Massachusetts College of Art in 2006.

She has been traveling and studying in Mexico for almost two decades including co-leading a student group to Oaxaca, Mexico.