‘It Helped Me Maintain a Certain Vitality’: Watch the Late Nancy Spero Explain How Collaborating With Fellow Artists Strengthened Her Work

Nancy Spero, the pioneering feminist artist who
died in 2009, is the subject of a new show highlighting
her works on paper at the Louisiana Museum of Art in
Denmark. It is the artist’s first presentation in that country.

Spero, who was married to fellow artist Leon Golub, is best
known for documenting the atrocities of war and political and
social oppression, which she did in haunting installations, prints,
drawings, and paintings that she made over the course of her
decades-long career.

Yet while Spero’s work details horrific events and injustices,
the artist’s practice was anything but grim. In fact, it was
joyously collaborative.

In an exclusive interview filmed back in 2006 for Art21’s Extended Play series, Spero is seen
working with an assistant in her New York studio. While some
artists blanch at the idea of having another person’s work
intermingling with theirs, Spero said that having artists printing her
imagery “activates the work.”

“I can’t even work now without
working with other artists,” she says. “I really think that has helped me to
maintain a certain vitality.”

Watch the video, which originally appeared as part
of Art21’s “Extended Play” series below. “Nancy Spero” is on view from January 23–March 26,
2020, at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in
Denmark. 

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