Mira Dancy

Throughout her vivid, large-scale canvases, Mira Dancy renders female nudes in sinuous, calligraphic lines and dense, geometric compositions. The artist—who also makes neons and shower curtains featuring similar motifs—draws on a feminist ethos. Her teachers included Amy Sillman and Elizabeth Murray. Dancy subverts the long art historical tradition of objectifying women as she presents her figures with exaggerated sex appeal, a strong sense of self-possession, and near-mythic appearances—at times, her kaleidoscopic nudes seem more goddess-like or archetypal than human. Dancy has exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, Shanghai, Mexico City, Paris, London, and Berlin. Her work belongs in the collections of the Columbus Museum of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Yuz Museum.