Water Street Studios to host Nancy Carrigan retrospective

The main gallery at Water Street Studios in Batavia will host a retrospective art exhibit of the highly regarded, late Chicago-area artist and poet, Nancy Carrigan, who passed away in July of 2014, at the age of 81.

Nancy was a true multimedia, multi-disciplined artist. In addition to painting, she was also a published poet, sculptor, fiction and children's stories writer, editor, costume and set designer, and print maker. She worked mainly out of her Warrenville home studio for 26 years.

She once admitted to being frustrated by having to decide on which of her many pursuits to concentrate. She said, "I once read that someone told Leonardo da Vinci that if he'd stick to one thing he might amount to something. I'd like to be three people so I could paint more, write for children more and write more poetry."

The gallery will be showing a collection of Nancy's paintings, prints, drawings and sculptures. The exhibit will open with a reception from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, May, 13, and continue until June 4.

The show will be on view during regular gallery hours: 1 to 9 p.m. Fridays and noon to 4 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays at 160 S. Water St. in Batavia. Visit www.waterstreetstudios.org.