“He really walked that space and understood it in terms of his own body scale and what light did in it,” she said by phone. His mother, Bernice (Chasanov) Nonas, was an elementary-school teacher. Mr. Nonas did not start out as an artist. He studied literature and anthropology at four schools — the University of Michigan, Lafayette College in Pennsylvania, Columbia University and the University of North Carolina. During his 10 years as an anthropologist, working with Native peoples in Canada and Mexico, he developed a sensibility about space from the people he studied.

Source: New York Times May 24, 2021 16:45 UTC