Works of Art

In 2010, Nagy volunteered to work in Devescer, Hungary where alumin sludge spilled from the factory reservoir and destroyed three nearby villages. Nagy took over 200 photographs during the volunteer work and published a book in paperback and ebook formats entitled "Red Mud" that documents the biggest environmental disaster in Europe caused by human negligence.

Her photographs and drawings will be exhibited in April 2011 at the 1091 Madison Avenue Gallery.

A major retrospective show will be exhibited in Berlin in 2011.

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Provoking our sensibilities and conscience about the environment, the exhibition is the introduction of Polluters, a series that consists of digitally manipulated photos and mixed media pieces. The altered images are embedded in an epoxy solution to create a final three-dimensional effect. The artist calls her unique light boxes "Capsules".

An alternate perspective emerges in her photographs of industrial landscapes as a way to reinterpret the same subject matter and to challenge "complacence".

All living things on Earth needs oxygene. Some living organisms produce this essential gas and allow us to correct our mistakes in destroying the Earth. The artist offers a wide range of ideas how to produce clean energy in the future.

These works were collaged together in the Pollution series.

Combination of the artist's elements into a higher being and an achievement of new aesthetics and meanings.

Small units of simple structures.

Products, which are positioned above the focal point: Man/Totem.

Sculpture installation with metal, wood and plastic boxes. A presentation of a conflict between developed, underdeveloped and modern society.

Nagy's location for the show was a 2000 year old catacomb, built into an art gallery for her show in which she emphasized on three different developments of social structures. Her mediums of expression were metal, wood, and plastic. Her symbolic language was based on the 4 principle elements Earth, Fire, Water and Air. The units were variable.

The wooden masks, the third world, were exhibited together as a river flow that Nagy combined with Achat stones, which have healing powers. They were connected with low current wires but the wires were not in contact with modern life that she symbolized with transparent plastic boxes.

Installation and works on paper. In 2002 the American Embassy awarded Nagy with a prize and an exhibition in Budapest.

Nagy created a time-line from 8:40am to 11:00am. On that evening she joined a large crowd on 14th Street where people were holding candles and building a shrine for the memory of those who died in the World Trade Center. She lives in Greenwich Village and she saw the second plane hit the building. She started to put this series together right after the events as a document.

Deoxyribonucleic acid. The imprint of genetic coding in human nature. This series of artworks represents all of the varieties and combinations of the mind.

Remembrance of the Communist dictatorial regime:
Nagy created a symbolic bubble to represent communism. She also philosophically created an object called the "corkscrew," which is in present in almost all paintings in the series. The "corkscrew" is an invisible force that will finally break the bubble at the end. She used modular iron boxes that fit into variable combinations, like legos. This series visually deals with two extremes: monotonous repeated elements and dramatically shrinking spaces.

Published book with a short story about the accelerated time versus human conditions. In 2000 Rudy Giuliani, Mayor of New York City selected one of the oil paintings from this series for a special show, where Nagy won the first prize of being one of the most important immigrant artists to represent New York City life.

"The creator of this book-both writer and illustrator-takes the reader into a World where symbols take charge and control over Man: painted stars, half moons, various types of crosses and others. Man becomes the slave of symbols until He discovers that He has to return to the simple laws of Nature".