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Nina BovassoPurple Orb 2 with Spinning, Flying Disks2018
2018
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This is a unique work on paper made in 2018 measuring 20 x 25 inches from my ongoing "mound" series. This "Purple Orb" has a "companion" work ,made at the same time, the same size and with the same palette of colors.
Most of my paintings are on paper. A series I have been continuing with for almost 30 years is the gravity bound "mound" works. These are sometimes a precarious architecture and sometimes an exacting one. Sometimes the mounds are more of a pile. sometimes a combination. I enjoy endlessly problematizing the possibilities. In 2011 I looked at ways of moving away from the gravity, and the mounds sometimes were hovering or sometimes sprouted legs. The mounds had mobility. They are perhaps a kind of self portrait, as it is an instinctive shape for me to conjure. I like to play with subtle nuances of paint varying the surfaces, the kinds of marks and the visual time of the paint strokes. I use a pen an ink to get a stiffer line, which contrasts with the looser brush stroke. An accretion of marks is literally building the surface and structure within the mound shape. Imaginary architectures sometimes resemble an urban landscape or extended tree house city.
- Creator:Nina Bovasso (1965, American)
- Creation Year:2018
- Dimensions:Height: 20 in (50.8 cm)Width: 25 in (63.5 cm)Depth: 0.2 in (5.08 mm)
- More Editions & Sizes:uniquePrice: $4,000
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- Gallery Location:New York, NY
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2262212150292
Nina Bovasso
Nina Bovasso was Born and raised in NYC, NY, where she currently lives & works. Her work is held in many museum permanent collections in the United States, and other public & private collections in the US and abroad. Ms. Bovasso attended NYC Public School and was raised by a single working mom who worked as a textile designer. Living in the Murray Hill neighborhood of NYC, close by her grandmother who taught her to sew and design clothes. Both of Ms. Bovasso's parents were painters, who met while students at The Cooper Union School of Art in NYC. Ms. Bovasso received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, attended the Skowhegan School of Art in Maine, & completed a MFA in Painting from Bard College. Predominantly a maker of works on paper, " I was influenced by her mother who was a textile designer, creating designs with gouache on paper. My attempt at making designs whilst a student at SFAI, played a huge role in defining my own voice as an artist. Using gouache on paper to make these designs, one day breaking free of the limitations prescribed for design making, I started doing my own thing. This “breaking free” I feel, also plays a role in the content of my work, when I speak of anti-design or pattern gone amok.” Bovasso's work has been exhibited internationally, solo exhibitions include Josee Bienvenu Gallery in NYC, Sala Uno in Rome, Cleveland MOCA, Ohio, University Museum at SUNY Albany, New York; Galerie Schmela, Dusseldorf, Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam, and Clementine Gallery, New York, NY. Group exhibitions include Out of Site, NewMuseum of Contemporary Art, NYC and Painters and Poets, Ulrich Museum, Wichita, KS. She is the recipient of several awards and grants, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, Louis Comfort Tiffany Artist Grant, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and twice recipient from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. In 2012 she was awarded a MacDowell Colony Fellowship. Her work has been reviewed and collected widely in the US and abroad. Bovasso held temporary academic appointments at the University of Georgia, California College of Art, University of Virginia, and University of Tennessee, and presented lectures about her work at numerous universities, including Princeton University, Northwestern University and the Cornell.
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