Nina Bovasso
Earth Boobs 16x20 inch Watercolor Painting
2023

Name: Earth Boobs 16x20 inch Watercolor Painting
Brand: Nina Bovasso
Price: 2800 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

This is a new painting in the ongoing series of anthropomorphized shapes using the dispersed watercolor pigment technique. Painted on Arches Watercolor paper, this unique work is 16 x 20 inches. watery blue & earthy browns like red clay & various green hues are loosely painted into shapes, then are accented with the dense hit of magenta, blue and green. I began this series in 1995 where the shapes were free floating abstractions. When the phenomena of pareidolia made itself present and these shapes would resemble animals or breasts, I followed the idea and different bodies of works emerged that I continue to cultivate.

Creator:

Nina Bovasso (1965, American)

Creation Year:

2023

Dimensions:

Height: 20 in (50.8 cm)Width: 16 in (40.64 cm)Depth: 0.2 in (5.08 mm)

Medium:

Watercolor,Archival Paper

Movement & Style:

Contemporary

Period:

2010-

Condition:

Gallery Location:

New York, NY

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU2262212847802

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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.