Nina Chanel Abney 'Digital Blue' Available
Artist: Nina Chanel Abney
Title: Digital Blue
Medium: Looping Digital Video Encased In Acrylic
Size: 11.4 x 7.5 x 1 Inches
Edition: 50
Prices: $3,500
Nina Chanel Abney is an American artist born in Harvey Illinois in 1982 who now lives and works in New York. She earned her BFA from Augustana College in 2004 and her MFA from Parsons School of Design in 2006. Abney is celebrated for large scale paintings that merge representation with abstraction to mirror the frantic pace of contemporary life. Her canvases burst with bold color blocky figures and disjointed narratives that address race celebrity religion politics sex and art history without offering tidy resolutions. Instead she compresses time space and identity creating scenes where information overload feels both chaotic and spontaneously ordered.
Influenced by Matisse the cubists and Harlem Renaissance painters Abney updates historical modes of visual storytelling for the internet age. Her breakthrough came with the 2007 diptych Class of 2007 which portrayed herself as a police officer and her white classmates as inmates a work now in the Rubell Collection. She was the youngest artist included in the touring exhibition 30 Americans and has since mounted major solo shows at the Nasher Museum ICA Miami and Palais de Tokyo. Public commissions include a basketball court mural and a forthcoming facade at Lincoln Center. Whether working on canvas paper or an outdoor wall Abney invites viewers to confront systemic injustice while savoring the seductive power of color and pattern.
