The Board Room, 2008, is part of the Rubell Family Collection in LA.
About:
Bottle Service, 2013.
New York-based artist Nina Chanel Abney (Chicago, 1982) is known for placing figures based on real people into imaginative worlds to create large genre paintings that deal with controversial issues regarding race and gender. She is interested in revealing racism that is hidden in the everyday, and loosens the dialogue around race and sexuality. Nina is represented by Kravets|Wehby Gallery in New York and has been included in The Incomplete Paris exhibition curated by Hubert Neumann, The Glamour Project at Lehman Maupin Gallery, and the next generation of exciting artists by Paper Magazine. Nina was featured in W Magazine’s Art Issueand currently has a painting on view at the Brooklyn Museum as part of an exhibition of recent acquisitions. She is featured in the publication Vitamin P2: New Perspectives in Painting, as well as the Rubell Family Collection’s 30 American’s exhibition which traveled from the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., and is currently at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia.
Beauty in the Beast, 2009.
“I am from the Midwest, specifically the south suburbs of Chicago. Back when I was in college, I feel like unless you attended the Art Institute of Chicago, most wouldn’t have much experience with contemporary art. I didn’t even really understand how artists made money at that time, let alone what performance art or an installation was. I just think with most things, especially in the creative fields, if you reside in the heart of the city or close proximity to, you are exposed to much more and even “ahead of the game” in that you are right in the midst of the action.”
Let’s go Hoop, 2013.
“When I first moved to New York, I think my lack of exposure to contemporary art and the “art world” gave me a naivety that allowed me to approach my work with a complete sense of freedom. But it also pushed me to rely on my intuition, and I have been working intuitively ever since.”
