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George Billis Gallery is pleased to present Nina Tichava: Weavings - the gallery’s fourth exhibition of the artist’s abstract paintings. The exhibition continues through February 13th.
Tichava’s paintings are about relationships; she is interested in the interactions between materials and methods as well as the color and spatial relationships that naturally develop in process.
Using painting and printmaking techniques, she interweaves drawing and collage with a variety of media. Simultaneously painterly and constrained, her paintings are composed of complex layers, many of which are over-painted and concealed. A prominent element of this new body of work is the application of countless layers of stripes, painstakingly painted with a brush and individually applied strips of tape and paper and used to create screens and patterns. She describes her work as “abstract painting with botanical and architectural references”, as the pieces suggest natural forms (leaves, branches), man made structures (buildings, windows, lights) and patterning both natural and designed (woven fabrics, strata of earth, pixels).
Her works are emotional and imperfect, and as objects they embody her response to things mass produced and idealized; perfection is unattainable. The paintings are collections of moments from daily life: combined glimpses, thoughts, memories and objects. By design she is inaccurately trying to describe not only what things might look like, but also how they feel, which is where the beauty in it lies for her as an artist.
Nina Tichava was raised in both rural northern New Mexico and the Bay Area in California. She was influenced by her father, a construction worker and mathematician —and by her mother, who is an artist and designer. The reflections of these dualities—country to city, pragmatist to artist, nature to technology—are essential to and evident in her paintings. Nina received her BFA from California College of the Arts [+ Crafts].
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Tichava’s paintings are about relationships; she is interested in the interactions between materials and methods as well as the color and spatial relationships that naturally develop in process.
Using painting and printmaking techniques, she interweaves drawing and collage with a variety of media. Simultaneously painterly and constrained, her paintings are composed of complex layers, many of which are over-painted and concealed. A prominent element of this new body of work is the application of countless layers of stripes, painstakingly painted with a brush and individually applied strips of tape and paper and used to create screens and patterns. She describes her work as “abstract painting with botanical and architectural references”, as the pieces suggest natural forms (leaves, branches), man made structures (buildings, windows, lights) and patterning both natural and designed (woven fabrics, strata of earth, pixels).
Her works are emotional and imperfect, and as objects they embody her response to things mass produced and idealized; perfection is unattainable. The paintings are collections of moments from daily life: combined glimpses, thoughts, memories and objects. By design she is inaccurately trying to describe not only what things might look like, but also how they feel, which is where the beauty in it lies for her as an artist.
Nina Tichava was raised in both rural northern New Mexico and the Bay Area in California. She was influenced by her father, a construction worker and mathematician —and by her mother, who is an artist and designer. The reflections of these dualities—country to city, pragmatist to artist, nature to technology—are essential to and evident in her paintings. Nina received her BFA from California College of the Arts [+ Crafts].
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George Billis Gallery opened its second location in the Culver City area of Los Angeles in 2004 and marks its 15th year in the Chelsea arts district in New York City. George Billis shows work by both emerging and established artists. For more information please contact the gallery at:
2716 S. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90034
T: 310-838-3685
F: 310-838-3438
email: [email protected]
www.georgebillis.com
2716 S. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90034
T: 310-838-3685
F: 310-838-3438
email: [email protected]
www.georgebillis.com
