Nina Chanel Abney Royal Flush
Nina Chanel Abney Royal Flush by Natalie Y. Moore is a comprehensive catalogue that accompanies the exhibition of the same name, showcasing a ten-year survey of the artist’s work. Published by the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University in 2017, this edition spans 123 pages and is presented in English. The book highlights Abney’s role as a leading figure in contemporary narrative figurative painting, exploring the intricate social dynamics of urban life through her vibrant and multifaceted art.
Readers will find a detailed examination of Abney’s large-scale paintings, collages, and watercolors, which draw inspiration from diverse sources such as mainstream media, animated cartoons, and hip-hop culture. The catalogue delves into how her art engages with pressing social issues, employing humor and satire to comment on contemporary attitudes and inequities. With connections to modernist artists like Robert Colescott and Romare Bearden, Abney’s work is characterized by its dense iconography and relevance to the fast-paced nature of the Digital Age. This publication serves as a significant resource for those interested in art criticism, individual artists, and the evolving landscape of American art.
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This catalogue accompanies the exhibition Nina Chanel Abney: Royal Flush, a ten-year survey of one of the most provocative and iconoclastic artists working today. Abney is at the forefront of a generation of artists that is unapologetically revitalizing narrative figurative painting, and as a skillful story-teller, she visually articulates the complex social dynamics of contemporary urban life. Her works are informed as much by mainstream news media as they are by animated cartoons, video games, hip-hop culture, celebrity websites, and tabloid magazines. She draws on these sources to make paintings replete with figures, numbers, and words that appear to have tumbled onto the canvas with the stream-of-consciousness immediacy of text messages, pop-up windows, a Twitter feed, or the scrolling headlines of an incessant twenty-four-hour news cycle. By engaging loaded topics and controversial issues with irreverence, humor, and lampooning satire, Abney’s works are both pointed contemporary genre scenes as well as scathing commentaries on social attitudes and inequities. Abney’s first solo museum exhibition, Royal Flush will be comprised of the artist’s large-scale paintings, along with smaller collages and watercolors. While her work has strong ties to important modernist forebears such as Robert Colescott, Stuart Davis, Romare Bearden, and Faith Ringgold, among others, its distinct and arresting visual articulation of the human condition is inherently suited to the rapid-fire and unceasing quality of the Digital Age. Her dense and colorful iconography, a skillful engagement with serious issues, and the provocative way in which she addresses them has brought this young artist increasing critical acclaim in the contemporary art world. Royal Flush will be on display at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University from February 16 to July 16, 2017.
Contributors: Jamillah James, Natalie Y. Moore, Marshall N. Price, Richard J. Powell, Sarah Schroth
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