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"Committed to sharing social realities through fantastic, expansive forms, Nina Chanel Abney is an artist possessed of an iconic style and wit. Through stylized, cubistic and highly charged painterly symbols, she references radical traditions of graphic design and street art to communicate urge...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Miami, FL : Cleveland, Ohio : New York, NY :
Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami ; Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland ; DelMonico Books, D.A.P.,
2025.
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| Summary: | "Committed to sharing social realities through fantastic, expansive forms, Nina Chanel Abney is an artist possessed of an iconic style and wit. Through stylized, cubistic and highly charged painterly symbols, she references radical traditions of graphic design and street art to communicate urgent political and cultural realities with immediacy to the largest possible audience. Abney's paintings and collages use dynamic color and form to draw viewers into complex narratives. Big Butch Energy/Synergy features Abney's recent exhibitions at ICA Miami and moCa Cleveland. In these works, Abney mines cinematic and media representations of student Greek life to explore how gender perception and performance is inspired by the legacies of social ritual and visual culture. The complex compositions reference scenes from popular slapstick comedy films such as National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) and Porky's (1981), while citing traditions of Baroque portraiture and fraternity composites. Inspired by her experience as a masculine-of-center woman, with this body of work Abney asks how viewers gender a figure in a work of art."-- |
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| Item Description: | Published on the occasion of the exhibitions: "Nina Chanel Abney: Big Butch Energy," organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, November 28, 2022 - March 5, 2023; "Nina Chanel Abney: Big Butch Synergy," organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, January 27 - June 11, 2023. |
| Physical Description: | 118 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781636811635 1636811639 |